Our Own Winesteven In The May/June Issue Of The PCGS Market Report Collector Spotlight

hfjacinto

I was reading the May/June online version of the PCGS Market Report and look who is featured in the article!!!

Its our own @winesteven . I don't know if I can post the link, but here is the article!

Congrats Steven!! Well done!!

WAYNEAS

Yeah for @winesteven.
A recognition well deserved.
Wayne

Jzyskowski1

Hey, congratulations buddy. This place is awesome. So many wonderful folks who enjoy each other’s company ( mostly 😁)
I never cease to be amazed at all those who take the time to post here and share their thoughts.
Thanks 🙏

golden

Very cool!

CircCam

Congrats, Steve! I appreciate your contributions and your approach to building your collection.

alaura22

Well done my friend, Congrats

jesbroken

@winesteven Congrats, what an informative and quite propitious article about you. Very deserving.
Jim

robec

Congratulations!!

baddogss

Congratulations!

Eldorado9

Nice article Steve! @winesteven Well Done!

Walkerfan

Congratulations @winesteven !! Well deserved!! I must add that I completely agree with your philosophy regarding upgrades. Once I find a suitable example of a coin; I rarely upgrade it.

skier07

Well done and congratulations!

Clackamas1

Congratulations - I just read it.

Shane6596

That is awesome! Congrats.
Was a good read.

FlyingAl

This thread needs some of Steve's coins!

He's got a wonderful collection, all PCGS CAC, many with pluses. Each coin is clearly chosen painstakingly, for the best quality.

usararecoins

Congratulations, always like viewing your sets.

jmlanzaf

Nice

vulcanize

@winesteven
Kudos.
Awesome and well deserved.

Love the Indian Head Cent collection.

Cheers.

Pnies20

Judas Priest 65 registry sets?????????

pointfivezero

Class act. Great article.

Tim

SanctionII

Congratulations Steve.

divecchia

Steve is a classy guy for sure. He tries to share his collection along with his knowledge with anyone that will listen. A true ambassador of the hobby for sure.

@winesteven Congrats on the article, Steve.

Donato

Raybo

Bow ties are back in fashion?

MidLifeCrisis

Congratulations @winesteven ! I enjoyed reading the article.

Thanks for posting @hfjacinto !

Mr_Spud

Great article, congrats @winesteven

winesteven

@Pnies20 said:
Judas Priest 65 registry sets?????????

Don’t be that impressed. There’s a tremendous amount of overlap, utilizing the same coins. For example, my “main” set is my Dansco 7070 with Gold. From that set, I use mostly those coins for a Nickel Type Set, Proof (1865 - 1964); a separate but almost identical set that allows a mix of Proof and Business strikes called Nickel Type Set (1865 - 1864); Gold Type Set 8 Piece; Gold Type Set 12 Piece; Gold Type Set 12 piece - CAC (where only coins with CAC stickers are allowed); 20th Century Gold Type Set; two very slightly different 20th Century Type Sets, no Gold; a 41 coin Basic U.S. Coin Design Set, no Gold; a 54 coin Basic U.S. Coin Design Set; a 7 coin Basic Bust Type Set no Gold; a 7 coin Basic Seated Liberty Type Set; Complete Barber Type Set (only 3 coins are required); a Dansco 7070 set, but this set has no gold; a 9 coin Small Cent Type Set that allows a mix of Business Strike and Proof coins; an almost identical 9 coin Small Cent Type Set that requires only Business strikes; slightly different than the above two Nickel Type sets are two 10 coin Five Cent Type Sets (virtually identical to each other, one requiring only Proof coins, the other allowing a mixture); Gold Dollar Type Set (only three coins are required for a set requiring only business strikes, and the exact three same coins used for a Gold Dollar Type Set that allows, but does not require, a mix of proof and business strike coins.

So from that one main set - Dansco 7070 with Gold, I was able to legitimately make another 20 subsets that at most required me to add maybe a handful of coins not in the Dansco 7070 main set.

But that’s not all. I started a Flying Eagle Set, and actually have seven separate Flying Eagle Registry sets with only slight differences among them; My 55 coin Indian Head Cent set, with those identical 55 coins used in a separate IHC set that requires all coins to be with CAC stickers; from my one 1936-1942 US Proof Set Registry Set I’m able to partake in 16 additional subsets, each using coins from only that one 1936-1942 Proof set registry set; from my 10 coin Two Cent set I also added two other versions of Two Cent Registry sets using only coins from that main Two Cent set; and finally, with my Twenty Cent set, Franklin Proof Set and 50 coin Silver Classic Commem set, I also partake in identical sets, but where every coin has to have a CAC sticker.

Steve

calgolddiver

congratulations Steve !! well deserved !!

johnny9434

Wtg and a big congrats 🫡

ricko

@winesteven... Congratulations... and thanks for the explanatory breakdown of your sets. Still an admirable collection/achievements. Great forum member and contributor. Look forward to your posts. Cheers, RickO

Nic

Congratulations Steve!

MFeld

That’s an excellent article about a great collector and an even greater gentleman.
Steve is consistently informative, helpful, thorough, dedicated and good-natured, not to mention, fun to converse with.

Congratulations, Steve!

PS - If I were a wine drinker - and I’m most assuredly not - I might have even had something nice to say about him.😉

bagofnickels

@winesteven congrats! That is quite the accomplishment.

ironmanl63

Very nice article.

1630Boston

PeakRarities

Fantastic write up for a true Gentleman. @Winesteven is bona fide a class act, and a great asset to both the hobby and the forum. Rock on Steve!

Higashiyama

Excellent article! Next we’ll be watching for the write-up in Wine Spectator!

stevefromne

Excellent piece on a class act ; for his Indian Cent set, the pics look fantastic. Then I saw them live at the FUN Show, and they are off the charts gorgeous.

Crackout

Congratulations @winesteven! Even your bowtie looks like a CAC sticker!

DCW

Great article and congrats to a great forum member. It is nice when one of our own is recognized for their achievements!

keyman64

Very nice!

Smudge

Congrats. Experts like him is what keeps me coming back here.

Namvet69

Another reason why this forum is worth the effort. Congrats

winesteven

Thanks so much for all of the very kind words shared above.

When I was approached by PCGS to be in the “Collector Spotlight”, I was shocked, and excited. I answered their questions, and tried to share as many insights and tips as they had room to include.

Steve

gumby1234

@winesteven How many actual full sets of coins do you have? No duplicate sets for the same coin included. So if a coin is in a set and not included for another set how many would you actually have?

alaura22

@gumby1234 said:
@winesteven How many actual full sets of coins do you have? No duplicate sets for the same coin included. So if a coin is in a set and not included for another set how many would you actually have?

I did what Steve did. I started out with the 7070 Dansco type set and then branched out into other sets, now 92 of them. I think it would be almost imposable to figure out how many sets we would have with just using the coin once in any set
Maybe Steve can follow up with this.

gumby1234

@alaura22 Well he has his full IHC set so thats 1. I think he said he has a full set of Commemoratives so that would be 2. I lost track after that.

coinhack

A true collector to the bone. Your sets are a delight to look at.

alaura22

@gumby1234 said:
@alaura22 Well he has his full IHC set so thats 1. I think he said he has a full set of Commemoratives so that would be 2. I lost track after that.

But
If the type set includes the IHC then it would be used there.....
See what I mean.......
I'll try and figure mine out but I'll tell you that out of the 92 sets I have their would probably be only a few

gumby1234

@alaura22 Thats what I'm trying to figure out. If 65 or 92 sets in your case is actually like 3 sets with a few other coins thrown in.

alaura22

Yes, except for any foreign sets and any coins that are not in the type sets.
It also depends on the type set, a complete type set from 1792-present would surely add a lot of coins into the mix.

mtn_scout

I've always marveled at your registry sets so it was interesting to read a little more about you. You've always come across as a knowledgable gentleman.