Wanting To Start A New Collection--Need Ideas

Not knowing your budget makes it impossible to guess when you'd go broke.

So if you can easily afford all three flying eagles, go for it.

Barber's could be cheap if you go for low enough grades. Eagles are a good series as well. Not knowing your budget makes it difficult to suggest a collection.

I would suggest to you that this is something for you to decide only!

Barber dimes are great. They are pretty much available and can pick and choose. The 1894s is $$$ but besides that there are only a few other keys.

If you do decide to go with that, take your time picking and choosing. I tend to go by look instead of grade. I see a lot of VG8 and F12 that in my opinion is better or worse than the grade.

hmm I have an 1857 Flying Eagle cent, I could start there I guess.

Yeah they are my favorite small cent. Although I do a Walking Liberty half dollar to be fairly appealing.

Okay, since you're an unemployed teenager, how about Kennedy halfs. They are all pretty inexpensive even at MS60.

Buy a few here and there and save about half of your coin budget for one of those $10,000 flying eagles - or whatever else catches your attention some day in the future.

I kind of feel like giving some advice so stop reading if you're not in the mood.

I know a more than a few collector/dealers (from my local club) that never specialized. They would buy a little of what they liked and saved until they could buy a key date or a semi-key date. I did the same. I got a lot of my collection right out of circulation. I bought a few coins, started going after silver quarters, all the while saving part of my coin budget. Then after a couple of years I was able to buy my husband a nice gold coin for his birthday.

And for fun -- we both collect critter coins. We never spend a lot on those because those are just for fun.

So have some fun collecting and don't be too concerned about completing a collection.

I am a type set collector.

That allows you to appreciate U.S. coinage history, and it also allows you to build a collection around what your budget limits you to.

A type set of cents or dimes would be a good way to start. There is a large fan base for Lincoln Wheat Cents here in the CCF
I have an incomplete date set of Mercury dimes, and a nice selection of .900 silver halves in MS.

I started at about 16 years old, in a similar way with Australian coins.

Or perhaps if you are REALLY on a limited by budget, just start with every different design of every coin you can get from circulation! I am not proud. The coins can be had at face value!
That is how most Americans, who became interested in coins, started after World War 2.

THAT may sound strange from a guy like myself, because I have been collecting ancients in a moderate way for 30 odd years!