Threats of a superior set.
Here is an email message sent to me regarding my previous Journal Entry about where to buy coins.
"Can't afford PCGS Coins? I Like your collecting style. BUT I will never respect a collector who will settle for second best.
Thanks,
ANONYMOUS
P.S. Watch your lincolns fall to a PCGS set. I will log them soon."
Just because I am a little more frugal with my money? I still get the same or higher quality coin (for a given grade) from NGC than from PCGS. Doe
Where do you go to buy the best examples of the dates you're looking for?
My first love is small cents, particular the Lincoln Cent Proofs from 1909 to present. Not to say that I don't have a wide range of other coin varities, but those copper/nickel coins really do it for me.
I have been an amateur collector for about 20 years. I started my collection by purchasing only raw coins at Flea Markets, by looking thru the change of anyone that would let me and just about anywhere else I could f
.thumb.JPG.4b167ea74f57d8545171cee1a9e60eb2.JPG)
