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What was the coin that completed your set?

TLeverageTLeverage Posts: 259 ✭✭✭
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What was the coin that finally let you complete the set that you spent years working on, whether it be a condition rarity, a scarce variety, or something else entirely?

I'm afraid that I don't have a piece of my own that meets these criteria, but let's see the reward of the patient collectors on the Boards!

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  • aclocoacloco Posts: 952 ✭✭✭

    3 Legger and 13 S type 2 - purchased days apart and arrived the same day.

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  • ARCOARCO Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1895-S Barber Half in VF35, perfectly toned. BIN off of Ebay that was priced fairly. An Ebay relic that no longer exists.

  • AstroJoeAstroJoe Posts: 309 ✭✭✭

    1916 Standing Liberty quarter.

    Joe

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  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    09 SVDB

    "May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

    "A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1Mike1 said:
    09 SVDB

    That was also the last coin I needed to complete my "boyhood" collection to Lincoln Cents. It took a long time. I started during Christmas week 1959 and finished in the spring of 1982. Needless to say other coins had a higher priority.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 9, 2018 4:14AM

    For the Barber quarter set: naturally the '01 S.

    Then again, still upgrading

    For all others? Still upgrading

    Frank

    BHNC #203

  • SimpleCollectorSimpleCollector Posts: 536 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1885cc Morgan in vf

  • AzurescensAzurescens Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Christ on a cross it took me decades to find the right 1946-S Roosie in 66+. My set is nowhere near complete but it felt really good to finally find one.

    I know there's thousands and blah blah but I have really high standards and am super picky on dimes for a variety of reasons. Biggest being how can a coin catch a 65 or better when IGWT is so flattened it's partly illegible? Smh.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It was a long time ago.... (have not done sets in many years) But I think it was my 1893CC....I think that was either 1999 or 2000.... Cheers, RickO

  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 9, 2018 9:34AM

    Delete stupid post. Ill conceived. Inappropriate. Unloved.

  • DDRDDR Posts: 1,631 ✭✭✭✭✭

    When I put together my VF set of Buffalos, the last coin I purchased was the 1928-D.
    When I put together the same set in AU, the last coin was the 1925-D.

    David
    Complete Set of Chopmarked Trade Dollars
    Carson City Silver Dollars Complete 1870-1893http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase.aspx?sc=2722"
  • RegulatedRegulated Posts: 2,994 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 9, 2018 10:10AM

    A choice AU small planchet Pine Tree Shilling that completed my Pine Tree denomination set - technically, I see it as a filler.

    https://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/colonial-coins/pre-1776-states-coinage-1652-1774/pine-tree-silver-basic-set-1667-1682/alltimeset/159802


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  • No HeadlightsNo Headlights Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

    AU 1893-O half. Tough to find a coin with a decent strike

  • CCGGGCCGGG Posts: 1,267 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 9, 2018 11:30AM

    Still looking for it :) Need a nice problem free 93s Morgan in 45 to 53 PCGS/CAC to replace my 20. Then I'll be done (or at least happy with the set)

  • TLeverageTLeverage Posts: 259 ✭✭✭

    @topstuf said:
    Delete stupid post. Ill conceived. Inappropriate. Unloved.

    I can't tell if you're joking or not. I'm sure many collectors consider their collection as a virtually unending quest, but plenty of people have completed previous attempts at whole sets to their own satisfaction, at least to the point where they consider selling and starting on something else. This thread is about those coins that they found most difficult to acquire, or that they were the most patient to obtain.

  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well...this one completed my set in 58 after I finally got it upgraded from a 55

    Then I upgraded it with this 58+

    Thirty somin to go...Please let me know if any of you guys see or have any 58+ Barbers forsale!

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

    @TLeverage said:

    @topstuf said:
    Delete stupid post. Ill conceived. Inappropriate. Unloved.

    I can't tell if you're joking or not. I'm sure many collectors consider their collection as a virtually unending quest, but plenty of people have completed previous attempts at whole sets to their own satisfaction, at least to the point where they consider selling and starting on something else. This thread is about those coins that they found most difficult to acquire, or that they were the most patient to obtain.

    Everything that catches my eye is in my "set."

    And they all seem difficult to acquire.

    Unless I relax my standards. >:)

  • JBNJBN Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The blast white 1937 proof half dollar described in another thread completes my WLH proofs. Over nine years from acquiring the first one to the final acquisition of the 1937 last month.

  • Mission16Mission16 Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭

    1863 Indian cent.

  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,337 ✭✭✭✭✭

    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The 1919 DDO PCGS45 completed my Mercury Dime Complete Variety Set! :)B)

  • privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,652 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1921 D liberty walking half.

    Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc

  • TwobitcollectorTwobitcollector Posts: 3,954 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A Hawaiian commem, PCGS MS-62, 1st Gen holder for my classic commem set all in 1st Gen PCGS holders.

    Cheers

    Bob

  • txgolfer56txgolfer56 Posts: 1 ✭

    Actually 2 coins bought at the same show. 1915 LWC AU58 and 1922 no D Strong Reverse VF35.

  • sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I know what it WILL be just not sure when I'll get it.

    It'll be a Seated Dollar w/ motto to finally finish my 7070.

    My plan is to get the last needed coin at the first large show I've ever attended. ANA Philly.

    "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

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The last coin I needed to find to complete a set of Classic Head Quarter Eagles was the 1838-P. There are other coins in the set which have a far bigger reputation, but that one gave me more trouble than I ever thought it would. I searched for about a year.

    One of the things that drove me a little crazy was the Heritage want list system. You can post your want list on their site, and they will notify you whenever a piece shows up in an auction or in their inventory. The trouble is the site recognizes the date but not the mint mark. I got many notices for the 1838-C, which is a famous key coin, but not for the 1838-P.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
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  • blitzdudeblitzdude Posts: 6,612 ✭✭✭✭✭

    2018 ASE....until next years 2019 is released. lol

    The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
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  • AzurescensAzurescens Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @AllCoinsRule said:
    I started my gem BU set of 1965-1998 mint state coins in 2002. Quickly only pcgs ms66 and better was good enough (and now a days pretty much only ms67 and better is good enough). Just this last year I filled in the last hole with this spectacular 78-d Ike.


    That's one beautiful Ike!

  • CascadeChrisCascadeChris Posts: 2,529 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sets? Meh.. Takes the fun out of numismatics ;)

    The more you VAM..
  • BIGAL2749BIGAL2749 Posts: 742 ✭✭✭✭

    1800 H10 in Au-58 for my pre 1840 type set.

    Only missing coins are two gold $2 1/2, 1796 and 1808 which I decided not to collect when I started the set.

    I was more interested in collecting all four varieties of the 1796 and 1797 halves. Still have one more to get.

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

    This...took a long time and a lot of eating peanut butter sandwiches for lunch :smile:

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  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The next one.

    Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1

  • BillyKingsleyBillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭

    The only set I've ever completed is the state quarters. I count the territories as part of the series, and I didn't get the last one I needed... Puerto Rico D...until 2014.

    Billy Kingsley ANA R-3146356 Cardboard History // Numismatic History
  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,893 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This one completed my IHC's PCGS set.
    Lance.


    Coin Photography Services / Everyman Registry set / BHNC #213
  • oldabeintxoldabeintx Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Each time I "complete" a set I later expand the set definition or begin upgrading. It's a sickness.

  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    LOL! My Barber half's started with me finishing a PCGS F12 set! You see what it did to me!
    https://pcgs.com/SetRegistry/barbernut/othersets/34348

    @oldabeintx said:
    Each time I "complete" a set I later expand the set definition or begin upgrading. It's a sickness.

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