Birth Year set

habaraca

Has anyone ever started or is anyone working on a WORLD wide Birthyear set?
Not just coins from the US, but all counties around the world.......

That could be a project, since some of the countries that were around in your birthyear
will not be around now..

habaraca

nothing at all???

DorkGirl

Way too big a project for me.

lordmarcovan

Yes, I know of a few folks doing that, and I think it's the way to go if one is going to do a birthyear set.

ricko

That is one monstrous task...but a fun project....Cheers, RickO

coinsarefun

That would be an extremely daunting task.

Max2

No, I don't collect ancient coins!

Bubblehead

<< <i>No, I don't collect ancient coins! >>

Dolan

Fascinating idea!

MsMorrisine

That's right up my alley.

I'd probably die before finishing it.

IrishMikey

I actually started a birth year set with coins from the entire world. My original idea was to
get just one coin from every country. I still have the beginnings of the set, but I think I was
no more than 5% complete when I changed interests. I really liked the coins from Africa
that I bought -- many of those countries have changed names since the year I was born.

sbeverly

I've started it about 5 years ago and have about 24 coins from the US and around the world.

I have an ebay alert for my birth years and the last year or so the same coins come up.

HoledandCreative

I have been working on different birthyear sets for many years now. Harry X., not sure of spelling of his last name, B. was called Mr. 1873. It wasn't his birthyear but, numismatically speaking, most agree it was a helluva year to collect. That is what gave me the idea about 50 years ago. It is a challenge. All "sides".

DeliaBug

I am actually doing this. The way I approached it was that any country that had an official mint or proof set listed in KM, I went after. Depending on your year, there was a lot of shenanigans going on in the world coin arena being dumped on U. S. collectors. There are many unofficial sets. And so far I have 44 out of 101 sets. Many of the missing sets are out of my reach now due to the price of gold. For my year, the gold proof set from Albania is $8400 spot price. Uganda is $11,200! Eeesh.

joeykoins

Wow! what a goal. Imagine being born in 1936,the proof set is well over $7000. Expensive goal,good luck. and that's just one set,shhhhsh! That would be a beautiful goal in the end,if you can fulfill? -joey