What do you think of this as a (registry) set?

Wekar

I've recently been working on an Excel spreadsheet for my type set, figuring out all the years and mintmarks for each type. I noticed there were quite a few types where a branch mint produced coins in only 1 year - not counting 1 year types like 1943 steelies.

I call this set "Branch Mints to the Rescue"™. The list is probably not entirely accurate, so feel free to rip on my poor data entry skills, but please opine on this set concept too

1851-O S3c Liberty Seated Small Star
1860-O h10c Liberty Seated Legend, 1.244g
1912-D 5c Liberty Head w/Cents
1912-S 5c Liberty Head w/Cents
1860-O S10c Liberty Seated Legend,38grains
1891-O S10c Liberty Seated Legend,39grains
1996-W 10c Roosevelt Cop-Nic
1875-S 20c Twenty Cents  
1840-O S25c Liberty Seated No Drapery
1855-S S25c Liberty Seated Drapery,Arrows
1873-CC S25c Liberty Seated Motto,Arrows
1891-O S25c Liberty Seated Motto
1917-D S25c Standing Liberty Bare Breast
1917-S S25c Standing Liberty Bare Breast
1839-O S50c Capped Bust HALF DOL.
1855-S S50c Liberty Seated Drapery,Arrows
1859-S S$1 Liberty Seated No Motto
1854-S G$1 Gold Dollar Liberty Head
1855-C G$1 Gold Dollar Ind Prin Small Head
1855-D G$1 Gold Dollar Ind Prin Small Head
1855-O G$1 Gold Dollar Ind Prin Small Head
1856-S G$1 Gold Dollar Ind Prin Small Head
1859-S G$1 Gold Dollar No Motto
1839-D G$2.5 Classic Head
1839-O G$2.5 Classic Head
1854-D G$3 Indian Princess
1854-O G$3 Indian Princess
1838-C G$5 Classic Head
1838-D G$5 Classic Head
1909-O G$5 Indian
1908-D G$10 Indian No Motto
1879-O G$20 Liberty TWENTY DOLLARS
1908-D G$20 St. Gaudens No Motto

There's 1 coin I just can't figure out either - 1838-O h10c Liberty Seated No Stars: it's not strictly a 1 year type because it was minted in 1837-1838, but Philly only made it in 1837 and N'awlens only made it in 1838. There's also probably a few Seated Liberty's you could rip out if you don't buy into weight as a type differentiation like I do - ie. 10c Drapery 2.673 grams vs. Drapery 2.488 grams.

RegistryCoin

I think collecting a set such as this would provide for an exciting educational experience. Obviously you have done a great deal of research in detail to learn about many series and to discover the one-year entries. A task of equal or greater challenge would be to assign a proposed weighting for each coin in this set.
A "set" can be defined as you determine, and I like this scenario. I am not sure about it becoming a popular reg. set, per se, but it does add to the suggestions, mentioned here before, that there should be a "DIY" (design it youself) reg. set with little or flexible parameters, so a collector can be recognized for imaginative sets such as yours. Good idea and good work!

michael

i love it one of the better ideas on this registry forum as of late

oreville

Agreed with both Michael and RegistryCoin.

Wekar

<< <i>A task of equal or greater challenge would be to assign a proposed weighting for each coin in this set. >>


hrm, I'd have to say that'll be quite a bit bigger challenge, as scanning down an excel spreadsheet looking for cells with only 1 year in them was pretty easy. I don't really understand how one should come up with weights, but I imagine it's a combination of price and number of surviving coins. Still, that's a good idea though, it'll give me something coin related to do while I wait for my coin budget to catch up again.



<< <i>I am not sure about it becoming a popular reg. set >>


I can't imagine it ever would either, the concept is a little weird I suppose, and there's some really tough coins in there. Like you said though registrycoin, I also think it's another kind of set that's a good excuse for PCGS creating a DIY registry set, so that people can put things like this together. I'm not sure if I'll ever complete this set myself, but I'm seriously considering trying to buy coins from this list for my US Type Set, and that would get me most of the way there - and the extras I'd need would give me something to do while trying to figure out how to get my grubby paws on a 1796 50c.

1907Quarter

cerebral-well done and VERY interesting. now how's about my design type idea?
each coin you mention probably was minted for your exact reason which absolutely reinforces your proposed set!!

1907Quarter

so why was the 96-w dime made!?