Picture Post: Do you collect commems with a specific theme?

SDCollector

Do you collect commems with a particular theme? Let's seem some pics.

I just replaced my Stone Mountain with a recently acquired Bay Bridge. Here's my western theme commems.

Baley

With 4 spaces to work with in the Dansco 7070, I'd be interested to see what choices other type set collectors make.

SD, mine is similar to yours...

SDCollector

As always, very nice Baley. With the four openings, the Dansco album presents a fun choice for collectors on what to include. Hope we can see some more pics...either in or out of albums.

Forgot to add: and I like Baley's Discover, Settlement, Western Expansion, and San Diego theme.

BaronVonBaugh

I just put the first four modern commemoratives in my type set. Washington, Statue of Liberty, Congress, Mount Rushmore

Baley

Ahh, Baron, a Patriotic theme. Nicely done! Pics?

FatMan

When I started with my commem set, it was my goal to put together a set of "Headless Commems". So many just have big fat heads on the obverse. In my "Headless" set some heads were allowed as long as they were attached to more than a neck. For example: Lee and Jackson are acceptable on the Stone Mtn whereas Lee and McCleland are not on the Antietam.

Some Headless Commems





Get the idea. Although I have since changed my position and have expanded to a complete type set.

FullHorn

Toned, Circulated and affordable

FatMan

<< <i>Toned, Circulated and affordable >>

Fullhorn,

You forgot Beautiful!

SDCollector

Fullhorn, affordable is always a good theme!

FatMan, love the headless idea. Never would have thought of that.

wam98

Since there's no Stone Mtn.,I'll put one up.

SDCollector

Very nice Wayne. I sold my Stone Mtn. in order to buy the Bay Bridge. Now I wish I would have just kept it. I really like that design and it's very affordable in the collector grades.

FatMan

<< <i>Fullhorn, affordable is always a good theme! FatMan, love the headless idea. Never would have thought of that. >>

Affordability is the big plus to the Headless Set. Most of the Commem Keys are excluded. A nice MS64 set could be put together with only three or four over $300. XF-AU is very affordable. And the best part is most of the desireable designs are included.

My original set design was 21 types. I later included 3 more because the heads represented symbolic figures and one with a half portrait. These are optional. The Missouri adds another Key so if affordability is the issue I would exclude these.

The Official Headless Silver Commemorative Set:

Panama-Pacific Exposition 1915 *key date*
Maine Centenial 1920
Lexington-Concord Sesquicentennial 1925
Stone Mountain Memorial 1925
California Diamond Jubilee 1925
Oregon Trail Memorial 1926-1939
Texas Independence Centennial 1934-1938
Connecticut Tercentenary 1935
Hudson NY Sesquicentennial 1935 *semi key date*
California-Pacific Exposition 1935-1936 (San Diego)
Old Spanish Trail 1935 *semi key date*
Providence RI Tercentenary 1936
Wisconsin Centennial 1936
York County Maine Tercentenary 1936
Albany NY Charter 250th Anniversary 1936
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge 1936
Columbia SC Sesuicentennial 1936
Deleware Tercentenary 1936
Norfolk VA Bicentennial 1936
New Rochelle NY 250th Anniversary 1938
Iowa Statehood Centennial 1946

Optional w/justification:

Pilgrim Tercentenary 1920-1921 (Half portrait, not a bust or head)
Missouri Centennial 1921 (A Frontiersman - Symbolic figure) *key date*
Arkansas Centennial 1935-1939 (Liberty and Indian Chief - Symbolic figures)
Elgin Ill Centennial 1936 (Pioneer - Sybollic figure)

Iwog

The California collection:

California
Bay Bridge
San Diego
Panama Pacific
Monroe Doctrine

The Civil War collection

Antietam
Gettysburg
Grant
Illinois
Stone Mountain

techeff

A very underrated series... A good investment IMO.

FatMan

Another theme is Ships

Columbian Exposition
Pilgrim Tercentenary
Huguenot-Walloon Tercentenary
Hudson NY Sequicentennial
Long Island Tercentenary
Delaware Tercentenary
Norfolk VA Bicentennial


Edited because I'm stupid.

Iwog

Aren't you forgetting a ship?

FatMan

<< <i>Aren't you forgetting a ship? >>

Doh! How embarassing

I thought for sure I had that listed. Oops.

USAROK

Fats - I really love that Bay Bridge. It jumped right at me as I was scrolling through this thread. A pretty strong leap considering some of the other pictures on display in this thread. I sure do like the Early Commemorative series!