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What is your dream set?

Brianruns10Brianruns10 Posts: 227 ✭✭
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Everyone,
suppose you had unlimited financial resources. Obviously, everyone would like to be the guy to put together the second complete sets of coins, so that aside, what set would you build with the money. Me-I would build a complete set of double eagles 1850-1933 (1849 if I can find a greedy smithsonian official or congressman) in top grade, and then have Capitol Plastics build me a custom holder for them all. That'd be a huge holder, but I didn't say logic need apply.
Best,
BR

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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,355 ✭✭✭✭✭
    suppose you had unlimited financial resources.

    Whoa! No way! I could just not IMAGINE being STEWARTBLAY!!!!
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    A complete set of sample slabs.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • Betta285Betta285 Posts: 733
    MS70 U.S. Type Set W/ Gold!!
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    My dream set would be the proof Kennedy short set as follows:

    1964 proof Kennedy in PR70DCAM
    1964 proof Accented Hair Kennedy in PR69DCAM
    1965 SMS Kennedy in MS68DCAM
    1966 SMS Kennedy in MS68DCAM
    1967 SMS Kennedy in MS69DCAM
    1968-S Kennedy in PR70DCAM
    1969-S Kennedy in PR70DCAM
    1970-S Kennedy in PR70DCAM

    All the money in the world wouldn't buy it, though, since five of the coins have not yet been graded at the levels listed.

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,164 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My dream set, which I am very close to completing, would be a complete liberty seated dollar set [ie: Gobrecht, Seated and Trade dollars] from 1836 to 1885. Each would be of outstanding quality and eye appeal.

    The only other set out there that tempts me is the Bust Dollars, but Cardinal and others have done mighty fine jobs already on that.
    Early Dollar Set
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,187 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Jack Lee Morgan set for me!!!
    theknowitalltroll;
  • rainbowroosierainbowroosie Posts: 4,875 ✭✭✭✭
    I need an unimprovable 50S rainbow and a 61P to complete my dream set....
    "You keep your 1804 dollar and 1822 half eagle -- give me rainbow roosies in MS68."
    rainbowroosie April 1, 2003
  • UnimentalUnimental Posts: 244
    A full set of circulation strike Walkers... blazing white and MS65+.
    You shout in your sleep.
    Perhaps the price is just too steep.
    Is your conscience at rest if once put to the test?
    You awake with a start to just the beating of your heart.
    Just one man beneath the sky,
    Just two ears, just two eyes.
  • ursabearursabear Posts: 1,888
    Without a doubt, a full set of high MS FB and high Prf Winged Liberty Dimes.

  • JrGMan2004JrGMan2004 Posts: 7,557 ✭
    Joshua II's Merc Set.... *drool*
    -George
    42/92
  • LincolnCentManLincolnCentMan Posts: 5,347 ✭✭✭✭
    Complete set of buisness strike cents: 1792-date. I'd want the large cents in XF or better, the indians in MS63 or better, and the lincolns in MS65/66/67 brown from 1909-1929 and straight 67RD from 1930-1958.

    As it stands, I have a similar lifetime goal:
    Lincolns:
    1934-1958 Straight PCGS MS66RD or better (accomplished)
    1930-1933 PCGS or NGC MS65RD or better (in the works, two away... guess which two)
    1909-1929 PCGS or NGC MS64/65/66 Brown (in the works, ten away from MS, need a few in higher grades... and a few others need to be "upgraded" to brown)

    Indians/Flying eagles
    I havent totally decided what I want to do here, but the absolute lowest grade I'd except would be XF45. I'll probably go for MS63BN or better. I probably wont be as color specific with this set.

    Large cents:
    I'd want the later dates in MS64BN or better. I'd take the keys in what ever I could find/afford. On the early ones, I'd want most to be VG or better... preferably VF or better.

    David
    Lincolncentman Toned Lincolns
  • KlectorKidKlectorKid Posts: 3,723 ✭
    Complete set of early gold in all denoms image
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  • BladeBlade Posts: 1,744 ✭
    An uncirculated US Type Set would do just fine, but with a twist. Key dates for each type. 1861-D gold dollar. 1848 Cal quarter eagle. I don't need the super rare ones (like an 1885 Trade dollar or 1933 $20) but nicer key dates would be cool.
    Tom

    NOTE: No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

    Type collector since 1981
    Current focus 1855 date type set
  • 12345678901234567890 Posts: 395
    A US Type Set w/Gold, all Key Dates, all pop tops.
    ~Richard Dorrance
  • foodudefoodude Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭
    I would settle for the King Of Siam set.
    Greg Allen Coins, LLC Show Schedule: https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/573044/our-show-schedule-updated-10-2-16 Authorized dealer for NGC, PCGS, CAC, and QA. Member of PNG, RTT (Founding Platinum Member), FUN, MSNS, and NCBA (formerly ICTA); Life Member of ANA and CSNS. NCBA Board member. "GA3" on CCE.
  • LouisLouis Posts: 3,687
    Eliasberg's
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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    I won't be too greedy, I'll take a proof indian cent set in 65RD and above with varieties.
    coinimaging.com/my photography articles Check out the new macro lens testing section
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Complete set half eagles 1795-1929, including unconfirmed 41-O.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • ccexccex Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭
    I dream of a complete set of Barber dimes, quarters, and halves in uncleaned AU and proofs in 65 or better. I'm getting close on the dimes (1894-S not necessary), but will have to keep dreaming on the quarters and proofs.

    If my dream set seems too cheap or mundane, I would also accept a winning registry set of U.S. type coins (complete, with all those pesky 18th century issues and gold) or any of the famous sets mentioned above by others. I think I have a hard time dreaming about money not being an object, though.
    "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity" - Hanlon's Razor
  • mercurynutmercurynut Posts: 3,207
    A complete set of PF68 Mercury dimes.
  • oldcameoproofsguyoldcameoproofsguy Posts: 3,174 ✭
    An 1873 proof and business strike set including the gold.
  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,164 ✭✭✭✭✭
    An 1873 proof and business strike set including the gold.

    image Including the arrow varieties, of course?
    Early Dollar Set
  • dollardudedollardude Posts: 1,263
    A complete set of flowing hair and bust silver dollars in MS63. image
    Author of MrKelso's official cheat thread words of wisdom on 5/30/04. image
    imageimage
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  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,425 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A complete set of dimes in the highest grades possible with the resources left over in case another should come out of the wood work and grade higher than a example that is already purchased. This includes the 94S also.

    The 20S in the Joshua Set would be had one way or the other. Very Stupid Money would be paid for this coin.

    Color would be nice also.

    Ken
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Finest known set of proof walking halfs.
  • haletjhaletj Posts: 2,192 ✭
    a nice set of pennies... like this...
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  • CarlWohlforthCarlWohlforth Posts: 11,074 ✭
    I with the type set crowd. Considering I'm missing coins like a chain cent, a Gobrecht dollar, a Stella, early gold, a high relief Saint and a Half Disme I think I would be happy to forgo the key date part image
    Carl's Coins website w/ links to Carl's auctions
  • NysotoNysoto Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A complete set of Flowing Hair and Draped Bust half dollars 1794-1807 by Overton variety. I will never complete this set, no person has ever completed the set, but there are a lot of satisfying accomplishments along the way - overdates, errors, cool die states. Only a handful of collectors are even 50% complete. A very underrated series of some truly rare coins.
    Robert Scot: Engraving Liberty - biography of US Mint's first chief engraver
  • NumismanicNumismanic Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭
    A complete set of Standing Liberty quarters in MS 65FH or better.
    Don

    U.S. Nickels Complete Set with Major Varieties, Circulation Strikes

    U.S. Dimes Complete Set with Major Varieties, Circulation Strikes

  • BigMooseBigMoose Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭
    IF I had unlimited funds, I would become fast friends with TDN, and would also become his personal physician, gratis, of course, then patiently wait until he tired of his Seated Dollars, Gobrechts, and Trade Dollars, and buy the completed collections from him.
    TomT-1794

    Check out some of my 1794 Large Cents on www.coingallery.org
  • partagaspartagas Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭
    A complete 1866 type set. Including the no motto seated coins. Now thats my dream. Throw in gold maybe for a kicker.
    If I say something in the woods, and my wife isn't around. Am I still wrong?
  • CnitasCnitas Posts: 373


    << <i>MS70 U.S. Type Set W/ Gold!! >>



    Sounds good to me!
    (I might need to add a PCGS MS70)
    Mark Piersall
    Random Collector
    www.marksmedals.com
  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,317 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have several but my #1 dream set is the reeded edge half dollar set in 64 and 65...

    1836 1837 1838 1838-O 1839 and 1839-O...

    Very short.... Very hard...

    siliconvalleycoins.com

  • jbstevenjbsteven Posts: 6,178 ✭
    Eliasberg's whole collection intact.
  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    An 1873 proof and business strike set including the gold.

    Yea, verily.

    I'd like to do the Harry X. Boozel thing to the nth degree and get all varieties and mintmarks from 1873.
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    Obscurum per obscurius

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