Which sets can be completed in 24 hours?

mercurydimeguy

I thought about this question last night, in context of which coins are truly scarce, whixh coins are readily available, and which coins are expensive for one reason or another but also readily available (like 1955 DDO for example).

Then I thought, "I wonder if I could build a compete set of something from eBay alone in 24 hours?"

So what are your thoughts? Which sets do you think one can complete in 24 hours.?

WingedLiberty1957

Sacagawea Proof Dollars. Only 18 coins. 2000 to 2017. Cheap. I think that's probably doable.

roadrunner

If the objective doesn't matter on the coin's condition, then just about any 20th century set short of "picky" varieties could be completed in 24 hrs. The 1933 $10 Indian and $20 Saint could be stoppers. Same for 1927-d saint or 1913 Lib nickel. Sets like Walkers, Mercs, SLQ's, Barbers, etc. could all be done quickly in typical circ/lower mint state grades. In grades of MS 65-68 you might run into some walls. If you required a grade of P-01 or even FR-02, you might not be able to do it either.

Heading back to the 19th century would be a lot harder. For 90-95% of listed PCGS REG sets, you could probably do them in 24 hrs depending on grade. You could do a seated quarter set in 24 hrs if you didn't have to include an 1873-cc NA. If you required all seated quarters to be UNC.....you couldn't do it. A business strike seated half dollar set you could probably do in 24 hrs....those CC mint coins tend to be available enough...and you'd have to exclude the 1853-0 NA as well.

ColonelJessup

1816 year set.

jwitten

$2 1/2 Indians would be pretty easy. A lot of times you can find a completed set for sale at the same time.

MrEureka

What sets under 100K in value could not, in the desired grades, be completed in a year?

TurboSnail

Complete set of silver eagle (80+ coins). including 1995w, 08 reverse of 07 and 2009 dc proof.
$50k-$70k if all slabs with 70's. lol

ColonelJessup

@MrEureka said:
What sets under 100K in value could not, in the desired grades, be completed in a year?

1917 proof set.

However, I completed my entire set of year sets of US coins from dates in the Fibonacci series in less time that you might think.

oih82w8

Anthony Dollars should be fairly easy and readily available.

TurboSnail

@oih82w8 said:
Anthony Dollars should be fairly easy and readily available.

That's not building when most are being sold as completed set.~ Op asked for a little challenge.

oih82w8

@TurboSnail said:

@oih82w8 said:
Anthony Dollars should be fairly easy and readily available.

That's not building when most are being sold as completed set.~ Op asked for a little challenge.

Put the varieties in it then.

Just about any modern coin could be purchased as a "set".

Peace_dollar88

Peace Dollars -Proofs

LindeDad

Most are going to have a date or two just not listed withen your one day limit.

UnclePennyBags

Franklin half set should be fairly easy in circulated condition..... I'm not accounting for ebay since shipping would take longer than 24 hours... I imagine an Ike dollar set would also be very doable just buying mint and proof sets (varieties might be a little more difficult)

rhedden

I suspect that many coin sets could be completed in one day, including some that may surprise you. However, completing certain 18th-19th century sets in this fashion would require a complete lack of regard for whether the coins are graded properly or priced fairly. I suspect that a person who purchased a set of any Bust, Seated, or Barber coinage in 24 hours would only receive a few "choice" coins, and he/she would overpay by a large margin for the rest, which would mostly have poor to average eye appeal.

coinhack

You could do a complete set of Morgan and Peace dollars. If you weren't particular about what you put into it.

I like the big old cartwheels a lot and spent 15 years putting together sets that I liked.

ChrisH821

There is so much selection on the 'bay it would be easier to list the series that can't be completed in one sitting.

CommemKing

Early commemorative half dollars.

TommyType

@UnclePennyBags said:
Franklin half set should be fairly easy in circulated condition..... I'm not accounting for ebay since shipping would take longer than 24 hours... I imagine an Ike dollar set would also be very doable just buying mint and proof sets (varieties might be a little more difficult)

Could walk into my local B&M, and walk out with a full "BU" Franklin set....Dansco album included! What a deal!!

(I really need to go and sell them my set....)

Justacommeman

You could do a lot of sets very poorly in 24 hours

mark

cladking

@oih82w8 said:

Just about any modern coin could be purchased as a "set".

Not really.

Try buying any clad set as a complete collection. It will have so many dogs in it, it just might bark. The '82 and '83 issues will only be AU.

Indeed, try building a nice XF/ AU set of clad quarters. I wager you couldn't do it in ten years unless you wore your collection. The only easy coins in the set are the '82 and '83.

roadrunner

@MrEureka said:
What sets under 100K in value could not, in the desired grades, be completed in a year?

How about a set of Barber dimes including the 1894-s? There are at least a pair of very low grade (AG-Good) specimens out there that might not cost over say $99K. The rest of the set could be done for under $1K. Really comes down to the availability and price of those low grade pieces.

http://www.coinweek.com/expert-columns/greg-reynolds-classic-rarities/condition-ranking-of-1894-s-dimes-with-recent-histories/

RogerB

Gold Stellas....Easy to do, there are so many of the little buggers around.

JeffersonFrog

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ricko

The easy way is to buy the set complete... ... I realize you did not intend that to be the plan.... If you attended a large show such as FUN or Baltimore, you could likely do some of the short sets in a day...much would depend on the quality you would seek.... Cheers, RickO

TwoSides2aCoin

Susan B Anthony with proofs or the commemorative Lincoln Cents of 2009. Maybe the Westward Journey nickel series. This thread reminds me of why dealers drink.

KellenCoin

Mintmark set of steel cents.

TwoSides2aCoin

@Justacommeman said:
You could do a lot of sets very poorly in 24 hours

mark

The older I get the better your responses seem to get.

OnWithTheHunt

Silver proof Roosies, 1950-64.

BAJJERFAN

I expect that at any large show that one could assemble 10 sets of Morgans without too much trouble.

BAJJERFAN

Who could assemble the best set of Morgans at a show for the least amount of money?

kiyote

A Complete set of modern commemoratives from half dollars to gold, BU and proof. Your finger would be exhausted by the time we were done.

mercurydimeguy

@BAJJERFAN said:
Who could assemble the best set of Morgans at a show for the least amount of money?

This could almost be a gameshow for coin collectors, like the flea market flip show...you are given $XXX amount of money, and you need to assemble a set of YYY in ZZZ amount of time

Davideo

It depends on the conditions of the 24 hour period. Are you at a major show? Are you in New York City? Or Barrow, Alaska?

BAJJERFAN

@mercurydimeguy said:

@BAJJERFAN said:
Who could assemble the best set of Morgans at a show for the least amount of money?

This could almost be a gameshow for coin collectors, like the flea market flip show...you are given $XXX amount of money, and you need to assemble a set of YYY in ZZZ amount of time

I was thinking along the lines of who has a great eye and isn't afraid to haggle for a bit.

coinkat

Edward VII Crown

mercurydimeguy

@Davideo how about in Fiji and you can only use your computer...so only using the internet, what are your thoughts? Do parameters change? PS. Go Wildcats

Also, this thread is really an interesting study on human (collector) behavior because it appears that a lot of material has the possibility of being assembled relatively quickly if we remove money (en economic reality that we all deal with) and quality (self-imposed) as barriers...

I got to thinking about this topic after reading "hyped up" coin descriptions on websites and auctions, that a good deal of "scarcity" comes from artificial barriers we impose...like filters. If we keep adding more filters, what gets through is more valuable because of the perceived scarcity the filters create. So the hyped up descriptions attempt to explain (helpful) or (more often) fabricate scarcity when in reality scarcity might not exist.

At the same time, it shines a light on real scarcity, pieces that you cannot freely obtain in 24 hours...are these perhaps the real gems of numismatics that we overlook because of self-imposed scarcity

No Headlights

I suspect at any major show you could assemble a set of Standing Liberty quarters.

Davideo

@mercurydimeguy said:
@Davideo how about in Fiji and you can only use your computer...so only using the internet, what are your thoughts? Do parameters change? PS. Go Wildcats

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At the same time, it shines a light on real scarcity, pieces that you cannot freely obtain in 24 hours...are these perhaps the real gems of numismatics that we overlook because of self-imposed scarcity

If I'm in Fuji I'm not worrying about buying coins! Though I'm assuming that you could get date and mintmark of every common denomination circulating coin since sometime in later half of the 1800's. If you put stipulations on grade or varieties then no. I do agree with your point about evaluating true scarcity.

OnlyGoldIsMoney

@jwitten said:
$2 1/2 Indians would be pretty easy. A lot of times you can find a completed set for sale at the same time.

Indeed. It was just take a few hours on ebay with one of my credit cards.

mt_msla

I know of a full Dansco Susie B. I could go buy right now if I wanted to pay what they are asking for it. Full set acquisition time ~= 10 minutes.

COCollector

Did someone already mention a set of Ike dollars?

Maybe do-able in an hour or two if you exclude varieties. And depending on the grades, maybe under $200.

BAJJERFAN

@OnlyGoldIsMoney said:

@jwitten said:
$2 1/2 Indians would be pretty easy. A lot of times you can find a completed set for sale at the same time.

Indeed. It was just take a few hours on ebay with one of my credit cards.

Better let your CC company know ahead of time lest they cut you off without warning.

Baley

Who needs the whole solar day?

One could easily put together a set of draped bust half dimes by Valentine marriage, in original surface pcgs F15, in an hour or so...

pocketpiececommems

You should be able to complete an MS graded 50 piece of classic commems in 24 hours but you could not complete a circulated set in 24 hrs.

TopographicOceans

Quite a few if you move at the pace of D. L. Hansen

mustangmanbob

Here is a 15 minute exercise, all off ebay except 2, Peace Dollars, MS64 PCGS.

There were no 1934-S MS64 PCGS that I could find on ebay, so I went elsewhere, and the 1935-S was overpriced.

Short version, full set, 12% below PCGS price guide.

Date Mintage Price Price Delta Delta %
1921 1,006,473 $647.00 $750.00 $103.00 14%
1922 51,737,000 $46.08 $60.00 $13.92 23%
1922-D 15,063,000 $125.00 $145.00 $20.00 14%
1922-S 17,475,000 $216.00 $225.00 $9.00 4%
1923 30,800,000 $47.59 $60.00 $12.41 21%
1923-D 6,811,000 $320.00 $375.00 $55.00 15%
1923-S 19,020,000 $302.00 $350.00 $48.00 14%
1924 11,811,000 $48.95 $60.00 $11.05 18%
1924-S 1,728,000 $925.00 $1,100.00 $175.00 16%
1925 10,198,000 $50.00 $60.00 $10.00 17%
1925-S 1,610,000 $635.00 $750.00 $115.00 15%
1926 1,939,000 $110.00 $125.00 $15.00 12%
1926-D 2,348,700 $425.00 $425.00 $0.00 0%
1926-S 6,980,000 $250.00 $275.00 $25.00 9%
1927 848,000 $480.00 $500.00 $20.00 4%
1927-D 1,268,900 $889.00 $1,050.00 $161.00 15%
1927-S 866,000 $1,030.00 $1,050.00 $20.00 2%
1928 360,649 $948.00 $1,000.00 $52.00 5%
1928-S 1,632,000 $899.00 $900.00 $1.00 0%
1934 954,057 $284.00 $350.00 $66.00 19%
1934-D 1,569,500 $460.00 $525.00 $65.00 12%
1934-S 1,011,000 $5,800.00 $6,850.00 $1,050.00 15%
1935 1,576,000 $240.00 $250.00 $10.00 4%
1935-S 1,964,000 $579.00 $575.00 -$4.00 -1%
Total $15,756.62 $17,810.00 $2,053.38 12%

keets

Jessup beat me to it, that one might take a minute.

jcping

@MrEureka said:
What sets under 100K in value could not, in the desired grades, be completed in a year?

Andy, putting 100K on the table, do you think you can buy 80% completion of calfracs period one octogonal dollar set in a year? 80% completion based on PCGS price guide is under $80K at this moment

REALGATOR

Flying Eagle Cents. Several 1856's to choose from. Watch your wallet, though...

MrEureka

@jcping said:

@MrEureka said:
What sets under 100K in value could not, in the desired grades, be completed in a year?

Andy, putting 100K on the table, do you think you can buy 80% completion of calfracs period one octogonal dollar set in a year? 80% completion based on PCGS price guide is under $80K at this moment

I don't know, but that sounds like a good challenge! Funny thing is that if I were to do it for myself, it would have to be raw. The one piece I have in my collection has a big cud, and a certain unnamed TPG insisted, even on review, that the coin was damaged. At that point, I promised myself that I would never do that set in slabs, just on general principle.