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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;waterfallice, post: 7640701, member: 119337&quot;]Don, I&#039;m in virtually the same situation... just returning to the hobby after doing other things since the late 80s, only to find a brand new world of internet, grading companies, a bull market, auctions... the list goes on. It&#039;s fun navigating a new hobby (or is it an &quot;industry&quot;) but thankfully coins are still coins, which is perhaps why we love it. I&#039;ve been anxious over how to best collect in albums after accepting the fact exceptional grades or values should be slabbed. I appreciate finding this post since I don&#039;t personally know any other collectors and the LCS isn&#039;t very helpful or willing to engage. For me, it&#039;s nice to buy certified coins so you can trust what you are getting but at first I was loath to crack anything out. I decided to be willing to crack out a few modest coins to fill my type set album and Morgan by date set. I figure they will be in the albums for decades for me to enjoy. They may tone some but if they are MS63 (average) or below, I&#039;m not too worried since I&#039;m not buying to flip them. If I need to sell someday or upgrade a coin, I can get them reslabbed. I also prefer to buy ANACS or ICG slabbed coins to break out, knowing the ICG coins may be overgraded. If nothing else it will be interesting to compare against NGC or PCGS someday. But who knows, by the time I need or want to sell, even those companies might be replaced by God knows what. AI grading?? My biggest question right now, however, is which album to use as my primary US Type Set including gold. Intercept or Dansco... Needless to say, I&#039;m passionate and glad to be back into numismatics. Onward![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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