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Starting a type set album

ajaanajaan Posts: 17,583 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited December 27, 2018 1:32PM in U.S. Coin Forum

First coin. Thoughts on detail grade? Fine? VF? 1854 is a special year for me. My great-grandfather's birth year.



DPOTD-3
'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'

CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


Don

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  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,671 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Vf35, shot Xf, nice surfaces and color.

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,757 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "commercial EF" Really a VF-35 with great color or sufaces, save for a marks in the left field.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,706 ✭✭✭✭✭

    An attractive example!

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  • TiborTibor Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice. Are you starting a 7070?

  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,671 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes you did well from what I can tell from the photos.

    Successful BST transactions with 171 members. Ebeneezer, Tonedeaf, Shane6596, Piano1, Ikenefic, RG, PCGSPhoto, stman, Don'tTelltheWife, Boosibri, Ron1968, snowequities, VTchaser, jrt103, SurfinxHI, 78saen, bp777, FHC, RYK, JTHawaii, Opportunity, Kliao, bigtime36, skanderbeg, split37, thebigeng, acloco, Toninginthblood, OKCC, braddick, Coinflip, robcool, fastfreddie, tightbudget, DBSTrader2, nickelsciolist, relaxn, Eagle eye, soldi, silverman68, ElKevvo, sawyerjosh, Schmitz7, talkingwalnut2, konsole, sharkman987, sniocsu, comma, jesbroken, David1234, biosolar, Sullykerry, Moldnut, erwindoc, MichaelDixon, GotTheBug
  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,303 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That’s a good looking coin

  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,583 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Tibor said:
    Very nice. Are you starting a 7070?

    Yep. Some nice forum member gave me one for Christmas.


    DPOTD-3
    'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'

    CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


    Don
  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It looks like a good start. I hear you have an inexpensive silver nickel to put in there too.

  • DRUNNERDRUNNER Posts: 3,897 ✭✭✭✭✭

    7070 . . . . . a truly fun numismatic experience. Spend the time finding just the right Classic cent. To many of us, it is the coin by which the album is defined.
    Have fun !!!!!!

    Drunner

  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ajaan said:
    @Tibor said:

    Very nice. Are you starting a 7070?

    Yep. Some nice forum member gave me one for Christmas.

    Great start! An awesome project, fairly net graded pieces can be a very good value, and get you most of the details and need a glass to see the flaw, which time in the album can soften with the years..

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • RollermanRollerman Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I wish you well with your type set. I worked on one for 30+ years and then started on another one. I've been updating since then. My first type set would be the last thing I'd part with, should I ever have to part with any of my collection.
    I'm sure you will have an enjoyable time building your set!
    Pete

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  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    When I started my first 7070, I somehow got either lucky or smart enough to start at the BACK.
    By the time I finished, the cents cost as much as the dollars. :D

  • 3stars3stars Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've been looking to do a 7070, but it seems they are quite out of date - no slot for a shield back cent, front facing Jefferson, ATB quarter - unless I'm looking at the old versions or they don't include 21st century designs?

    Previous transactions: Wondercoin, goldman86, dmarks, Type2
  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,671 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My 7070 is so old it has no slot for the Sacajawea dollar, and for the SBA dollar, has ‘1979 - ‘

    Successful BST transactions with 171 members. Ebeneezer, Tonedeaf, Shane6596, Piano1, Ikenefic, RG, PCGSPhoto, stman, Don'tTelltheWife, Boosibri, Ron1968, snowequities, VTchaser, jrt103, SurfinxHI, 78saen, bp777, FHC, RYK, JTHawaii, Opportunity, Kliao, bigtime36, skanderbeg, split37, thebigeng, acloco, Toninginthblood, OKCC, braddick, Coinflip, robcool, fastfreddie, tightbudget, DBSTrader2, nickelsciolist, relaxn, Eagle eye, soldi, silverman68, ElKevvo, sawyerjosh, Schmitz7, talkingwalnut2, konsole, sharkman987, sniocsu, comma, jesbroken, David1234, biosolar, Sullykerry, Moldnut, erwindoc, MichaelDixon, GotTheBug
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @3stars said:
    I've been looking to do a 7070, but it seems they are quite out of date - no slot for a shield back cent, front facing Jefferson, ATB quarter - unless I'm looking at the old versions or they don't include 21st century designs?

    That's right. It's a survey of 1800-2000 US type coins, and is not complete. It is missing the draped bust and large sized dimes and quarters, among others, and, thankfully, doesn't try to Keep Up with the plethora of moderns.

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • mirabelamirabela Posts: 5,098 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's a great project. In keeping with the 'survey' nature of the album Baley mentions above, I threw a clear insert page in the front of mine for some representative early bust & flowing hair coins, no-stars seated, colonials, circulated Spanish silver, Civil War tokens, a Philippine territorial piece, etc. -- other elements of the landscape of circulating coinage in or by the US.

    mirabela
  • GaCoinGuyGaCoinGuy Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭✭

    I created a template for some updates to the 7070. Been researching adhesives to hold everything together and trying to find die cutters to fit the coins. There's a thread somewhere with a picture of it.

    imageimage

  • GaCoinGuyGaCoinGuy Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭✭

    Here is a link to the thread.

    https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/974738/something-ive-been-tinkering-with-dansco-7070#latest

    imageimage

  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Something about that OP coin makes me want to keep looking at the dang thing. :)

  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,551 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Type set album collecting is one of the few things I still have "fun" with.

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