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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 1240517, member: 18157&quot;]I agree with you 100%. I proudly refer to myself as a &quot;Numismatic Amateur&quot;. The term &quot;amateur&quot; is french for &quot;lover of a pursuit&quot;. Today, an amateur is thought of as someone inferior to a professional, but &quot;back in the day&quot;, professionals carried the bags for the Amateurs. In golf, the US Amateur and the British Amateur were two of the Major tournaments of the day.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a Numismatic Amateur, I&#039;ve never understood the crassness of the professional to cast away coins as &quot;junk&quot; while valuing the pristine, uncirculated coin. Your coins have honest wear; they&#039;ve circulated; they passed between people as history was being made. Collect what you enjoy.</p><p><br /></p><p>The good news is that many circulated coins <b>with very interesting dates </b>can be found at reasonable prices. You don&#039;t have to have them certified or worry about hurting them by putting them into an album to be viewed and enjoyed. At the last Baltimore Coin show, I put together the mercury dime collection from 1923 to 1929 (f-vf...except the 1926S) and didn&#039;t pay more than $5 for any of them...what stories these coins could tell!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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