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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CBJesse, post: 1826148, member: 40089&quot;]There are many different ways to do a type set, a type set including major varieties, only error coins, lowball, and tons of other ways. </p><p><br /></p><p>I played around with this for many months but I can say the best choice I have made in this hobby so far, is deciding to specialize in Bust coinage. What I&#039;m trying to say is, pick a series you really like and learn all you can about it. That doesn&#039;t mean you can only buy this one type of coin, if you see a nice coin, buy it! Or you can even continue to work on your type set. But I believe, that you will find yourself picking nicer and nicer coins. Unless you&#039;ve been collecting for many years, or you&#039;re just a genius, it is very hard to be able to accurately grade, cherrypick, authenticate, and find the choice coins of every series, but when you specialize you see all of these problems disappear.</p><p><br /></p><p>One more thing, that may or may not apply to you, I&#039;ve found that, for me (many <u>collectors </u>do not agree), I find my happiness, is more in the study of coins, rather than the coins themselves. I do not really have a coin collection (except for a few cheap pieces I have sitting around), the only real collection I have is my numismatic library. I find it more fun to attribute coins for other people and study the nuisances and history of Bust coinage, rather than have the coin sitting in a safe or safety deposit box. That being said, I do like to seek out choice/rare coin, admire and study them for a few days and then pass them along, sometimes I even make a little money to pay for the books. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I wish someone told me this early on, because it&#039;s a lot harder to lose money on coin books than coins, and a lot cheaper. Like I said, this may or may not be for you but consider it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for listening to my rant, I thought I would just put it out there, maybe it will help someone out.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jesse[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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