Best Of

While I started out in the late 1950’s collecting Roosevelt Dimes in a blue Whitman folder, my first real coin that got my juices up came in 1962. My dad owned a coffee shop in lower Manhattan, and brought me home a twenty-cent piece, an 1875-S, probably an XF. This was before silver coins were withdrawn from circulation, and the customer may have thought it was a quarter. Regardless, I was fascinated, and that’s the coin that started me putting together a Type Set, an endeavor that lasted almost 60 years! My Dansco 7070 Registry Set, shown below in my auto-signature, is the final result. It’s currently ranked #2, behind D.L. Hansen.

My biggest regret is I sold that coin decades ago when I bought an upgrade! Silly me! Oh, how I wish I had that coin today!

Steve

PCGS PR67

Very cool finds there. Man, I know I would have found a way to pick the lock on that bank. That is a very cool looking bank.