collecting is fun once again

daveyn

I don't know how many of you get cought up in all this Registry competition and hipe as I did, It seems to me to take a little fun out of collecting. Don't get me wrong, I love my Franklin set but I think I got to far away from other types of coins and too concerned with graded stuff.
Last week my wife ,who is a big Civil War buff suggested I put together a Civil War set. The great thing about this set is , we want the set to be circulated coins used during the period 1861-1865.
I guess the point of this post is , You can have the best of both worlds, your Registry and other types of collecting. There are some really neat and interesting coins out there to collect and I think maybe I'll try a Registry Quality Civil War set.

As I said I love my Registry set and mean no offence to anyone, just wanted opinions.

Daveyn

itsnotjustme

Agree with you...

I've taken an interest in SMS coins, and built a 1965-1967 15-Coin set. Of course I hope they will make it a registry set one day.

CarlWohlforth

Those do sound like fun ideas!

I was tempted by a scan of an Alaskan pinch from the coin forum. That sounds like a fun coin to me.

It sure is easy to side track myself. I was interested in California fractional gold coins, a side track in itself, and now learn there are Alaska Pinchs! Those gold rushes are interesting. One day I will head for the hills and pan for gold

Cocoinut

Carl,

That's an interesting site. I've collected for a looong time, and have never seen those Alaskan tokens before. Thanks for sharing.

If you want to pan for gold, there are places here in Colorado where you can do it. I've tried it in the headwaters of the Platte River, and actually found a few flecks of gold. You won't get rich doing it, but it's fun to do for a few minutes.

Jim

prooflike

Hey, email PCGS and recommend the SMS registry set. It's a nice short set and would be competitive.

Keyrock

I've slowly been starting to build a civil war set, a WWI and WWII set. I've been going back and forth over a MS or circ set and I may do both. The circ set would be cool knowing that people from that era actually handled those coins and the MS set would capture the beauty of the design. I find that these sets are a nice diversion from the "registry rat race" (which I still participate in) .

Rich

scher

I love the coinage from this period..I have plenty of real expensive graded coins and sets from this period... ..but its really cool to feel a coin and think of it being around and used in those days...
bruce scher

tjkillian

I've been creating a 1861 type set for a couple of years now. About half are uncirculated, but the more expensive gold is in AU. All PCGS graded. I still have the Silver Half Dollar, Silver Dollar, Three Dollar Gold and the Double Eagle to go. I'm also a Civil War buff and find it facinating. The whole year set is PCGS slabbed, by the way.

Tom