Top 5 Registry Set owners - any series!

Bankerbob56

I often wonder what the owners of the top 5 Registry Sets in any series, does for a living? Given how expensive the coins get at these levels, I am just curious if these owners are mostly professional types, you know doctors, lawyers, hedge fund managers, etc. Any thoughts or insights? Any "Top Pop" registry players please chime in.

barrytrot

The top five in some series costs you under $1,000. Those guys could be anyone

Bankerbob56

<< <i>The top five in some series costs you under $1,000. Those guys could be anyone >>



Good point! I did not realize that!!

OchoReales

I'm Top Pop in the Palestine Mandate series (World). I have been putting the collection together for 24 years. During most of this time, I have been a full time coin dealer.

LindeDad

I have a couple and I do nothing anymore.

MFH

Currently # 1 in Barber Quarters [ 2009, 2010, 2011 ]
and # 3 in Barber Halves.

Interior Designer - now retired.

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raycyca

Retired military on fixed income. Made many of the low/top Pop's myself. Many with freebie submissions.

OnlyGoldIsMoney

Few collect my series - Liberty $2.50's by date and mintmark. Reaching the top 5 hardly breaks a sweat. The finest sets in my series are not even in the Registry.

fcloud

My #1 sets include
Dos Pesos
Presidential Dollars
Mercury Dimes variety set (no bands) (Thanks Larry for not posting your full band set in the no band side).
I have a bunch in the top 5.
I am a buyer for a merchandising company in the Midwest. I am also a dealer in which has some web sales along with the local shows in which I set up a table.
I would chalk some of these up to perseverance and time. I know in my case I don't have a fat wallet.

Caleb

High School student

sonoranmonsoon

I am retired from Real Estate Sales and options trading. I now own a small rustic lodge in the mountains, that still keeps me on my toes a bit.

giorgio11

Full-time writer and coin dealer

Bankerbob56

<< <i>Full-time writer and coin dealer >>



Giorgio please expound on your writing experience! Articles, technical, speeches, novels..... just curious!

DrPete

Making the top 5 in a set may be easy and inexpensive or expensive, or may be difficult and expensive to very expensive. There are some sets that might be difficult and not too expensive; there are a LOT of registry set categories out there. The most popular ones are the toughest to crack into the top 5.

My easiest top set was the simple purchase of an intact and PCGS-graded 1904 proof set. If you look at the registry listings for older proof sets (before 1936) any complete set would likely make the top five; there just aren't very many available or listed.

The hardest and most expensive (and most rewarding) has been the mint state Barber Half set. I was number three until numbers one and two retired their sets. I am a physician, a pathologist.

docg

#3 1932-1998 Washingtons
Emergency Physician

DennisH

Call me eclectic (and I'm mainly a Morgan VAM collector, except I don't have any Registry Sets of those!):

#1 -- Scotland Ryal, Circulation Strikes (1565-1571)
#2 -- Walking Liberty Half Dollars, Low Ball (1916-1947)
#3 -- Mexico "Caballito" Peso Complete Variety Set, Circulation Strikes (1910-1914)
#3 -- Walking Liberty Half Dollars Complete Variety Set, Circulation Strikes (1916-1947)
#4 -- Everyman Walking Liberty Half Dollars (1916-1947)
#4 -- Walking Liberty Half Dollars with Major Varieties, Circulation Strikes and Proofs (1916-1947)
#4 -- Jefferson Nickels Basic Set, Circulation Strikes (1938-1964)

Editor of a dairy farming magazine.

clackamas

Many of the high end set owners are not going to answer, you would probably have heard of them.

Me - I am the chief geek (founder) at an internet backup company.
#5 Jefferson War Nickels
#1 1968 set
#2 2002 Circulation Strike set
#1 2006 Circulation Strike set

probably others but I am too lazy to look.

Mistercoinman

I owned three top 5 sets at one time or another.

3 Clad Roosevelt Dimes
4 Silver Roosevelt Dimes
1 Capped Bust Dimes with varieties, Only person to 100% complete the capped bust set so far. Many other collectors who never registered there coins could possibly beat my set.

General Manager Commercial Flooring Company

illini420

I used to have a #1 set, my 1909 Mint Set... but some guy named Eliasberg just registered his set which took over the #1 spot

I'm an estate planning attorney.

I guess it's cool to see where Eliasberg ranks vs. the current sets, but several of the coins in the Elisaberg registry set weren't even owned by him. Instead PCGS entered in assumed grades for several coins and of course they were just about all top pop coins. sort of hard to compete with coins someone could have bought instead of coins they really had.

bosox

#2 in Victorian cents of Canada
#1 in Newfoundland cents

working civil engineer plus retired military.

dpoole

#1 3CN Proofs
#1 Washington MS '32-'64

Psychologist

Labelman87

Currently:

#5 Barber Quarters (regular series)
#4 Classic Head $5 Gold (#3 on NGC board)

I am a manufacturer by profession.

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