Your 7070 Type Set Priorities And Strategies

I recently completed mine. I focused the most on the dime page. That page and the copper page were the hardest pages to find quality examples in my opinion. Seated quarters are also tough in slider grades. A lot of cleaned coins in slabs

Also, I made the mistake of wanting to do a circulated cameo set grades VF-XF. I bought an MS coin and it made the set look off. I wound up selling the lower grades and making my set AU-58-MS64.

Some people here have said it, but you should decide on the minimum grade you want your set to be as early as possible to avoid having to sell/upgrade. If your current financial situation only allows 1 MS coin a month, so be it. You'll be happier in 20 years with the highest grade set possible for yourself rather than being stuck with a lower grade set that was completed in a couple of months

I definitely agree with Steelers72 and kanga. No need to finish your set in a few months with damaged or low grade coins. Instead, buy one or two high-quality examples you can afford, say, every month or two. You'll be happier when you complete the set. Then you won't have to upgrade everything later on.

Steelers72, kanga, SilverDollar2017, Wizardnyc- Your avatars would fit nicely in a 7070!

I did my set as a sort of procession with earlier coins being lower grades with later dates being higher grades. So my early copper may go from G/VG to F/VF in middle years to AU/MS in modern coinage. I just didn't see buying lower grade modern coins just to match the rest of the set when you could get high grade examples for just a little more.

There's many ways to assemble this set to fit to a particular budget.

Just an after thought.

Not sure how you guys first became interested in this set or what motivated you to start one. I was just thinking back when it first hit me. For months I was looking at all the fantastic sets on this forum, never thinking or believing it was actually achievable from my standpoint.

Then it finally hit me. I actually had many of the coins I was looking at in all your sets (not the condition or quality of course). I had many of the coins scattered throughout my collection, in albums, loose random coins, coins I could break out of mint sets and slabs, etc..

No gold BTW.

So I went to work. Bought the 7070 album and started filling holes. Of course, the coin conditions were all over the map, which I wasn't happy about. I've been slowly buying the more difficult coins and upgrading when I can to this day.

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I guess I'm the oddball then. I choose to themake a set of my own design choosing (based on the generic 7070) but expanded to cover some examples not included, such as Colonials, Proof/MS issues of same year (that is a type, for an example). I went date wise , 18th-21st Century. My "budget" is disability income, so this bull of buying a slab or MS a month is ridiculous. That would mean I spend all of two to three months of set aside funds on one coin on high dollar. I'm 66 years old, have health issues, I may kick over any day. I'd like to have the personal satisfaction of a completed set to enjoy for myself a little bit. No one cares about Gramp's coins, just how much does it add up to. It will be interesting after I'm gone for CRHers in MO to get an 1838 reeded half in a roll! But you see, it's complete to MY satisfaction, that's what counts. I can now work on my next two types, a "holed coin 7070" and a PO1/Cull 7070...have very good starts on both!

! Broke her out, my kind of guy!

Nice to hear/see how others started.