Post the coin that started your current set!

ChopmarkedTrades

I'm interested to see the coins that were nice enough to inspire our community members to go down the rabbit hole. Here's mine, an 1873-S Trade Dollar w/ Chop Mark, MS62. While it wasn't the first chopmarked Trade Dollar I owned, it was the first that was a condition rarity, and started my current date set of high AU/MS Trade Dollars with chop marks.

Musky1011

Started a Dansco Dollar Date set album with this coin
Started a few days ago
Already cracked it out of its "Tomb"

cardinal

This one --

That spurred on the collection seen here:
LIBERTAS AMERICANA TOKENS OF THE U.S. CENTENNIAL, which now has 126 separate tokens.

Regulated

When I had a shot at buying this guy, I was forced to put together a set:

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WingedLiberty1957

This Lincoln bought in 2011 ...

Led to this Obsession ...

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oih82w8

I consider my 7070 the most recent set and the Type I Standing Liberty Quarter may not be the the first in the set, it's up there at the begining.

ChopmarkedTrades

@WingedLiberty1957 said:
This Lincoln bought in 2011 ...

Led to this Obsession ...

Now _that's _an amazing display! Love the coin board image format. Kind of tough to call that 57-D brown, huh?

mirabela

Occasional forays into other minor projects aside, I've been a type collector these past fifteen years. I think this is the one that started me down that road -- I found it at a small show and thought, "neat, I've never had one of those before!" To me, it's sort of the quintessential awesome workingman's coin in my set, more or less the definition of "Gem circulated." It's still one of my favorite coins.

CharlotteDude

These are the two that started it all...
1798-1812 HEs

1838-C - 1861-C HEs

Sandman70gt

This one not only started my merc complete variety set, but varieties in general. It is my 1st variety coin.

gtstang

When I got this one, I decided to try the peace $ super set.

jwitten

Bought this one raw on ebay. Seller pics were terrible so I didn't even know it was toned. Graded MS62 at NGC (now crossed same grade at PCGS).

It led to my toned obsession, and here is where I currently stand:

asheland

This one started the gold type set:

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asheland

And this, I believe is the start to southern gold.

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messydesk

I can think of a few that have led me to build sets.

50-coin commem type set (complete)

$5 Liberty mint mark set (almost done)

This is probably the one that got me building a British Trade Dollar set. (over half way, but not likely completable)

I find myself with 6 bust dollars in my collection, and I blame this one

And this is the one that sent me into the VAM vortex over 20 years ago (1891 VAM 2).

I couldn't tell you which coin led me to do a Prime Number Set, as it started with pieces I already had for one reason or another.

tommy44

I've shown this before but it is worth showing again considering the topic of this thread. When I bought this Capital holder in 1975 it was full. I had a few other liberty $5.00 gold coins but really hadn't thought about "collecting" them.

When I got this baby in my hands I thought "what would it take to get the previous 24?". Well I finally accomplished that 37 years later in April of 2012 with the purchase of a 1892-O.

WaterSport

My first PCGS Lincoln Cent bought 3/9/03 for $20 off the bay.

mrcommem

Branch gold dollars. I bought this coin from Jack Hancock back in the late 1990's. Caught the gold bug. This was the first coin in my Dahlonega Type and the first branch gold dollar. Only 5 more dollars to go.

Eagleguy

I believe I bought this from Brandon. Apologies for the slightly out of focus photo.