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Bedrock of the Community
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Bedrock of the Community
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I beleive you guys had to much high hopes for this set lol, but anyway sorry the pics werent on here when you looked the first time. as I said the first time there are a few coins that are on the way but haven't arrived yet but the copper coins and the dollars was the ones I was frantically trying to finish up, even though the dollars wasn't as bad as I thought it would be the copper coins was a huge chalenge especially without having to take a loan out on the house to afford one cent coins. If I hadn't been putting the set together myself I would have never beleived those little coins could ever cost so much and that is the few and far between problem free coins that are out there. I bet there are 1000 coroded/scratched/cleaned old copper coins to every 5 problem free coins, and probably 1000 to 1 for coins in AU50 and above
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Valued Member
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 Very nice set!
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Valued Member
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
577 Posts |
I've got to hand it to you, you have put together an incredible set. Keep up the great work!
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Bedrock of the Community
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the Trade dollar wasn't all that bad, I got it off of ebay from a guy I have done business with on many occasions and all I did was email him what I was looking for and the next day he emailed me saying he had just what I was describing and even though I have made the suggestion of buying streight from him to save him the ebay fee's he refuses to do business like that because he say's it protects him and the buyer so I never argue with them as long as its not costing me more money. Anyway the next day he says he has just what it sounds like I am looking for (I asked for something in the AU-50 range but nice) and he says he will be placing it on ebay at a specific time with a buy it now and if I like it and like the price buy it if not he will keep looking, well I sat here twiddling my thumbs waiting on the specific time for him to upload this coin to ebay (he gave me a specific time so I could be home if I was interested) anyhow to save from making a long story longer I went onto ebay about 2 minutes after the time he said he was going to be listing the coin and went to his ebay page and started looking through his newest listed items and see this coin and even though I think it has probably been dipped it wasn't harsh;y cleaned and still has beautiful luster so still a no problem coin in my eyes even though not an original coin and he has the coin priced about 100.00 less than I was thinking about paying for a AU-50 (which I beleive this one is better than AU-50) so I clicked the BIN and he shipped it out the same day. So it was one of the coins I was kind of hesitating buying because I was scared I would have to either lower my standards and get a AU-50 but maybe one that needed to be dipped to make it look better (even though I wouldn't have done it) or I thought I would have had to save up a few weeks to purchase one I really liked, but I got the best of both worlds, I got one I really liked the look of and also paid 100.00 less for it than I thought I would have to pay for one I didn't really like all that much
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Valued Member
United States
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Nice. Very Nice, my friend.  Now I gotta start one of those. Just one of them things you gotta get done as a collector.... MM 
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Pillar of the Community
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Nice set, I love the seated lib and the Trade dollar. Good job!! If you don't mind me asking and I hope I'm not out of line in asking this, what was your budget for this set?
Edited by shatsi 10/30/2006 10:17 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Awesome set Bryan1315 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Bryan.. The set is beautiful!!! Especially the half and large cents!  christina
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Bedrock of the Community
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quote: Originally posted by shatsi
Nice set, I love the seated lib and the Trade dollar. Good job!!
If you don't mind me asking and I hope I'm not out of line in asking this, what was your budget for this set?
lol I started with a budget in mind before I had ever even shopped for for most of the coins and quickly saw that my budget I had in mind considering the condition I was wanting just wasn't going to happen. So I then gave myself 500 per coin to spend (Ha!) and then decided I could rework my initial numbers to work with me instead of against me, I would say I have 500 to spend on this hole, if I spent much less (which I did with alot of the coins) I had extra money to add to the 500 for another hole. For example the commems, I paid no more than 30 bucks for any of them (I think anyhow) so that left alot of money to add to the the 500 per coin for the copper coins (which I have to be honest I dont think many of them was priced under the 500 mark). I figured I had 30-40 years to finish the set so was no reason to buy fillers that I didn't want just to fill a hole, I would just save up until I could afford a coin I liked in the grade I thought was acceptable. I went with modern commems just because I dont really like commems anyway and I do not think there needs to be 4 holes for commems in the Dansco 7070 for half dollars, but they put them there so I figured I would atleast fill them, so I bought some PR69 moderns and filled the holes. Anyhow I beleive when the dust settles and the album is complete I will either be really close to or maybe even a little under the budget I had figured I would spend on the whole album (atleast thats what I keep telling myself). I do have a few coins that I will probably upgrade but the only reason the coins are in there filling the holes now is because these coins were already in my collection and I just placed them in the album when I first started it thinking I would probably upgrade them first but the early coppers just captured my attention and I have been dealing with them just about the whole month because I started seeing just how few and far between nice coins were on the market and figured it wouldn't be any better in 5 years so I better get the ones I liked now and can always find nice silver dollars or Seated quarters
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Pillar of the Community
United States
533 Posts |
Nice set!!!  Every time I see one I can not help but think how badly I want to start one. Someday, money willing, I will be able too!!
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Valued Member
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
830 Posts |
Very nice set, Bryan!
The Dansco 7070 is a lot of fun to build. I sold my complete set about a year ago to fund the purchase of some British Victorian coins and other miscellaneous stuff. I have now started another 7070 with an eye towards higher quality coins than the former set. That Draped Bust Large Cent is gorgeous!!!
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Pillar of the Community
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That is a great Barber half.
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