If You Could Invest $20 Weekly Into Coin(S) What Would You Get

That's about what I was going to say. I've been thinking about doing the same...$10-30 each week. I'd probably go with dimes I can get at close to melt. Most likely 64 Roosevelts...you should be able to get pretty much AU ones for around melt. At the current silver price (around $36 & change), you could almost squeeze in 8 per week for your $20. They'll stack up quickly!

This is a great thread! it's interesting to me partially because I dropped by the local antique market a couple weeks ago and they have a coin shop in the back. Giant safes, guys sorting through piles of coins, etc. Anyway, the owner started chatting with me and suggested that I spend $20 (or whatever I was comfortable spending) in silver every week. Of course, he wanted to sell it to me at spot (or just a tiny bit higher). That's when silver prices were near $50 so I'm sure he would have been thrilled to unload a couple hundred dollars of silver and almost certainly make a huge margin. Still, that's a good approach to long-term investing.

I think I will take some of the advice here and start snagging rolls from banks.

Oh, and to the newcomers!

Well, I would get $20.00 in nickels each week. I started doing this a few months ago just to have them due to their intrinsic value being higher than a nickel. There are articles written on saving nickels now while the metal is still copper and nickel. Saying a win win 'investment'. Well, in the first $20.00 I got the very first roll had a war silver nickel. Upon looking through the rolls to verify, I found MANY pre 1960s nickels including buffalos. My point is that the nickels along with being 'real money' can be collected in coin books which is what I have ended up doing. My real intent was just to put aside a few hundred dollars in nickels, just in case they ever became like pre 1965 dimes, quarters and halves! I have found about 22 silver nickels and the same in buffalos along with a few Canadian pre 1982 nickels that are 99% nickel, including a 1929! Anyway, with $20 per week that is what I would do. Silver dimes are another investment that you would be able to buy a few per week or just save up. I did see the pennies as well, but more work! Whatever you decide have fun! If you can find a bank that has a few rolls of halves, that's another idea, but just mainly to search for 'free silver' I have gone through some of them and have found some silver halves (remember the 65-70 are 40%, many are unaware and they can be found in rolls in quantity, not just a stray silver coin)

I would start out buying some common date Mercury dimes in XF-AU condition. I just really think Mercury dimes are beautiful and historic coins to get you started. I think that Mercury dimes and Buffalo nickels are very classic designs that my spur you on to collect more vintage pieces as your knowledge and income grow.

One idea not covered yet would be to send me that $20/week. This method would be advantageous since if out of reach you wouldn't be tempted to blow it on anything useless.
I would use your money to buy coins and tell you how nice they look in my Albums too.

If I had five more dollars of allowance, it would be a brick of pennies a week!

I would finish off the sets that I am currently working one. I might not be able to get a coin each week, but I assume that combining a few weeks would be okay.

Join the ANA, and you can borrow their books for the cost of postage.