With about 400 coins and medals, I would speculate that I may have difficulty getting to a box of 20, and that is not including 90 pounds of pre '82 Lincolns and boxes of statehood quarters
Actually, if I can bend RYK's rules a bit, I could live with a box of 21 that would include four date sets of pre 1840 US coins, both gold and silver:
Flowing hair halves 1794, 1795 Draped bust, HE halves 1801-1807 Capped bust left $5 gold 1807-1812 Classic head $5 gold with mm 1834-1838
I plan on keeping the above sets when I sell my varieties, I don't think my children will mind when they inherit them
Robert Scot: Engraving Liberty - biography of US Mint's first chief engraver
<< <i> Hey RYK The concept doesn't trouble me at all. The idea of changing the playing field to make it fit is a little amusing though as some of us have noticed >>
I didn't change the "playing field". It's actually a consistent sub set of gold coinage. The weight was changed in 1834 so the 1795-1834 gold coins are one standard and the 1834-1933 are another (and yes I know about the finenes issues of 1837 but the AGW remained the same). This is a consistent type set that just happens to be 20 coins.
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Actually, if I can bend RYK's rules a bit, I could live with a box of 21 that would include four date sets of pre 1840 US coins, both gold and silver:
Flowing hair halves 1794, 1795
Draped bust, HE halves 1801-1807
Capped bust left $5 gold 1807-1812
Classic head $5 gold with mm 1834-1838
I plan on keeping the above sets when I sell my varieties, I don't think my children will mind when they inherit them
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Hey RYK
The concept doesn't trouble me at all.
The idea of changing the playing field to make it fit is a little amusing though
as some of us have noticed
I didn't change the "playing field". It's actually a consistent sub set of gold coinage. The weight was changed in 1834 so the 1795-1834 gold coins are one standard and the 1834-1933 are another (and yes I know about the finenes issues of 1837 but the AGW remained the same). This is a consistent type set that just happens to be 20 coins.
Words for a collector to live by.
3c 1851
5c 1838-1860
10c 1838-1891, 1892-1909
25c 1840-1891, 1892-1909
50c 1839, 1840-1861, 1892-1909
S$1 1846-1860, 1879-1904
G$1 1849-1853, 1855
$2.5 1839, 1840-1857
$3 1854
$5 1840-1894, 1909
$10 1840-1906
$20 1850-1879
<< <i>Philadelphia WL halves 1916-1921 and 1934-1947. >>
The first 20 years of the Lincoln series
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<< <i>Philadelphia WL halves 1916-1921 and 1934-1947. >>
The first 20 years of the Lincoln series
The Philly WL's are actually a set with 20 coins.