Odd Collection

Peetie

Has anyone ever assembled a collection of PCGS coins--Same Date--in all grades available?

Example-- 1932 Washington Quarter PCGS MS67
1932 Washington Quarter PCGS MS66
1932 Washington Quarter PCGS MS65

You get the idea..all the way down to the basement. Has anyone tried that or have heard of anyone accomplishing this?

Sounds crazy, I know, but just been thinking about this.

Russ

Eventually, I will achieve that with the Accented Hair Kennedy.

Russ, NCNE

Peetie

In G04 could you even tell if he had accented hair?

jonesy

That's a very novel idea. Just have to pick the coin.
Glenn

Russ

Petie,

You might be able to. It would depend on where the wear was located. Even when the hair detail is gone, there are some other diags to look at. As long as the I in Liberty isn't worn too flat, you'd still be able to tell. But, G04 might be too worn.

Besides, I was thinking about grades that have actually happened. So far, none are graded lower than PR62, and Marty did all three of those. I'll be kicking his low grade pop king butt as soon as my pocket piece gets worn enough.

Russ, NCNE

cladking

I've done even worse than that. When I was a kid I thought it would be neat to
collect the 1960-D bar nickels. This was one of those cute names given to the nickel
errors that had the letters of LIBERTY and the date connected to the rim. This was caused
by die deterioration. I've always collected everything by die variety
too, so soon I'd be looking for a coin with the LI&B connected with a doubled monticello
and doubled m/m. Eventually I came to realize that in effect this was a die state col-
lection of 60-D varieties. It's a fair sized collection so in all likelyhood there is also a
complete grade collection from MS-66 to G+ or so.






die deterioration rather than debris

Higashiyama

I am assembling a grade collection of Oregon Trail commens, although not all the same date.

At the moment I have 35, 61, 65, 66, and 68.

(as you might guess, the 35 is a lot more attractive than the 61!)

In mint state, actually, there is not much increase in eye appeal above MS65. A carefully chosen MS65 Oregon is a stunningly attractive coin.

Bear

There are no odd collections, only odd collectors.

tjkillian

Yes, I fact, I'm doing it with 1879-S Morgan Dollars. Currently I have MS-66 through MS-60, AU-55, & G-06. Basically we call them grading sets.

Tom

ARCO

Yes I have thought about it. I don't think I would care about the slab for grades below AU. I have always thought what kind of amazing achievement it would be to do that for a super key, say like the 1901-S quarter.

That would blow people's hair back!

I am going to try it for the 97-S barber half. Except I would stop at the MS grades as I would rather own a cabin in the utah mountains over a bunch of coins stuck in plastic Oh and I don't care if they are graded by PCGS or not.

Tyler

cladking

<< <i>There are no odd collections, only odd collectors. >>




Inspiring words indeed. I'm starting a new collection.

When planchets are punched out of clad strip the copper core is "smudged" across
the nickel cladding on the bottom of the strip. This allows you to know what orientation
the planchet had in the original strip.

It would seem to follow that coins with the "smudge" toward the reverse are "right side
up" and those with it toward the obverse are "up side down". I'm going to start collections
of each and see if perhaps there is some utility to the information.