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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor, post: 854406, member: 5454&quot;]Yes.&nbsp; The set philosophy has to be sacrificed unless you are a millionaire. At this point I am not in the market for a complete slabbed set of anything.&nbsp; </p><p>It doesn&#039;t have to be in a set format at all.&nbsp; How about collecting slabbed and graded key dates?</p><p>I am not into the registry craze.&nbsp; &nbsp; And I am not done building sets either.&nbsp; My raw Barber half dollar set in a Dansco has 14 coins left to finish it.&nbsp; Unless someone comes along and offers me $1,200 [as is]&nbsp; I intend to keep going with it.&nbsp; That is really my main focus now.</p><p>&nbsp;But the progression into slabbed has solid reasoning.&nbsp; And I do like to think of it as a natural progression.&nbsp; What am I gonna do build sets the rest of my life?&nbsp; </p><p>Just as an example, one of the first sets I put together was Mercury dimes minus the 16D and overdates.&nbsp; After that I put together a second and third set of Mercs.&nbsp; Then it was Kennedys.&nbsp; After my first complete set of Kennedys, I put together a second and a third.&nbsp; In fact I have a forth and fifth complete set which both end in 2003.</p><p>Then it was unc Franklins, then another two sets of circ. Franklins.&nbsp; Just last Saturday I got a nice upgrade 1951-S for the unc set.&nbsp; I think I stole the coin for $12.</p><p>My point is that a person can go through life building set after set of raw coins. Or even type set after type set.&nbsp;&nbsp; But is that all there is to coin collecting?</p><p>&nbsp;I respect the opinion of the collector who says he will never own plastic.</p><p>I am not of that opinion however.&nbsp; My opinion is that after doing set after set of raw- there must be something else.&nbsp; Call it a transition if you will.</p><p>Disagree?&nbsp; That&#039;s fine.&nbsp; I need someone to sell all my raw stuff to.&nbsp; LOL[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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