Replacing Coins With Better Grades Question.

Lincoln - I'm doing pretty well...summertime is my favorite time!

I'm glad a little of what I said had some value for you. I'd keep all WAMs I might find as they do have some value and the ones less 'flip worthy' are still something folks would trade for while they wait for something better to come along. I traded an AU 2000 WAM for a BU 1968S DDO a couple years back. A great swap for both sides as neither of us had what the other had duplicates of. You never know!!

I think it's a good idea to put most trade worthy coins into flips for protection and better organization/access. So when the opportunity to upgrade a coin in your collection (or to acquire one you don't have) presents itself, you can act quickly.

Thinking more about this in relationship to coin collecting as a whole, what someone does with extra coins and duplicates is really part of how they might define collecting. Having one in any grade might fit one person's definition while another might feel they need to upgrade as they go along (but only keep one; reduce the clutter and lighten the load as one member has sort of put it). Others have collections...but larger hoards. That might be their definition. So it depends on how you see it; what do you need to make you feel fulfilled? A sparkling set of MS coins? A mix of grades? Set or two with a side 'hoard' or two?

No right or wrong answer. It is whatever each of us makes it out to be.

My list of needed or wanted coins is usually and mostly a replacement list. I look for a coin in better shape than what is in my Albums. When I find one, it goes into my Album and the one there now goes into a 2x2 flip and then into a Whitman 2 row cardboard box. If and when there are enough in that box for a set, I get a new Album and start a new set. I many instances this grows to numerous sets since I never sell coins. The best coin goes into what would be set #1. From there they get progressively in lower grades from set to set. For example I'm now on set #12 for Mercury dimes and set #1 is almost all FSB. Only the 26S left in that set to acquire in FSB. Worst part of this is when I get a nice coin for set #2 or #3, I have to move all those other coins from set to set. Same with all my sets and now well over 100 Albums and several boxes of coins in 2x2's.
I sure hate to think of someone in the future trying to figure out what to do with all this stuff.