What is the greatest Registry Set?

speety · May 16, 2007 6:10AM

So...what do you think? For current sets I'd have to vote for TDN's seated dollar set or the California 1 Morgan set (which can't be viewed, grrr). For all-time sets, TDN's Seated and Trade dollars come to mind but i don't know much about the older sets. Let me know your thought.

Currin · May 16, 2007 8:02AM

For an all time list, The Cardinal Early Dollars were fantastic set. I have the ANR auction catalog. The entire set sold at auction in 2005 for over 5.2 million. Amazingly, there were only 61 lots.. Ronnie

LindeDad · May 16, 2007 8:32AM

The Legend trade dollar set is great.
And my personal favorite is the group of Half Dollar Proof sets that Parke Kellenberg has Kennedys going all the way back to the Liberty Seated proofs his sets are top of line.

tradedollarnut · May 16, 2007 9:06AM

My favorite set isn't even on the Registry. It's the only set I'd pay money to see ... the Pogue Collection of early american coinage.

speety · May 16, 2007 9:44AM

TDN i had a feeling you'd say that. They have the Childs 1804 dollar and the J-1776 right?

tradedollarnut · May 16, 2007 10:03AM

Childs and Dexter 1804's, but not J-1776. That is in a St Gaudens gold collection in New England.

Fairlaneman · May 16, 2007 10:51PM

Sorry TDN and others. This is it for me.

Joshua Merc Set All but 6 coins are Pop Top at PCGS.

Ken

Nysoto · May 17, 2007 2:33AM

Lots of great sets in both the PCGS and NGC registries. The locked sets and those without pictures are worthless to the viewing public, unless you like looking at numbers.

This set is incredible Hesselgesser Early Dollars by die variety An early US die variety set takes years to build, this is one of the great ones.

SmallEagle · May 17, 2007 8:37AM

I know it's "locked" but the High Desert Complete Type Set is by far my favorite. On average it contains approximately the 12th highest ranked coin of each of the 139 types that are registered with PCGS. That includes the 1792 Half Disme, 1793 Chain Cent, 1796 quarter, 1796-1797 half dollar, 1796 $2.5, 1808 $2.5, both types of Stella, 1795 $5 and $10.

Parkekal · May 17, 2007 9:38AM

Linedad, that is very kind of you. There are so many great sets out there. Good news is that I finally finished with a photographer shooting my entire half dollar collection so I hope to post all of the pictures before July. Right now the set runs from 1856 through today with over 100 top pop coins.

keoj · May 17, 2007 12:17PM

In my mind, the best set is TDN's Trade Dollar Set. Just take a look at the number of single top pops in this set (all but one date fall into this category). Duckor's Half Dollar set is right up there as well (TDN's Seated Dollar set is awesome as well).

keoj

RYK · May 17, 2007 1:18PM

I vote for TDN's seated dollar set. I have seen it, and it is wonderful.

garsmith · May 17, 2007 5:19PM

I like all the Alergar registry sets, but I have to admit bias because they are mine

STONE · May 17, 2007 8:20PM

Yes, Yes, TDN has some super Seated and Trade Dollars, there's no debate about that. But, I have a different set that I believe is better.

This set is better in a number of ways: number of coins needed, age of the coins, condition of all coins, and amount completed to name a few. The set I'm talking about is the ESM collection of "U.S. Cents Complete Set (1793-Present)". I mean, with 745 coins needed for completion, coins dating back to 1793, the lowest grade being an F-12 (with most being MS+++ or sliders), and the fact that he's more than 90% complete is just astronomical.

ESM has my vote.

saintguru · May 18, 2007 2:27AM

OK..TDN's

Duckor Barber Half and Saints
Jack Lee I Morgans
The Cardinal Collection
JHF SLQ's

just to name a few of my favorites.

One significant observationI have made regarding Stewart's, which puts them beyond most ppeople's imagination. I think that if you looked for someone who has to have the absolutley BEST coin for the grade in every date, it's him. Stewart doesn't just get the top pop and stop there. He'll scour every one he can find and keep the best (sometimes more than one of the best).

His sets are like his sculptures. He's continually working on making it as perfect as humanly possible, not settling for the numbers and insert game. I have said that he's possibly the greatest collector of our time. I still believe that to be true.

ajia · May 20, 2007 4:27AM

Going in a different direction.
Maybe not the greatest Registry Set ever, but one that impresses me is High Desert's Complete U.S. Type Set (1792-1964)
The ONLY set to be 100% complete, and a set rating of 63.96, it must be an incredable set.
Too bad we can't see it.

Boom · May 20, 2007 6:48AM

The greatest Registry set is the one any collector has poured him or herself into, settling for nothing less than PQ coins for whatever grade obtainable within their comfort range and OWN lock, stock and barrel!(Zero Debt)

roadrunner · May 20, 2007 10:09AM

TDN and company are certainly the best of the best.

I'd also like to see what "IBM" Gene has put together so far on his seated rarities collection.

roadrunner

elwood · May 22, 2007 8:40PM

Jim McGuigans Half Cents.

I'm not familiar with most of the greatest Registry Sets but I doubt that many of them have taken as long to complete as Jims set.

What is the greatest Registry Set?

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