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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 265184, member: 68&quot;]It sounds like what you&#039;re saying is that &quot;everyone&quot; has $3,000 to spend</p><p>for rare Barbers but not everyone has lots of money to pay for high grades.</p><p>No matter who says it, it tends to sound about the same way.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This isn&#039;t to say that I support spending lots of money on any specific coin.</p><p>People should buy what they like and what they understand.&nbsp; If you can&#039;t </p><p>understand why a coin only slightly better than another one should bring</p><p>a huge premium then don&#039;t buy it.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t understand why coins that</p><p>are worn and widely available should bring a huge premium then don&#039;t buy </p><p>those either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the way I look at it.&nbsp; I can buy a 1980 mint set with a Denver cent in</p><p>it that is just beautiful.&nbsp; Most 1980 mint sets have a disgusting, beat up and</p><p>often spotted Denver cent and finding a nice clean coin with a solid strike will</p><p>take looking at about 100 sets.&nbsp; That makes this a fairly scrce coin.&nbsp; It might </p><p>not be as scarce as a &#039;95-W eagle in MS-70 but it&#039;s on par with a &#039;13-S quar-</p><p>ter.&nbsp; The set will cost seven or eight dollars but you get most of that back if</p><p>you spend the rest of the coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Collect what you want and learn market prices.&nbsp; This means sell some coins </p><p>once in a while.&nbsp; But if you just want to make money with a view to the end-</p><p>ing of the Lincoln cent then it&#039;s pretty tough to beat a nice MS-66 1980-D.&nbsp; Of</p><p>course if you go out to buy this coin it will be a lot easier than looking at mint</p><p>sets and it will cost a little more.&nbsp; You might never get back the premium, but</p><p>it will save you the work of looking for mint sets.&nbsp; If you&#039;re collecting then look-</p><p>ing for the coins is even more fun and that&#039;s what the hobby is really about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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