#2 was my pick too
And the "What if" isn't as much of a "what if" as a "why?"

Based on where you are as a collector TODAY - thinking back, do you think your choice would have been different in your first two years as an "active collector"? Same? or different?

and by "active collector", I am excluding your "bowl years" if you had them
In case "bowl years" is not in everyone's dictionary - what I mean is: I was throwing chips, tokens and matches into a Tupperware bowl for 10 years before I became an "active collector". I call these my "bowl years". 3 years ago "me-n-the-bowl" came out of the closet - and the rest is history