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Message:: [QUOTE="BilboBaggins, post: 743667, member: 21742"]I am a beginning collector and was wondering what others though of this probably quite old idea:  Goal: build a date/mintmark collection of the now relatively common coins: Jefferson, Roosevelt, Lincoln memorial, Washington, Eisenhower, Susan B, etc...  Plan: Purchase us mint and proof year sets (likely from local dealers) and place them in Intercept shield albums, for earlier years for which no sets are available or expensive (i.e prior to 1960s/1950s) like the Jeffersons, Washingtons search for high grade coins individually  Rationale: I have used the old approach of searching rolls from banks for quite some time, but it seems to take a lot of time and many of the coins I have collected are still of poorer circulated grade, not to mention lack of proof issues.  Question: is this a smart way to build multiple modern collections at once? Will it be too expensive for what it is really worth? (for example I have priced the entire 1970-1979 mint and proof sets at 500-800 from dealer websites - including the small date lincoln and type I/II 1979); other thoughts... (i.e will I be purchasing sets that have been cherry-picked and have less desirable coins repackaged as the proof sets, will many of the mint sets show too much wear/greying from improper storage?); pitfalls I am not aware of... Thanks in advance for any advice -BB[/QUOTE]