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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2636826, member: 27832&quot;]And I&#039;m going to say the exact opposite. Start with the easy coins, and go for the tough ones <b>once you know what you&#039;re doing</b>. Doing the opposite is a recipe for being taken to the cleaners, and ending up with coins that impress a newbie but depress a knowledgeable collector.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins often go up in value, but not, overall, more than the rate of inflation. Ideally, your income will go up over time too. Sure, I&#039;d love to be able to go back and buy gem double eagles at the prices of my childhood -- but how was I going to scrape together $100 as a child, with an allowance of fifty cents a week?</p><p><br /></p><p>This is probably a good time to repost Doug&#039;s favorite chart, showing the aggregate performance of a basket of &quot;tough coins&quot;:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.pcgs.com/PCGSMedia/graphs/indexallgraph.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Do I regret not buying keys in the 1970&#039;s? Kind of, although as above, I didn&#039;t have much to work with. Do I regret not buying keys in the late 80&#039;s, or even &quot;buying the dip&quot; in 1991? Not so much.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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