Uniformity?

morganbarber

1907Quarter has a current post about having finished a Liberty Nickel set. I want to congratulate him. However, he says that they are all in G-VG condition. While I like uniformity, I tend to collect higher grade common dates and lower grade keys and semi-keys. Do you think that uniformity should trump higher quality? I have very limited funding. In my Morgans, for instance, I have some common and better date pieces in MS 62-64, however, most of my better date and semi-key coins are closer to VG-F. I would love a '93 O in MS65, but could never afford one. I wouldn't really mind a 1985 O in VF, but can aford one in MS64. The question, once again, is: Do you seek uniformity or best affordable pieces? I am very interested in your responces.

MadMarty

Hell, I can't afford a 93-S in a Braddick grade!!! I keep upgrading the common ones and when I sell off the lesser grades I sock the money away to upgrade a key or semi-key.

morganbarber

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agfox

In Morgans I usually look for the price break coins. Where the next grade up is worth 3x or more money. The keys will just come at whatever grade I feel I can reasonably afford, which for that blasted '95 is going to be so very low...

I have a VF walker set that is almost complete that I take pride in, was looking for uniformity in that set, and was fairly cheap.

longtimecollector

In my opinion, every series has a wear point at which it becomes pretty darn ugly....... Seated coins below vg-f (unless an ultra rare variety) just all seem like slugs....... wheaties below fine are like spending money..... Ever see a vg Peace Dollar? ICK........ Yeah, Ive got some Federal Era silver without rims, but those are acceptable to me sometimes....... Some coins just arent attractive after they've been thru a few hundred thousand hands....... Collect what appeals to you and remember, NO WHERE in this hobby does a COMPLETE SET bring more $ than the sum of its parts unless its the King of Siam Set !

Dog97

I like uniformity but like you said that's hard to do with Morgs unless you want to settle for Fine for the whole set. Just because the V nics don't have many coins there are still some tough ones but the guy has a well matched set that looks nice & even. I would rather see a matched set in VG/G than a set in 63 then you get to the 85 & 86 and only have Good but that's just me.
You have 96 Morgs in a set and a $1,000 will get you a VG 93-S, a 89CC in XF or a 81-S in MS67 or 10 common dates in ms64. a slightly different story.
My Morgan set looks like hell because I bought whatever I liked at the time so I have PCGS in 8 different kinds & colors of holders, monster toners in ACG PhotoSlabs, NGC Sample Slabs, ANACS etc and all the rest along with raw & DMPL, regular MS etc. That wouldn't work if I were making a Registry Set.