Has Anyone Ever Viewed A Specific Date Slabbed In Every Grade?

InternetJunky · December 28, 2009 2:15PM

Lets just say grades 1-67 (Since any coin that can make MS70 must be modern - and if found in the low low grades must have been helped through the process).

I'm sure someone has done every grade for a specific series, but has anyone ever viewed/heard of this being done for a specific date & type? Example: 1940 Lincoln slabbed 1-67

I guess if there was a year that meant a lot to someone it would be a fun thing to do (similar to those who put together early proof sets buying the coins individually for a particular year in the same grades) - and also quite a challenge depending on what date/type the coin is.

jonathanb · December 28, 2009 2:33PM

The general term is a "grading set". Here's an old thread with some discussion

speety · December 28, 2009 2:34PM

I think i've seen 1921 peace dollars in every grade from poor-1 to MS-67. I KNOW i've seen them through MS-66 at least, i think there was an MS-67 in the group.

StubbyMcNumbthumbs · December 28, 2009 2:46PM

By every grade, do you mean, say P-01 through ms-67 would equal ??? how many coins? I don't know exactly which grades are covered, meaning top tier TPGs don't grade every increment, do they?

So, not to hijack the thread, but how specific do the grades get? (eg. is there an AU-57?)

Theoretically, you would have 67 coins, but in reality, how many would it be?

That would be a neat set to try and complete - Pick a coin and specific year and get all grades FOR THAT COIN/YEAR.

illini420 · December 28, 2009 2:51PM

I have just about every grade through MS64RD of 1908-S Indian Cents. Link to my set is in my signature line. Of the existing coins in PCGS slabs I'm just missing some of the oddball grades like MS60RB, MS61BN and MS61RB. It was a fun set to put together and a bit more challenging than I thought it would have been.

To be able to reasonably do a grading set of one specific date/mintmark it needs to be a key date or a semi key date, otherwise you just will not be able to find many certified examples in the lower grades as the coins generally just aren't worth slabbing in low grades if they aren't keys.

InternetJunky · December 28, 2009 2:56PM

Ah yes grading set, I knew there was a term I just couldn't spit it out.

illini420 your right on the money of what I was talking about. Very nice 1908-S set you have there too!

greghansen · December 28, 2009 5:13PM

There are several Morgan collectors who have put together complete grading sets, Usually it is done with an interesting date or variety. I know forum member DennisH has a semi-key date 1895-S grading set of Morgans but I don't know how high his grades go...maybe he will find this link and tell us. Ash Harrison has a complete grading set of the 1888-O Hotlips Morgan through the low Mint State grades. I myself am slowly working on an 1885-CC grading set which I find very challenging since the coin is hardly ever found in circulated grades, while unc. coins are readily available in all grades.

Edited to add: I posted before looking at the earlier thread referenced by Jonathanb. I see DennisH 1895-S grading set is complete through all the circulated grades, but doesn't include the MS coins. Still a very impressive accomplishment for a key date coin.

DennisH · December 29, 2009 2:12AM

My 1895-S set goes from Poor-01 to AU58. Thanks to Heritage auctions I've seen every Mint State grade from 60 to 67 in person. The 67DMPL was remarkable!

MrHalfDime · December 29, 2009 3:31AM

Perhaps not at all what you are looking for, but reading your OP made me recall seeing a fascinating die state study of 1855 "Knob on Ear" Large Cents assembled by the late Jules Reiver many years ago. While the grade of the coin was not his overriding concern, and all of the coins were raw, he had assembled as many as sixty (60) different examples of this variety, with an 'internal cud', or crumbling, on Miss Liberty's ear. His die state examples ran the gamut, from an early die state with no crumbling, to extremely late die states, with a huge mound, or cone, on Miss Liberty's ear. He arranged them in a line, in order of emission, from the early die states on the left through the vary late die states on the right. As he viewed them with great pride, he stated "Boy, you could never stack them, could you?". It would have been interesting to preserve them, but they were dispersed, along with his entire collection, in 2005.

Greeniejr · December 29, 2009 3:54AM

As someone said, there was a collection of 1921 Peace Dollars in P-01 with every recognized grade up through MS67 in PCGS, NGC and either ANACS or ICG holders on display at the ANA show in Milwaukee.

tahoe98 · December 29, 2009 4:22AM

....i started one set once of morgans but got caught up and caved. i sold the lower graded common dates for melt!

illini420 · December 29, 2009 4:38AM

<< <i>Ah yes grading set, I knew there was a term I just couldn't spit it out.

illini420 your right on the money of what I was talking about. Very nice 1908-S set you have there too! >>

Thanks!

Also, I saw that 1888-O Hotlips Morgan grading set on display at one of the Long Beach shows and that partially motivated me to complete the grading set of the 1908-S cents. I already had maybe five of them in different grades at the time, but I thought that Morgan set was cool and would be an ok (but not perfect) way to learn to grade the series as I could study each coin in hand any time I desired.

astrorat · December 29, 2009 5:13AM

I've been working on a date and mintmark grading set of twenty-cent pieces through AU-58 (as MS pieces are not that much of an interest to me). Of course, that is excluding the 76-CC!

I just need to find some original, problem-free, low-grade 75-P and 76-P pieces.

Lane

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