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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BigTee44, post: 1807932, member: 41883&quot;]Yea, I&#039;ll be the first to admit it, I&#039;m all over the place. When it was just Lincolns it was easy. But since I had most of that done I started looking at other coins I wanted to collect. When I first came here I wanted to have an entire US coin series, which I now see isn&#039;t going to be possible. I tried Peace and Morgan dollars but after buying a few graded examples I think that&#039;s the route I&#039;m going to go with that series. I don&#039;t see many nice ungraded examples that don&#039;t look like they have been messed with in some way that are in MS. The coins I&#039;d be putting into the albums for a Barber series would only be a VF-XF. If I want a higher grade coin, at this stage in my collecting life, I&#039;ll buy it slabbed. </p><p><br /></p><p>I just see one type of coin and want to start collecting that, but as you stated, I didn&#039;t look at the prices of the keys in the series, like with the Morgans. I&#039;m still young and learning about coins and I&#039;m not going to consider myself the smartest guy out there when it comes to coins, but I am learning. There&#039;s just so many different beautiful examples of coins it&#039;s hard to stick to one series when I&#039;ve spend basically 22 years looking only at pennies. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not rich by any means and split my coin collecting up with my PM buying. It&#039;s not that I don&#039;t have money to buy coins, it&#039;s just I&#039;ve been wasting money on small value coins and if I do decide to switch to something else, I&#039;m going to lose money. I sold the rest of my raw Morgans today on eBay and only have a few dozen coins left to sell before my collection will be where I want it with the number of coins in it. Then after I have those all out of my home I can start to think of where I want to take my collecting. We found out a few months ago we have a baby on the way<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> so that&#039;s obviously going to be affecting how much I spend on coins and why I was trying to sell some of my coins. Just trying to get things all straight before we add a member to our family and my coins were taking up too much space. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I do appreciate the advise as I know jumping in without really understanding a series is a big risk to myself. I&#039;m sure I overpaid for some of my Lincolns, but the ones I pay more money for aren&#039;t going to be leaving the album. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s nice to look at my album and know it&#039;s complete, but it also makes me want to go back through them and see just how I did when I bought some of these coins long before I joined this forum. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the replies everyone! It&#039;s nice to know there are people out there that still get excited about a complete series. No one in my family or circle of friends are interested in coins so if I told any of them, they wouldn&#039;t care. This place is my coin family and the people here really do want to help others out by teaching them what they need to know to become a better collector. I&#039;m glad to be a member in this forum and have so many wonderful people with so much more experience and knowledge that I could even imagine.&nbsp; When members here are able to tell the die variety and rarity with the most worn coin ever, I know I&#039;m in the right place![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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