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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor, post: 737740, member: 5454&quot;]Franklin half dollars are a fairly easy set to complete.&nbsp; I took two years to put together a pretty nice set of them with quite a few having full bell lines.</p><p>But there are 3 or 4 that I still would like to upgrade.</p><p>Doing a type set in a 7070 Dansco but the big old dollar coins are not there.</p><p>I switch around and have several different sets started.&nbsp; Barber dimes in a nice Library of Coins album- several holes yet to fill.&nbsp; My main focus now is on a set of Barber half dollars which is slowly coming along.&nbsp; Nothing special though, mostly G-4 with some AG mixed in. I got a good deal on the 1897-S in rather worn out shape for $50.&nbsp; </p><p>I will continue to pick up nice Buffalo nickels too when I see them.&nbsp; But at this point I am not really trying hard to complete the series.</p><p>&nbsp;One must look hard at the strategy for putting together sets.&nbsp; I am obsessed with collecting sets and maybe that isn&#039;t really smart.</p><p>&nbsp;The sets I have completed probably will never sell for the amount of cash I threw into them.&nbsp; So now my strategy isn&#039;t so much toward completion or filling every hole.&nbsp; This leaves lots of partial sets with missing keys.</p><p>I like the idea of a &quot;box of twenty&quot; and it seems like a prudent way to collect.</p><p>But I don&#039;t know if I could ever break even selling off everything except my 20 best coins.&nbsp; So I am working very slowly on two different boxes of 20.&nbsp; One box is a blue PCGS and the other is a grey box for NGC slabs.</p><p>So far I have not found a good way to sell my excesses.&nbsp; I do not care to pay the eBay and Paypal fees.&nbsp; The forums seem to be too slow to sell or too cheap, or not even sell anything posted at all.</p><p>The most fun I had was selling coins at a few yard sales.</p><p>So yes, when you consider collecting coins for a hobby you must look at how you are going to sell.&nbsp; Some may say they never sell.&nbsp; That is fine for them.</p><p>Everyone has a different approach.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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