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With all the hubub about the 1804$....I got to thinking about Eliasberg..
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Was reading the article about the 1804 and Eliasberg owning one of them at some point and then chased a rabbit down a hole to an article about Eliasberg and his complete set. The article mentioned that some numismatists didn't consider his set fully complete due to the lack of a large number of varieties. Got me to thinking......
Do you think it would ever be possible to have an example of every coin made to include every variety ever found?
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No. Infinitely more competition nowadays for the rarities.
Collecting every variety would be nearly impossible, with some of them being 1/1s, and the person who owns it would never sell. I consider Eliasberg a complete collection personally, the only angle you would have on not calling it complete is that the proofs were interchanged with the business strike examples, unlike the D.L. Hansen Collection, which has significantly more coins than Eliasberg but is missing a few significant examples. Such as the 1822 $5 as well as the 1870-S $3, which Eliasberg owned both of.
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There isn't even a definitive list of all varieties ever. Major varieties and minor varieties? Based on whose research and opinion? It's a fool's errand.
I think that by type is the only reasonable option to even consider (for what in and of itself is a very ambitious and unreasonable goal).
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A decent idea but no, I dont see it either for alot of the above reasons
His accomplishment is hard enough to compete against at any level. I don’t think it would be possible to add varieties to a complete set.
Off main topic... but...
This sure would have been a great exhibit to view :
You’d need the one and only legal 1933 Farouk $20. So that coin alone would stop everyone … except maybe the owner of the one and only legal 1933 Farouk $20.
I fnd it interesting and surprising that the 1804 dollar was advertised as merely "the Stickney silver dollar" with no reference to the coin's date. I doubt that a lot of the public would know what that meant.
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He sure did have the stuff !
Pittman had coins that Eliasberg didn't.
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So what? Nearly everyone has had coins that Eliasberg didn’t. 😉
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It most certainly was! Spent the summer visiting the Philadelphia mint...........Practically lived there. LOL
@thebeav . Great picture. I'm just about speechless, Can't even imagine what all is in that picture. James
I did see that exhibit at the Philadelphia Mint in 1976. Great exhibit, still remember several of the coins.
As far as a complete variety set of every variety, I don't think that is possible even if you limit the set to just Lincoln cent varieties. For example, there are over 100 repunched mintmarks of some dates.
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Lol. US gold coins that weren't represented in the Eliasberg collection.
Please also troll anyone who says Eliasberg had a "complete set of US coins" since he didn't have all the US coins or there.
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Eliasberg collecting journey was easy. He bought the Clapp collection en bloc.
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