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Does anyone here have a complete collection of all US coins from some year x to date? Who has the ol

AllCoinsRuleAllCoinsRule Posts: 2,444 ✭✭✭✭
Can be just mint state, just proof, or both. I was once close to having all of 1934-date, but have sold a lot of them to pay for some upgrades.

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  • speetyspeety Posts: 5,424
    I'd imagine the oldest current set would probably go back to 1916 or 1909. Many of the collectors of sets older than that have little to no interest in collecting all the current coins the mint is pumping out...

    I'll be interested to see responses though
    Want to buy an auction catalog for the William Hesslein Sale (December 2, 1926). Thanks to all those who have helped us obtain the others!!!

  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am thinking about doing 1793 to date (or 1964)

    Edit: I meant one coin per year, not every coin.
  • cameron12xcameron12x Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭
    Very few coins post-1964 interest me.

    Not due to any particular rarity, but for some reason I don't have a coin dated in the year 1852.
  • My goal, started in 1999, was to collect every coin and mint mark made for circulation (and the major series errors) between 1899 and 2001. Coins from THREE centuries!

    My main problem is I have gained other interests in the interim, which water down my resources needed for the major emphasis. However, I am getting pretty close, probably about 50 or 60 coins needed.

    Occassionally I toyed with pushing the set back to 1799, but that adds in a whole new set of challenges/expenses.

    Probably won't ever make it that far, though you never know...
    www.CoinMine.com
  • DeepCoinDeepCoin Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭
    The silver and copper coins from 1899 to 2001 would be doable with a few pricey coins, but the gold would be out of sight when you get to the rare Saints and I am excluding the 1933.
    Retired United States Mint guy, now working on an Everyman Type Set.
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Augie or Mr. Hall would be in the running over in the registry.
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,611 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The thought of getting ONE coin from each year from 1792 to date has crossed my mind. But doing it in Mint State would be out of the question. I've got a Mint State 1795 cent and a Mint State 1813 $5 gold piece, and I'm very lucky to have those coins. All of my other early coins are AU-58 or less.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • I currently have a year set of halves from 1892 to 2010...
    I am about 8 coins from having from 1858 to 2010.... I am talking year set only not each mm and everything...
    For each year and mintmark etc etc etc I have from 1910 to 2010 in Halves.

    Eventually I will have from 1794 to present in halves but i have to get over my dislike of capped bust halves image




  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,611 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can see where you would dislike the Bust half dollars in the 1830s. Some of the women on those coins were really tough looking, fat old women. But the 1807 and 1808 coins were pleasingly crude, and the pieces from the 'teens and '20s were actually fairly attractive.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    A complete collection of US coins might be too ambitious. Even if you limit yourself to circulation strikes, you'll find there are lots of coins involved in a complete collection of all coins. Billions of cents alone and it will be impractical to obtain them all.
    You should settle for something a little less ambitious, like one of each type.

    A little subgame you can play with US gold: It's fairly easy to obtain most Liberty issues back to the year 1878. Prior to that, there are plenty of scarce years. How many consecutive years earlier than 1878 does your gold go? Bizarre little challenge.
  • OverdateOverdate Posts: 7,136 ✭✭✭✭✭
    << Does anyone here have a complete collection of all US coins from some year x to date? Who has the oldest x? >>

    I have a complete collection of every coin struck from 2011 to date! image

    Seriously, it would be extremely difficult to have a complete collection going back past the year 1934.

    My Adolph A. Weinman signature :)

  • TevaTeva Posts: 830
    Thats a lot of work putting any complete set together.
    I like to do year sets or short mintages and I still can't
    get most of them the way I like to have them. I would bet there are a lot of type set out there .
    Give the laziest man the toughest job and he will find the easiest way to get it done.
  • I wonder how many folk have boh a 1972 P Variety II 2 dollar (listed in the Red Book)
    and a 1972 D type B ("proof" features) quarter (mentioned in the Red BooK)?
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  • DoubleDimeDoubleDime Posts: 647 ✭✭✭
    I have every regular issue non-gold coin from 1899 to date by date and mint. The last coin I needed was the 1901-S Quarter which I acquired in June 1983. Since then its keeping up with them as they come out.
  • BillyKingsleyBillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭
    I would love to be able to do that. It is, in affect, my ultimate goal. Right now I am just getting as many as I can in conditions I like when I can afford to.

    For cents, I have every Philadelphia minted coin from 1932-2009. For Denver mints, I have 1941-the third 2009 design. None of the other denominations give me a complete run anywhere close, excepting dimes, where I have back to 1963, and then it only works if you count both mints.

    All my sets need upgrades, however.

    BUT[/img], for the modern coins, (clad or for the cents, memorial) I am doing them all from circulation, only purchasing silver coins or wheats. (and some upgrades to the wheats)

    From circulation, just since 2008 alone, I have found every clad quarter except the 2009 Ds and either 2010 mint, for the dimes, I have found every example in circulation from the clad era except 2009 and 2010 D, and for the cents, I have found back to 1935 from Philadelphia, but Denver mints I have not gotten back as far with them.

    It is only the nickels that I have not yet found every date. I've been doing this since May of 2008 and I have not seen a 1944 from any mint, 1947 D, 1950, 1950 D, 1952 D, 1955, 1962, 1968, 1969, 2008 D, or any 2009 or 2010. Also I think I am missing some of the S mint coins from the end of the circulation San Fransisco mints, but my charts need to be updated to what I have found so I am not 100% sure.
    Billy Kingsley ANA R-3146356 Cardboard History // Numismatic History
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