Pondering Seated Quarters --- whats your next series?
Dave99B
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Hi all -
I'm generally a series collector who tries to put together a full set of dates/mintmarks, in a very specific grade range. I love well matched complete sets. I spend most of time in Barber quarters and halves, in VF. I also dabble in mint state Mercury dimes a bit.
A series I'm interested in now is Seated Quarters, in low grades, maybe PCGS VG. I love nice, dirty, original, well-worn pieces. I love the history behind these quarters. I’ve been pondering this set for several years. It's a pretty big commitment, and I'm always careful before jumping in, as I know it can be an expensive/time consuming endeavor. Seated material is not cheap, and finding nice material is tough.
Just wondering ... is there a series that you have been looking at, pondering whether to jump it?
If so, what is it?
Dave
I'm generally a series collector who tries to put together a full set of dates/mintmarks, in a very specific grade range. I love well matched complete sets. I spend most of time in Barber quarters and halves, in VF. I also dabble in mint state Mercury dimes a bit.
A series I'm interested in now is Seated Quarters, in low grades, maybe PCGS VG. I love nice, dirty, original, well-worn pieces. I love the history behind these quarters. I’ve been pondering this set for several years. It's a pretty big commitment, and I'm always careful before jumping in, as I know it can be an expensive/time consuming endeavor. Seated material is not cheap, and finding nice material is tough.
Just wondering ... is there a series that you have been looking at, pondering whether to jump it?
If so, what is it?
Dave
Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
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I'm generally a series collector who tries to put together a full set of dates/mintmarks, in a very specific grade range. I love well matched complete sets. I spend most of time in Barber quarters and halves, in VF. I also dabble in mint state Mercury dimes a bit.
A series I'm interested in now is Seated Quarters, in low grades, maybe PCGS VG. I love nice, dirty, original, well-worn pieces. I love the history behind these quarters. I’ve been pondering this set for several years. It's a pretty big commitment, and I'm always careful before jumping in, as I know it can be an expensive/time consuming endeavor. Seated material is not cheap, and finding nice material is tough.
A seated quarter set would be interesting. Finding dirty and problem free key dates might be quite a challenge. A couple years ago I had a perfect G06 1842-0 sd. I don't ever recall running across many key dates in this in perfect G-VG. It's not like you can lose your shirt on such a set. Only the rare cc's will set you back. Finding the coins will be the tough part. Most got plucked out of circulation long before the G-VG grade...or...were melted. Still, I wonder how many people would appreciate such a set considering most "serious" circ sets seem to be in the F-AU range. Early bust coins in perfect G-VG wouldn't be easy either.
I have already collected most US series (but not gold coins) including half-cents, two cents pieces, 3 cent pieces, twenty cent pieces, etc. The only thing left for me is Bust dollars and even very worn bust dollars are quite expensive.I am still avidly collecting early bust coinage but these are few and hard to come by in the condition that I want.
Bob
It can be tough to find nice original pieces, and it seems that all of the interesting dates get snapped up by dealers the day before any show opens to the public, so it's a set that has to be collected very gradually, and the 1873-CC No Arrows may well be impossible in non-details VG.
The specialist Seated dealers are a real pleasure to work with!
Pondering Shield Nickel varieties or 3c nickels.
Shield Nickels will be fun. You will NEVER finish it because there's just so dang many but there are a lot of cool ones so you can pick out the ones you like the best. I've always had fun with them. I am almost done with my shield nickel date set. Might try to complete a proof set(minis the '67) or go towards 3CN.