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My latest completion: 1795 mint set

brianc1959brianc1959 Posts: 350 ✭✭✭✭✭

https://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/u-s-coins/mint-sets/1795-mint-set/album/164047

This is another mint set I've been able to complete while working on a type set. This one is small enough and reasonable enough to make it a reality for me. No gold, however. All of the 1795 gold issues are real "beasts", especially the $5 large eagle reverse. I doubt I'll ever be able to acquire such a coin.

Next up: 1835 mint set.

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  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,729 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice job. Those are some great examples. Congratulations!

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

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  • StoogeStooge Posts: 4,673 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What an amazing accomplishment, and the grades are notthing to sneeze at either. Great looking set. Thanks for sharing.


    Later, Paul.
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice job!
    You doing birth year sets? ;)

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  • AotearoaAotearoa Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Awesome. Sweet coins!

    Smitten with DBLCs.

  • morgandollar1878morgandollar1878 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice set, congrats.

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  • oilers99oilers99 Posts: 226 ✭✭✭

    Great year set - thanks for sharing.

  • brianc1959brianc1959 Posts: 350 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bochiman said:
    Nice job!
    You doing birth year sets? ;)

    I'm feeling pretty old these days, but not that old!

  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is really nice.
    Congrats

    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice, coingrats!

  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gawrsh!
    That's cool. :o

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Impressive..........congrats on a fine accomplishment :smile:

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow... very nice indeed.... Great coins.... Congratulations on a notable achievement. Cheers, RickO

  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 13,109 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I thought "Mint Sets" were supposed to be "Mint" :D

    JK, great set, thanks for sharing!

  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 13,109 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • carabonnaircarabonnair Posts: 1,445 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice set! I especially like your 1795 half dollar - nice grade Overton 125. The half cent appears to be struck over a Talbot, Allum & Lee cent, so 7 coins for the price of 6. [See reverse between AMERICA and rim]

  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What fun! That's wonderful. Congratulations!

  • chumleychumley Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭

    congrats on what must have been a very difficult project

  • sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,044 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats. Nice work.

    "If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"

    My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress

  • jtlee321jtlee321 Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Absolutely amazing!! Very inspiring. Congratulations on a great accomplishment. Gives me something to work towards some day. :)

  • brianc1959brianc1959 Posts: 350 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Connecticoin said:
    I thought "Mint Sets" were supposed to be "Mint" :D

    JK, great set, thanks for sharing!

    I actually agree, but PCGS calls year sets "mint sets" without implying mint state. I wish I had a mint state version!

  • sellitstoresellitstore Posts: 3,053 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice set but try to find one in original packaging with the mailing envelope.

    You will be looking forever. ;)

    Collector and dealer in obsolete currency. Always buying all obsolete bank notes and scrip.
  • brianc1959brianc1959 Posts: 350 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @carabonnair said:
    Nice set! I especially like your 1795 half dollar - nice grade Overton 125. The half cent appears to be struck over a Talbot, Allum & Lee cent, so 7 coins for the price of 6. [See reverse between AMERICA and rim]

    Thanks - the half dollar was a real stretch for me a few years ago when I bought it, but I really liked the way it looked. AFAIK you're correct about the half cent. Maybe these should be called numismatic palimpsests?

  • divecchiadivecchia Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats on the completion of this set.

    All the pieces look really nice. :+1::+1:

    Donato

    Hobbyist & Collector (not an investor).
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,783 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is a very nice set. I completed a 1795 set with the gold some years ago. I displayed it at the Winter FUN show before I had the 1795 Draped Bust Dollar. I put a 1796 in there instead to illustrate the type. The Judges took off some point for that. :| Oh well.

    The 1793 and 1796 sets get more accolades because the 1793 was the first and the 1796 is only year in which it is possible to get all 10 denominations dated in the same year that were authorized by the Coinage Act of 1792.

    I noted that you have the 1795 Dollar with the Bust that is off-center. I have looked for one of those off and on, but have never found the “right” one.

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  • ECHOESECHOES Posts: 2,974 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice :#

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  • brianc1959brianc1959 Posts: 350 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @sellitstore said:
    Very nice set but try to find one in original packaging with the mailing envelope.

    You will be looking forever. ;)

    If such a set were ever issued it would no doubt come with the gold coins, and therefore would have to come with a time machine as well - since the 1795 $5 large eagle wasn't made until ~1797!

  • USMarine6USMarine6 Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Numismaticly speaking that pretty friggin Kool.

  • brianc1959brianc1959 Posts: 350 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BillJones said:
    That is a very nice set. I completed a 1795 set with the gold some years ago. I displayed it at the Winter FUN show before I had the 1795 Draped Bust Dollar. I put a 1796 in there instead to illustrate the type. The Judges took off some point for that. :| Oh well.

    The 1793 and 1796 sets get more accolades because the 1793 was the first and the 1796 is only year in which it is possible to get all 10 denominations dated in the same year that were authorized by the Coinage Act of 1792.

    I noted that you have the 1795 Dollar with the Bust that is off-center. I have looked for one of those off and on, but have never found the “right” one.

    Thanks for your comments. A 1795 set with gold is a truly awe-inspring thing. The non-gold coins would be mere afterthoughts in such a set! I watched helplessly as a 1795 $5 large eagle crossed the block at the recent Stack's auction, but there is no way I can bid for coins like that right now. I'd love to go after a 1796 set, but to realistically do it I'd need to quadruple the size of my business. I will need to complete a 1793 set as part of my larger type set, but it will take time.

    I got my 1795 off-center dollar at the recent Heritage Long Beach auction after seeing it in-hand in the viewing room. Certainly not anywhere near the finest example, but it has plenty of eye appeal for me.

  • halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭

    SWEET ! ! !

    Need the following OBW rolls to complete my 46-64 Roosevelt roll set:
    1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
    Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,617 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A very nice set, full of history.
    Congratulations

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  • thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Beautiful coins !
    Thanks for including me in your give-away !

  • CurrinCurrin Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice love it. Hope you can add the gold coins

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  • msch1manmsch1man Posts: 809 ✭✭✭✭

    Awesome set...unlike most sets, I think I actually like the reverse page the best (something about those scrawny eagles that's just cool).

  • rln_14rln_14 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭✭

    very nice and very old coins. congrats on completing the set thanks rln

  • BIGAL2749BIGAL2749 Posts: 742 ✭✭✭✭

    Very nice set with appealing looking coins

    When one hears of a mint set it's not the year 1795 that comes to mind.

  • brianc1959brianc1959 Posts: 350 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @msch1man said:
    Awesome set...unlike most sets, I think I actually like the reverse page the best (something about those scrawny eagles that's just cool).

    I like the scrawny eagles, too. Its interesting to compare the differences between the reverse on the Draped Bust vs Flowing Hair dollars.

  • RampageRampage Posts: 9,512 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very beautiful set. Congratulations on the accomplishment!

  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    nice matched set

    Frank

    BHNC #203

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very impressive.

  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,294 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice set! Now you can expand it to a complete 1795 die marriage set. :)

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