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DAMDAM Posts: 2,410 ✭✭
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... open up your sets for all to see.

I for one promise not to buy, or mark up the price for, the coin(s) you need. image
Dan

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  • foodudefoodude Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭
    Mine has always been open, and I intend to eventually get pics posted as well.
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  • wondercoinwondercoin Posts: 16,979 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I will personally only open a set where I have no intention of "stepping up" and paying "big money" for the coins I still need. Hence, my MS Kennedy collection and MS Roosie collection have always been open. On the other hand, I would only entertain the possibility of opening up my Wash quarter set if PCGS offered to make it a Hall of Fame Collection next June (my understanding is the Hall of Fame collections must be opened up to accept the award) and I wanted the award.

    Everyone has a different take on it and I understand why someone else would love to show off the particular coins in their collection. But, to me, the "roadmap" to hold me hostage for a particular coin ends with knowing I am serious about a particular series, not with the seller knowing I desparately need the coin he just made. image

    Wondercoin
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  • DAMDAM Posts: 2,410 ✭✭


    << <i>But, to me, the "roadmap" to hold me hostage for a particular coin ends with knowing I am serious about a particular series, not with the seller knowing I desparately need the coin he just made. >>


    Point well taken. Those that hold others hostage like this should be flogged. image

    Foodude,

    In the past couple of days I've added a lot of images to my Type Sets. I'm using a scanner now, with hopes of getting a digital camera soon. I'm sooo lazy. image Then I'll start all over again.
    Dan
  • wondercoinwondercoin Posts: 16,979 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Point well taken. Those that hold others hostage like this should be flogged."

    DAM: I just received a call from a top #1 open set collector in a series who deeply regrets ever opening up his/her collection in the first place. It's a trade off - if you desire all the benefits of an open set (including collectors going nuts for all the great coins in your set and the personal enjoyment of seeing all the "pop tops" lined up so nicely), then you accept the burdens as well. But, if you are a disciplined collector, perhaps your reply is you would never be "held hostage" because you would only pay so much for a coin regardless of whether anyone knew you needed it or not. I feel that way as it pertains to Roosies and Kennedys and so I truly enjoy my open sets. image

    Wondercoin


    Please visit my website at www.wondercoins.com and my ebay auctions under my user name www.wondercoin.com.
  • dbldie55dbldie55 Posts: 7,735 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Seems to me letting someone know who owns the set is the only stupid thing for those that do not want to be held "hostage". The person with that pop 1 coin can contact the owners of the top sets without seeing their sets. They can accept or decline. Having the set open makes no difference. The only way to avoid it is to not let anyone know who owns it.

    At least we are only worrying about a boring series here.
    Collector and Researcher of Liberty Head Nickels. ANA LM-6053
  • wondercoinwondercoin Posts: 16,979 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dbldie: Obviously, the person with a pop 1 coin KNOWS every set needs it. I have personally found the issue arises on the pop 2-5 coins in particular.

    Wondercoin
    Please visit my website at www.wondercoins.com and my ebay auctions under my user name www.wondercoin.com.
  • RELLARELLA Posts: 961 ✭✭✭
    Open OnRutton

    Quite probably open for a limited time only.

    RELLA

    (BTW...this is not my set, I just linked to it)
    Do not fall into the error of the artisan
    who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft
    while in fact he has had only one year of experience...
    twenty times.
  • BigJackBigJack Posts: 23
    Excuse me Mr. RELLA (is that Italian?),

    That must be an old link since it shows that set to be the #1 All-Time set but it is really the #2 All-Time set. image
  • RELLARELLA Posts: 961 ✭✭✭
    How strange...the link is to a new page since this is the first time that I have noticed this set open for viewing. Must just be a glitch in the software. image

    RELLA
    Do not fall into the error of the artisan
    who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft
    while in fact he has had only one year of experience...
    twenty times.
  • RobgettyRobgetty Posts: 1,112
    I'd love to look at the top sets just to be able to admire the
    sets and be green with envy. I even raised the point at the
    Baltimore ANA with David Hall. I guess that we just have to
    (reluctantly) respect the privacy of the set owners.
    Robert Getty - Lifetime project to complete the finest collection of 1872 dated coins.
  • DAMDAM Posts: 2,410 ✭✭


    << <i>I guess that we just have to (reluctantly) respect the privacy of the set owners. >>



    Perhaps, but what's the point of taking up space if it's going to be 5 years before your set is complete (to your satisfaction). There are collectors receiving recognition for having a Finest Known Set. If it's the finest, let us know what's in the set. Especially Type Sets.

    Dan
  • dbldie55dbldie55 Posts: 7,735 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Excuse me Mr. RELLA (is that Italian?),

    That must be an old link since it shows that set to be the #1 All-Time set but it is really the #2 All-Time set. image >>



    Is this better?



    << <i>Open OnRutton

    Perhaps we should make it number 10 instead:



    << <i>Open OnRutton

    Collector and Researcher of Liberty Head Nickels. ANA LM-6053
  • RELLARELLA Posts: 961 ✭✭✭
    image<--link

    RELLA
    Do not fall into the error of the artisan
    who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft
    while in fact he has had only one year of experience...
    twenty times.
  • egsantosegsantos Posts: 470

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    Edson
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