Reborn Collector Seeking Advice: Pricing And What To Collect

@SuperDave: Your advice is likely the best (philosophically) and also the hardest to heed. I will do my best. My grading skills have developed pretty quickly as I've gotten more familiar with the Sheldon Scale. I have yet to touch on any general "signs of cleaning" information so I've added it to my list of homework. My Red Book and my first loupe were ordered towards the end of last week. I can only get better.

@westcoin: My Red Book is coming! My next step may be to check out what my local library has in stock or else I may become a coin literature collector as well as a coin collector.

@Pandesalapi: I'm embarrassed to say I've never been very fond of yellow gold. It'd take a mighty fine specimen to sway me. However, I'm sure once I'm forced to finish sets by purchasing the key date coins my purchases will be spread out to reflect my budget. :P

@biggfredd: Thank you for taking an objective look at my pricing. I'm going to fix what you've pointed out now. A couple points you make that really stuck out. Gold and silver scrap value drives the bottom line of silver and gold coins. I need to repeat this in my head a few times so it sticks. And I had no idea about the Thaler's history. It ended up having pearls around the broach. Too bad on that, but I did enjoy the history. The PR69 bicentennial is indeed slabbed by PCGS. The other two are graded by someone I don't trust.