Have you ever started a new Registry Set because ....

mercurydimeguy

... you have a couple of PCGS slabbed coins laying around that can start a new set ... and before long you get sucked in and decide to build a set?

I did with my 1935 mint set...then I rationlized that decision with, "well, it's 2005...this can be a 70 year set"

Cocoinut

I did the same thing with my 1939 mint set. I had all but 4 of the coins needed to complete the set, so I finished it off.

I had been a colIector long before anyone thought of a registry, and tended to buy whatever caught my eye, with no clear goal of completing sets. Thus, I had what I considered to be "starter" mint state sets in Lincolns, Buffaloes, Mercuries (now nearly complete), silver Washingtons (completed in 2002), Standing Liberty quarters, Walkers, Franklins, lots of different dates of proof Lincolns, Jeffersons, Mercuries, and Washingtons, and a good assortment of type coins. I'm slowly adding to the unfinished sets, but realistically, many of them will never be completed unless I win the lottery.

Jim

orie

Happened to me with the Philippines Peso set. Collected the 2 commems and the lg and sm examples. Then damn, had to have the rest.