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How Many Complete Sets Do You Have?
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And you can define complete as having met the goal you set out to achive with your set(s).
I currently only have two complete sets, although I am working on several others. One set is of MS Franklins- see the link below for the details. The second set consists of the 1938-1942 (I and II) proof Jeffersons. My goal was to just define the set with these early issues. The set is all (PCGS) PR66, except the '39, which is PR67.
I currently only have two complete sets, although I am working on several others. One set is of MS Franklins- see the link below for the details. The second set consists of the 1938-1942 (I and II) proof Jeffersons. My goal was to just define the set with these early issues. The set is all (PCGS) PR66, except the '39, which is PR67.
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That being said, I am also trying to combine 5 types of Eagles for each year (BU, PCGS MS69/70, Proofs in mint box, PCGS PR69/70, and mint rolls). I have at least one of each type from 2003, so if I call that a 2003 "set" then I guess I have 1 set.
Pretty sad, but it makes me happy
Silver American Eagles ROCK
Tyler
Jefferson nickel business strikes.
SBA business strikes.
Ike business strikes.
Korean one chon.
Korean five chon.
Korean ten chon.
Several completed sets of pre-1945 short run Japanese coinage.
Japanese one sen (dragon pattern).
Manchoukuo 5 li
Manchoukuo one fen 1933-1938.
Mengchiang one chiao
For instance, I have completed my goal of proof sets from 1960-present (I have from 1957-present now) but I only have the silver sets for the 1999-2001 years...I don't think I will get the clad sets to be honest.
(actually, I say this is mine, but I am building these sets for my son to grow into...too expensive to go back years and years in the future, I predict, if he decides he wants to, so I am jumpstarting him with these).
I also have the MS SAEs from 86-03 in UNC (unslabbed, so I say UNC....they are in an intercept and dansco album pair....I have 2 sets...one for my son and 1 for me because I like them so much).
I have 1 1/3 sets of the 86-03 (excluding the 95W) proof SAEs as well.
I do have an album of Ikes (raw) that I hope are all MS63+ (I bought them for an OK price and figure I can learn and the cost won't be too much for me)
I have the sacagaweas as well. Proof and MS (outside of the proof sets...I have these in 2x2s)
I have also completed the silver mint state set of the Australian lunar series (99-04)...again, 2 sets so I can have one for myself.
So, the only "complete sets" i have are the ones that aren't completed yet as they are still being produced (unlike a series that has ended....buff nickels, IHC, etc).
I also do morgans but have only completed a year set (one from each year) due to cost (I am trying MS60 minimum with most MS63+, but I do know the keys will be low end for me due to cost). I am still buying/collecting them, but i want to make sure the remaining ones i get have the right look, are authentic and as original as possible, and are within my price range.
I want to get frankies (~MS64..not necessarily FBL right away) and possibly roosies (same). Anyone know best price/way to get the frankies?
So, to me, I have completed 7 sets (Proofs, MS SAE, Proof SAE, Australian Lunar Silver, Ikes, Sacagaweas, and a yearset of morgans), excluding dupes of the SAE/Lunar sets. I still have a lot more to go though to do more completions and get the coins that I just like to look at.
Wow! I have more than I thought!
Ron
PS....I have also completed (except for 2003-P coins) circulated sets in the whitman albums for the Jeffersons (not the george and Weesie type ) from 1962-present, roosies (1965-present) and lincolns (1959-present). I do want/need to upgrade a few in each of these. I also have about 10 more kennedys (circ/MS) that I need to complete them (unslabbed)
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
A set of ASE's from 1986 to 2003 AND
yer basic set of Morgans business strike sans the 95 proof.
unless you count an incomplete set as a set in work.
what?? I need another beer......
Also Manx coinage pre 1839.
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I have no clue where to go to next. I was thinking British Penny.
Working on PCGS PQ Morgans and high graded PCGS State Quarters.
It will be a long time before I complete another set. I am now working on a type set.
Commemorative $10 Business Strikes
I've also got a complete 21st Century Type Set .
That's all I've got complete, I think. Most of my sets will never be complete, I fear.
Where's the fun in actually finishing?
Japanese Occupied Inner Mongolia 5 chiao
Province of Canada 20 cents
Obscurum per obscurius
Sorry.... I don't know how to show a Link.
I hate it when you see my post before I can edit the spelling.
Always looking for nice type coins
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Hope it helps!
Working on a BU franklin set, but I can already see that I will end up with one set being lower grade BU, and another being Gem+ BU.
mmm....I do have all of the state quarters.... does that count?
You are doing well, subject 15837. You are a good person.
<< <i>mmm....I do have all of the state quarters.... does that count? >>
All the way through Hawaii ? Then no...
Bust Half & FSB Merc Collector
Jeffersons
Roosevelts
Peace $$
So I guess that makes four with five others 90% there.
Really nice frankie set you've got there!!!
16 coins with only 2,1,0 higher on the alltime pop charts.
Congrats........even Lucy would be a......little envious.
16 coins with only 2,1,0 higher on the alltime pop charts.
Congrats........even Lucy would be a......little envious!
Lightside,
Thanks for the compliment on my Franklin set. I initially completed the set in the mid '90s (MS64 and up). Since that time, I've been upgrading. Lucy was a big help in the upgrade process. Frank (Pug Dog icon) helped upgrade a couple dates as well, including the one that put the set in 65FBL or better.
Greg
- Really close to completing a nice American type set (Dansco 7070).
- Need only the '24S and '27D Peace Dollars to complete that set in AU and better.
- Assault on high-grade Morgans and Winged Liberty dimes and mid-grade Buffalos and Jeffies, has begun.
- And I confess to having started a "Hard Times" token collection.
But the work shall not be lost for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more elegant edition revised and corrected
by The Author.
(Ben's epitaph)
Now...with that having been said, I could probably build half a dozen 1909-2003 Lincoln sets minus the 09S VDB...and I could build a thousand or more Memorial date and mint sets (business strike), and I could probably muster a dozen proof cent sets from 1959 to date. But any one of those to me is a mere pittance of a "set"....just a brush over the top of what's lurking within.
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1. Basic Ike circulation strikes
2. Ike proofs
3. Sacagawea circulation strikes (Goodacre in original ICG slab -- I refuse to mess with this!)
4. Sacagawea proofs
5. Morgan mintmark types
6. Morgan early S mints
In-work PCGS registry sets:
1. Basic Morgan circulation strikes - 90%
2. Peace circulation strikes - 33%
3. Varieties Ike circulation strikes - 96%
4. SBA proofs - 33%
5. Morgan CCs - 77%
6. Silver American eagle circulation strikes - 53%
Complete raw sets:
1. Basic Morgan circulation strikes
2. Peace circulation strikes
3. Silver American eagle circulation strikes
Partial raw sets:
1. Liberty walking halves
2. Barber halves
3. Basic SBA circulation strikes
4. Silver American eagle proofs
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I like that one; it's on my list of sets I'd like to work on in AU58.
keets: What's a complete set??
al h.
I currently only have two complete sets, although I am working on several others. One set is of MS Franklins- see the link below for the details. The second set consists of the 1938-1942 (I and II) proof Jeffersons. My goal was to just define the set with these early issues. The set is all (PCGS) PR66, except the '39, which is PR67.
Modern Commem Proof $1
Modern Commem MS 50c
Modern Commem Proof 50c
SAE MS $1
SAE Proof $1
GAE MS $5
SBA Proof
IKE Silver Proof
Kennedy Silver Proof
State Quarter MS
State Quarter Proof
State Quarter Silver Proof
Ok......Help me, I'm a closet modern collector
Barber Halves, G- EF
Franklin Halves, MS (proofs are lacking only the 1950-52)
Walking Liberty Halves, 1916-47, VG-MS64
Ike Dollars, MS and Proof (no varieities, though)
Mercury Dimes (except prrofs) 1916-45 raw F-MS65 (my 16D is a ANACS photo-certificated with no grade requested, probably AG)
Washington Quarters 1932-64 Fine-MS65
U.S. Type, 1800-2000, copper, nickel, and silver, as defined by the holes in my Dansco/Littleton album, (I still need a few common gold types)
Thank goodness the subject of this thread was not "how many complete sets do you have which you will not try to upgrade". My answer to that might be my single dateless Walker, certified as MS-70 on its 2x2 by Silvertowne's Leon Hendrickson. Perhaps I have also completed a set of all coins certified as "commercial 63" in Accugrade photo-slabs which commemorate an event which took place within 3 blocks of my house. (Hint: I live 2 blocks north of the last standing building erected for the 1892-93 Chicago World's Fair/Columbian Expo).
Roosies complete
Jeffersons complete
20th century set complete
trying to finish my Washingtons, (5 remaining, the tough ones)
after that will work on lincolns, need most before 1930.
and begin a buffalo set
1. A modern US commemorative silver/clad proof set, dollars and half dollars.
2. A US gold type set - the traditional 12 piece plus a couple more I've added like the Classic $2.5 and $5. pieces as well as the various no motto ones and one modern proof. Total is 20 coins when they are all added in.
3. A complete 50 piece US classic commem type set in PCGS and NGC MS 64 through MS 68.
4. A SAE proof set.
i understood the question, i was just poking fun at myself for my ineptitude. i actually do have one complete set, raw MS Silver eagles in an Intercept Shield album. all my other sets are works that will be in progress for ahwile.
al h.
Keets, I have a lot of those too
edited to add: I trust you picked up the sarcasm in my first comment to you