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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;green18, post: 2572158, member: 10103&quot;]I started young, picking coins out of the change, and putting them into albums.&nbsp; I also picked a lot of duplicates (Washington quarters, Franklin and Walking Liberty halfs) out of the change and put them into manila flips.......that stuff I can&#039;t bear to part with.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve got more than a few mint and proof sets.&nbsp; These I don&#039;t want to get rid of either, though the day may come.&nbsp; An open option, but one that I will not profit on.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve got a lot of modern commemoratives and these I will keep also, along with special issues (coin and chronicles, Legacy sets,etc.).</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing I regret is not buying the best quality classic commemoratives I could afford when I started collecting them.&nbsp; I was more interested in obtaining the example coin, and &#039;63/&#039;64 was OK.&nbsp; Now that I&#039;m a little farther on into the collection I find I&#039;m not as satisfied with some of my &#039;original&#039; purchases.&nbsp; These coins will be traded up for better examples.&nbsp; There really is some &#039;horse sense&#039; in what many of the folks on this forum state, and that is, &quot;buy the best example you can afford&quot;.&nbsp; I probably should have (bided my time a bit.&nbsp; Saved some money for it) been more patient.&nbsp; It&#039;s a common mistake many of us make.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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