Awhile ago I was pondering as to what my next project was going to be. Towards that end I purchased a couple of used Dansco albums for a modern and a classic series.
The modern series happens to be a coin that was started back in 2009 I believe - the
Presidential dollar. This series I will be putting together in both the best pristine examples that can be found for a recent, and also one put together from existing circulating coins that I can find in CWR's.
The classic series is an album of silver dollars - both Morgan and
Peace dollars. I've decided to put the series together of examples of VF or XF coins.
At first I was going to ignore variation such a 8 or 7 tail feathers, or the 1872 O/S overstrike. or even the 1887/6. But given some costs it appears that anything from Carson City is going to be commanding a premium among the
Morgan dollars.
Since I have completed an album of the
Peace dollars I do feel that there may a possibility of upgrading some coins in that album and putting them back into the new album.
The reason that I decided to go the VF or XF route for this album lies squarely in the price and over all coin appearance. I not sure if I will be comfortable with a mix of grades in the album, but since I'm just starting this album I'm not really married to particular grades. Once I get 10 or so coins in the grades mentioned then I feel that I will married to the grade.
Comments?