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I saw these selling pretty inexpensively at the coin show I attended recently. What is the opinion on keeping these sets intact or perhaps using them to get better quality coins in your Dansco albums?
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I would want to break them up for albums!  |
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Buy 2 for each year! One for your dansco and one for the set
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Buy 2 for each year! One for your dansco and one for the set Now that is the right attitude to have!  |
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I have started putting a lot of serius thought in to this. So I will have a nice album and still have the mint set. My problem is I want the mint set and the unc. set for the album so buying two solved my problem
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It sounds like you need 4 sets then......
One for you, one for the Dansco, one for the 8 year old, and one for the 5 year old.
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I was thinking along the same lines except maybe buying 3 so my son, who is 8 and enjoys coins, will have a set. But then what if he wants to start a dansco.... And my 5 year old is showing some interest.... Where does it end?  I would stick with three for now. If the 8-year-old wants to start a Dansco, or the 5 year-old wants to start collecting, then you can always buy more! |
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Texas Trader, your kids sound like mine, that is why I can not show them everything I want to buy. My 8 year old is into LMC's and wanting to start Kennedy half dollars so right now I can keep it to circulated coins for now. But I know that soon enough she will see the benefit of breaking down sets and putting them into multiple sets and then my world will change for sure. |
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My girlfriends daughter (almost 4) likes EVERYTHING shiny !! She is ecstatic over the Presidential dollars ......  |
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Quote:My girlfriends daughter (almost 4) likes EVERYTHING shiny ! She is ecstatic over the Presidential dollars ...... Keep her away from Stainless Steel guns. They too are shiny. And if you and your girlfriend have a fight and the kid has the gun? You stated inexpensive. What your saying is pending on just what do you mean by that? Based on what guide price sheets or books? And just because the seller was a dealer at a coin show does not mean he knows what he is doing and may be selling them for more or less than they are worth. Also, some times dealers at coin shows also sell Unc coins from the sets they broke open so you could just buy the ones you need. Regardless if I were you I'd buy as many as possible for all your kids, wife, nieces and nephews and me for suggesting them. Every year for more years than I can remember I purchase about 10 to 15 proof and unc sets from the Mint. I also purchase about the same in Red Books and use almost all for Christmas Presents. Not sure if your kids would appreciate them as a Christmas present, but worth a try. |
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The best thing about these sets is that they have the very best coins that were made for circulation. With most of the coins there is no other source anyway but that's because quality was so poor nobody saved the rolls.
There is a lot of variation in quality of the sets so it probably pays to be a little picky with them.
It's remarkable that most of these sets are actually cheaper than the individual parts even on the wholesale market.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Forum Mom has a ton of these for sale on the Selling forum. I just bought 10 of them myself!
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Quote:Keep her away from Stainless Steel guns. They too are shiny. And if you and your girlfriend have a fight..  ...  ...and the kid has the gun?  .......That's right Carl!......I didn't think of that !....eaglefoot leaves the room to go and get rid of all "shiny objects"....... |
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eaglefoot leaves the room to go and get rid of all "shiny objects"....... Do not forget to secure the Ginsu set as well! |
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Good grief !...... .....I'll just have to torch the place !  (I actually used to collect knives too !....mostly bowie's) |
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Posted 08/28/2008 10:19 pm
