Spendy vs. Reality

Well I've been of the mind set that I want a complete set of early commemoratives at grade MS-65 or better. This has been going well for me as I've been busy buying the cheaper ones while looking for high quality strikes for the grade/price. I recently scouted a couple of the more costly coins and decided those would have to be a once a year purchase. Some of the coins run into the thousands of dollars at this high of grade therefore I've decided to buy those spendy ones in raw state w/ no grading in mind. Then I'll put them in a Dansco album. This way I can get the coins ungraded and still looking good and cheap or cheaper anyway. I'll let you know what happens when and if I ever get to the Hawaiian coin! I recently got the Monroe and Sesqui Half dollars, both raw and good strikes especially for less than 90$ for the pair. I also have some raw ones residing in the safe waiting to enter a book. I don't plan on grading those either.

I did pick up some nice buys on some graded coins, this week.

They are: 1935-D Arkansas MS-66

1937 Roanoke Island MS-66

1948-S BTW MS-66

1951 BTW MS-65

They will make nice additions to my collection.

BTW Now I need to plans for my commems. I need to decide which ones will be book only versions ie raw and cheap. I also need to decide which ones will be graded when bought. It's this kind of stuff that keeps me getting up in the morning.