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For SG $20 collectors, has or will the '33 be considered necessary for a complete set?
IGWT
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I say "yes" because I certainly don't have to worry about it, and I want to see the big boys squirm. 
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David
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
You might want to treat Joan Langbord to lunch, too, just to hedge your bet.
Course, I suppose the ultimate test is if the Whitman boards have a hole for one.
MBT
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
You mean the same folks who decided what coins are necessary to form a pattern set?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
if some big boys are building sets they should have bought it when it was sold by stacks in auction
$20 Saint Gaudens Registry Set
If “legal tender” is the standard for completeness, it will come as news to those who are building Trade Dollar sets.
<< <i>If “legal tender” is the standard for completeness, it will come as news to those who are building Trade Dollar sets.
Trade dollars (except for perhaps the '85) have been legal tender since 1965.
There is one legal tender 1933 Saint. That makes any set without it incomplete. However, as I wrote above, there is no shame in incompleteness. saintguru's collection remains impressive, despite its lack of a 1933.
<< <i>If you don't have the 1933, you can NOT have a complete set. This was a real business strike coin. You don't need the 1913 Liberty nickel to have a complete set or the 1884 and 1885 trade dollars for a complete set since these were never real coins. They were fantasy fabrications of the "midnight minters" and not official issues of the US mint. >>
Actually, the 1884's were legitimate creations of the US Mint.... ten were saved and the balance melted.
Currently it is not really required, but if I had the cash and the ability I would have it in my complete set.....