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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 671108, member: 19463&quot;]No words are more true. I guess market prospects for 2009 Lincoln cents are pretty good since they made enough that every collector can have a bag set and none seem to be circulating. Relatively few collectors include on their want lists &quot;Things I never knew existed&quot; but that is one of my first entries. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I believe we underestimate the power of those old blue folders. Collectors of most coins approach the hobby like US collectors by type do. The folders served as constant reminder that we needed to save up for that s-VDB rather than spending the same money on a Liberty Cap large cent. Today, few people would actually press their S-VDB into a cardboard folder but many still feel the gap in their box of slabs. I remember feeling good about my folder for older small cents that had a cardboard plug in the 1856 hole so I did not have to feel bad about not having one. Long after we stop actually having coin folders we retain the ideas they fostered about what constitutes a proper collection. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The Ducat set is interesting and I agree GDJMSP is one of a kind in that attempt. I&#039;d go further and say I never knew any ancient Roman collector who was trying to get a set one denarius per year or a mint/year set of Sassanian silver of Khusro II. Certainly there were many of us trying to get everything we could but I never checked 194 AD off my list even after I bought my 100th coin of that date. Many beginning collectors of ancients start by wanting one coin of each emperor or one coin of each Greek city state but I attribute that to a carry over attitude from when these people collected US in blue folders and most get over it in due time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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