Starting A US Type Set

as an investment stand point I would say it is always better to buy the key dates but as an aesthetic point of view I would say buy the best coin of the series you can afford and build a very nice looking set. When I started building my 7070 album I thought I would put no coins lower than AU in grade in the album because AU will look good along side Bu coins and not look out of place, another thing I said was all coins had to be problem free. I also said once a coin was in the album that hole was filled forever because I would not upgrade any coin I had placed in the album, well that is out the window as I have upgraded a few of them just because I found a coin I liked better than the example I had in there first. All in all I love the set as much as any other set I have tried to put together and everyone that actually see's all the different types of coins in the album really loves it also, most of them have never seen some of the coins included in the Dansco7070 album so its kind of like teaching them as you show them the coins

I a building a VF or better set and I think it makes a nice appearance. My album has a progression from older VF/XF coins to newer AU to newest BU. It shows a historical progression in that the oldest coins look the oldest and for me at least it works.

Some of those early coins in AU are just out of my price range - and even VF is a stretch sometimes.

My main goal was to be able to see the design elements with some level of detail and VF mostly achieves that. If I ever strike it rich though, you can be sure I am upgrading!

I have used proof coins on some of the back pages but typically AU or BU coins for the modern cents, nickels, dimes, quarters and halves.

Ken