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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Detecto92, post: 1569697, member: 75105&quot;]When I 1st got into coin collecting I had a pretty nice collection. I had 5-6 grades Morgan dollars, 4 graded Franklin half dollars, quite a few raw seated, capped and barber coinage, old paper money, and over 1,000 wheat cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>At one time my collection probably came close to $1,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which I sadly had to sell to pay bills. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have slowly been getting back into collecting. For a while there I was buying a coin, admiring it for a few weeks, then selling it. I guess I was a &quot;coin renter&quot;. Nothing wrong with that, I just didn&#039;t have a budget to keep a firm collection. It allowed me to enjoy many coins with a small budget.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I re shifted my focus into album collecting. After doing it for a while, I soon realize album collecting was pretty boring, unless you do a type album. You open the binder, and see rows and rows of the same exact coin. Meh.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally I&#039;m more of a history collector. I like collecting coins that are over 100 years old. I&#039;m not a big fan of moderns, but don&#039;t get me wrong, there are a few pieces I admire, including a few silver commemorative issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also like slabs. Some people don&#039;t but they provide an added benefit. Slabbed coins are more liquid, they protect the coin, and they assign it a grade that is usually spot on.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I try to never pay much extra for a slab unless its a necessity. I&#039;m a firm believer of &quot;buy the coin, not the slab&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now getting back to history collecting, slabbed is not always an option. This is true for lower grade coins. Anything old in a slab will command a premium, of at least $10 So for old, low grade coins, I stick to raw. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a neat little collection. It&#039;s a 1860 Indian Head Cent, the CN kind referred to as a &quot;fattie&quot;, a 1877 seated dime from the Carson City mint, and a 1864 2 cent piece. </p><p><br /></p><p>Pardon the images, my camera does not handle the color brown well. The 2 cent and the Indian cent are a nice brown color.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz257/Phototaker_2010/105_2090-tile.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I paid $12 including shipping for these 3 coins (they were individually listed).</p><p><br /></p><p>Although they are worn, they still carry quite a bit of history with them. The 2 cent piece and the Indian cent might of been carried by a soldier, in the pocket of a high-ranking government official, or in the pocket of my Great Great Grandfather. You just never know. </p><p><br /></p><p>You can squander your entire collecting budget on bullion, on modern coins, but for me, personally I like to collect OLD coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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