I THOUGHT PCGS WANTED TO ENCOURAGE COIN COLLECTING

gary

USEING ONE COIN IN MORE THAN ONE SET IS SELFISH AND NOT RIGHT.....
I STRONGLY DISAGREE WITH ALL WHO WANT TO USE A $2500 COIN IN MORE THAT ONE SET...IT JUST KEEPS NEWBE'S FROM COMPETEING........
BUT....
IT MAKES PCGS LOOK GOOD.....3400 SETS AND COUNTING....

If PCGS would limit the use of a coin one time in the registery it would shrink to half......But, new collectors wanting to start a set would have more to choose from....That would be healthy...

Food for thought!

keithdagen

So you're saying that you can't collect coins without having a #1 Registry set?

Da*n, I've been going about this wrong.

gary

Keith,

You sound like a person who never played sports,had 400 employes,competed with other companies for your share of sales and products,played marbles,compeated for high school beauty queen etc....
Most people in every day life takes competion for granted.... thats human nature....

DO AWAY WITH THE ONE COIN FITS ALL(MOST) SETS.......GIVE THE REGISTERY SOME BREATHING ROOM

keithdagen

Before the Registry came about, you would have called a person selfish who bought dozens of the same coin just because they needed them. Now, you call them selfish because there is enough for everyone to have one?

merz2

gary
You're takeing this way to serious.Lighten up.The Registry is to have fun.You collect what you like regardless.The Registry is just to compare yours against others.It isn't whose is better.With enough dollars any one can be #1.There are also sets that would be #1 if they were registered and aren't.I know this for a fact.So even some of the #1 sets really aren't.

dbldie55

Kind of like the Olympics rule that no one can compete in more than one event. Gives more people a chance to win.

keithdagen

I don't remember that rule, dbldie55. Is it new?

leothelyon

It's impractical to buy 3 $2500 coins of the same date in order to enter into three sets of the same series.
But on the other hand, it does put a damper on newcomers who are competing to assemble partial sets if one coin can crossover from a complete set to all available partial collection sets of that series. But then again, if someone has most the best coins in a complete full set, wouldn't they also be the best coins for any partial collection set of that series. Let's face it people, the dilemma here is, who has the best collection of coins in all full and partial sets in any given series. Well, I'm certainly glad this is settled and understood for the most part, it really doesn't matter.

Leo

WWBillman

Give me a break.

You are saying that if I am assembling a complete US type set 1792 to present for a personal collection (which I am) and I want to register it in the 1792 - 1964 copper, nickel, silver type set and the 20th Century 1900 - 1999 circulation strike no gold Type set, I should have to buy 2 of every coin from 1900 - 1964?

Do you know how expensive a 1792 - Present set can be?

But by your way of thinking I should have to spend an extra $15,000 plus dollars to buy doubles for about 30 coins that have no bearing on the completeness of my set.
Or I should have to pick between the 2 sets to compete in just so everyone else can have more options, less competition and pretend my set does not exist.

As far as your competition analogy, you are saying someone can't play professional baseball & football because the seasons overlap (same person 2 different games)? We all know they can and have.
So why can I not compete in 2 different sets just because they overlap (same coins 2 different sets).

Russ

I bought a Barber dime today.

Russ, NCNE

braddick

<< <i>I bought a Barber dime today. Russ, NCNE >>



Thanks Russ. This thread needed taming. (Where's BEAR when you need him too?)

The premise that half the sets would be dropped if a coin was only entered once is faulty.
Although I appreciate your enthusiasm Gary (and at first I felt kind of the same way)- the Registry is fun. More sets is just more fun! I have a 1964 PCGS MS67 rainbow rimed Kennedy and I'm certainly maxing out that coin's abilities to enter various Registeries!

If tomorrow though PCGS told me I could only use it for one set I'd add my MS66's to the other sets is all. I wouldn't close them out.

keithdagen

Braddick,

Not that it will happen, but if you ever decide to sell that Kennedy.....

Cocoinut

The registry exists for the benefit and enjoyment of collectors. It's supposed to be fun!! Some people just don't seem to get it, and take the whole thing way too seriously. It's absurd to have to buy multiple coins of the same type to satisfy the requirements of several sets. If the registry suddenly went belly-up, wouldn't you feel foolish to have purchased coins that serve no purpose other than meet a registry requirement? Let's use a little common sense.

Jim

braddick

Keith, when I first discovered these Forums I did offer it for sale (at $300.00) and was basically laughed off the forums! (Someone refered to it as having rainbow hair or something along those lines. I was shamed!!). I'm glad I wasn't taken seriously then (some things never change. . .) as it inspired me to keep the coin (not that there was an option then).

Bcsican

Pat but we know now who gets the last laugh now.....

WWBillman

Braddack,

I thought you wanted my MS67 D, now keithdagen wants your MS67 P? But wait, I think I might want your P to.

This is getting way to confusing for me.....LOL

keithdagen

Bill,

I don't want the white ones, I like stuff closer to my icon.

braddick

Keith- not to OT this topic too badly, but sometime when we meet I'll show you four rainbow PCGS 1964 kennedies that will surprise you! One looks like the finest green/red/blue Rainbow Morgan even Anaconda has ever owned and the other- in a PCGS MS65 holder mind you, was shown to a Dealer/enthusiast who offered me one grand, on the spot, for the coin. The collector side of me took a pass. It's not only the prettiest Kennedy I've seen, but the prettiest toned coin period I've owned or seen.

And Bill- I still WANT THAT 64-D!!

keithdagen

Darn you, Pat, quit teasing me!!!!!!!

braddick

<< <i>Darn you, Pat, quit teasing me!!!!!!! >>



Ok, NOW you're just starting to sound like TJ!
:isturbing::

keithdagen

You should have noticed that I have pretty much replaced every silver coin in my set with a toned example, and here you go baiting me with toned Kennedys. Not nice.

braddick

It's funny you should say that because there is ONE that I would be willing to part with (sight-seen on your part, of course). . .

keithdagen

PM sent.

braddick

-And responded too.
(I hope Shiroh doesn't read this. I only used three words. Well, until now.)

TomB

I offered to buy your coin, braddick, when you put it up on the old Boards and you told me you had changed your mind and that you were taking it off the market. Remember? Not everyone laughed at you on that one.

michael

i thought pcgs wanted to encourage coin collecting??

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

its all about the $$$$$ nothing else matters

nothing wrong with that

just as long as you understand the game you are playing and go in with both eyes open so to speak

sincerely michael

lava

<< <i>It's impractical to buy 3 $2500 coins of the same date in order to enter into three sets of the same series.
But on the other hand, it does put a damper on newcomers who are competing to assemble partial sets if one coin can crossover from a complete set to all available partial collection sets of that series. But then again, if someone has most the best coins in a complete full set, wouldn't they also be the best coins for any partial collection set of that series. Let's face it people, the dilemma here is, who has the best collection of coins in all full and partial sets in any given series. Well, I'm certainly glad this is settled and understood for the most part, it really doesn't matter.

Leo >>



As it turns out, this is going on over at the NGC registry right now. If you have a dmpl morgan, it can qualify for the circulated registry, but not the pl registry. For the pl registry, you can only have a pl. The dmpls do qualify for both the circulated registry and the dmpl registry, but c'mon, how realistic is it that anyone will come close to completing a dmpl collection without any pls. The population reports suggest it is mathematically unlikely. I know I have my work cut out for me just putting together a pl set, but the added expense of buying pl coins that I already own in dmpl is an expense I don't need.

In short, I feel your pain Billman (and good taste in logo)

vam44

Collect plastic, coins inside matter little, the fun`s in the # on the SLAB!

pontiacinf

i like my puny sets

coinrookie

Good grief, I guess I am going about this all wrong. I collect mostly PCGS sets that you can`t register anyway.. A 1943 because of the Walker, fishing lure, and steel penny.76 proof set. Starting an Ike proof set, and an odds and ends set(Buff nick, indian penny,a couple of Morgans) State quarter mint sets. The only registered set is my lowly Sac set. I know the most hated coin. I think you should be able to use a coin in more than one set. Look at this way, it lets a collector branch out into other areas of interest without paying a duplication fee.You do not need a number one set to have fun in putting together a set.Unless you are motivated by pure profit.