Could you be totally satisfied if you put together a really nice set,
saintguru
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of a very hard series, in extraordinary grades, but stopped at 90% complete. Factors would be that the remaining half-dozen coins in acceptable grades to compliment your set wer all $75K or higher???
You would still have over a dozen very key dates....
Just a semi-hypothetical question?
You would still have over a dozen very key dates....
Just a semi-hypothetical question?
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If I couldn't complete the set, I'd never get to 90%. I'd sell all but my favorite and do a type set, or I'd be like Roadrunner and just buy a few nice examples of lots of different series.
roadrunner
I'm curious about this statement. Why wouldn't you go ahead and pick these up?
COMPLETION is an OCD issue...and it's ONE that I don't have...the other 36 isues I subscribe to whole-heartedly.
Yeah, Yeah? I got blistas on me fingas....
JB - Completion is something that takes TIME,PATIENCE and LOVE.
You Can Do It !!!!!
Stewart
A "grouping" is just too "touchy-feely" for me.
Saintguru: With the exception of Stew and Tradedollarnut and just a very few others here, this quotation from the future (Spock in Star Trek) may very well apply:
"Having is after all not such a pleasing thing as wanting. It is not logical but it is often true."
It seems that too often once a set a completed there is nothing else left to do but to sell the set as the collector now wants to pursue new frontiers. I have been there as well over 20 years ago!! That is why I will NEVER try to do "complete" sets ever again. More importantly see my comments that follow;
So while you may never complete your set due to the 1933, you have a shot at the rest of the set even if it is a lifetime endeavor. Isn't coin collecting supposed to be a lifetime endeavor?
I also direct this question to Stew and TDNas well as others; would you guys and gals have given up on completing your favorite complete sets if it had taken an extra 5, 10 or even 20 years to complete it?
Spock...that's the best you can do??
Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?
I wish it had taken longer for me to get to where I am now ... coins come along so infrequently that I tend to get quite bored. However, I don't really consider the sets as complete - there are always new coins to add! Why, just this month PCGS graded an 1870-CC in MS64 and NGC did the same to an 1855.
I believe Ringo had the blisters on his fingers. Not John.
RegistryNut
<< <i>JB,
I believe Ringo had the blisters on his fingers. Not John.
RegistryNut >>
Ringo had just played an amazing drum solo on the song Helter Skelter. At the end of the song he utters
his famous line.
RegistryNut
Why would I want to bother to pick them up? A complete set is a marketing tool imo. One doesn't have to complete anything to be a collector. John Ford must not have amounted to much as a collector since none of his collections are represented in Registry sets. I don't even know if he had complete sets.
I'd want my "set" to be special. Common coins don't do that for me since anyone can get them. Nor would I go the route of pop top common dates in MS67 or MS68 just to say I had the best. I'd much rather have a rarer date in finest known condition, even if only an MS64 or MS65. When I had all the key dates then in my mind the set was complete. The fact that I didn't have some common dates would not mean much to me. And as Oreville hinted, I don't want to be beholden to some "complete set mystique." I'd rather own 20 scattered rare date seated coins than a complete set of something with many common dates. Must be why runs of common proofs just never exited me. I'd rather have a few rare Mint State pieces. Proofs were saved as were common dates.
roadrunner
I can not bring myself to put AG3 or even a VF20 coins in a set of AU55/58's for the asthetics (but I might take a special one as a single).
Although my financial situations could change, I am not expecting to complete my Barber Quarter set (Choice AU/Unc) due mostly to the 01s, but probably a couple others as well ... nor my Standing Lib' set (also Choice AU/Unc) due to the 16. There are a couple other stoppers in other sets I have been working on over the years ...
As a trick to my own desire to have them all (when that rears its head), I sometimes concentrate on completing far eneough to have at least one for each date (with all the mints represtented but not all the issues accounted for), or every date from a particular mint (kind of like a board members recent request to have an O mint Morgan Registry).
Being the addict that I am, tricking myself is sometimes the only way!!
p.s. always enjoy reading your thoughts JB, even if I don't respond much
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
You clearly have the wherewithall to complete what for many of us would be sets beyond our reach. Did you ever think about a nice set of Walkers? There is much similarity between them and the Saints, if you look at it from a purely design perspective.
Whatever you choose, only you can be happy with HOW you collect. It if for none of us to tell you what should make you happy. To me the registry is just a means to be able to share information concerning our sets. Too many beautiful sets sit in dark rooms and vaults where no one can see them, just because they are so valuable. Good luck Collecting!
Now...who hear wants to start a cookie jar collection? Warhol did...why can't I??
Oh, RN...you think John never had blistas on HIS fingas??
Happiness is a warm, yes it is, gun
Ah, don't you know that
Happiness is a warm gun mama
Hopefully you can save enough money to buy one of those elusive coins within the next two years. Then another in the following three years. But do not go into debt to do it.
<< <i>I'm curious about this statement. Why wouldn't you go ahead and pick these up?
Why would I want to bother to pick them up? A complete set is a marketing tool imo. One doesn't have to complete anything to be a collector. John Ford must not have amounted to much as a collector since none of his collections are represented in Registry sets. I don't even know if he had complete sets.
I'd want my "set" to be special. Common coins don't do that for me since anyone can get them. Nor would I go the route of pop top common dates in MS67 or MS68 just to say I had the best. I'd much rather have a rarer date in finest known condition, even if only an MS64 or MS65. When I had all the key dates then in my mind the set was complete. The fact that I didn't have some common dates would not mean much to me. And as Oreville hinted, I don't want to be beholden to some "complete set mystique." I'd rather own 20 scattered rare date seated coins than a complete set of something with many common dates. Must be why runs of common proofs just never exited me. I'd rather have a few rare Mint State pieces. Proofs were saved as were common dates.
roadrunner >>
Thanks for your insight. I didn't say there was anything wrong with it. I was just trying to understand your approach to a set. I know series collectors and key date collectors. Now it seems I know a "series key date" collector. I just never thought about collecting that way.
You're exceedingly intelligent, ambitious, and -- don't laugh, this is important -- obsessive. With those three things, you can do it, i.e., you CAN earn the bread you need to complete your set. You just have to start obsessing in the right direction.
"Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall. For he who gets hurt will be he who has stalled."
Warm regards,
Just Having Fun
I'd enjoy it at 90%. As Stewart said, have some patience and finish it over many YEARS. If you really love the series, you can just hoard, like I do and never have a complete set.
Now I don't want to say I am done..I am NOT!! I'm in "PAUSE" mode now..but every single addition I make will simply be a step closer to where I already am!
the tao that can be told is not the eternal tao
YEAAAAAAAAH BAAAAABY!!
<< <i>RR...EXACTLY! Inasmuch as I do have as many coins I could find in high grades, there seems to be a deficit in my treasury that is not being funded by any federal agency...therefore I have hit the wall...and until I figure out a way to simply "free up" a million or two, it's a 87% complete set...but, (wait, let me pat my back), I think it's one hell of a set!
Now...who hear wants to start a cookie jar collection? Warhol did...why can't I??
Oh, RN...you think John never had blistas on HIS fingas??
Happiness is a warm, yes it is, gun
Ah, don't you know that
Happiness is a warm gun mama >>
JB,
I've got a feeling. A feeling deep inside. That,yes, he probably did.
RegistryNut
and then...