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Quote: You could try a mint mark set (5 coins) as a start MeadowviewCollector has a good suggestion but I will take it a step further. All 5 mints which also include all 5 decades of production. EX: 1878-P, 1882-CC, 1890-S, 1901-O and 1921-D. All are easily obtainable in whatever grade you decide upon. You would also have first and last years of minting.
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That would be a good idea to start. Maybe you could expand and get all the coins from a decade and then work from there. A Morgan is one of the hardest and most expensive sets there are. Some people spend their whole lives trying to get a complete set of Morgans.
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I have been working on a complete Morgan set for a while now. I am down to 15 and they are the high dollar ones in any condition. It is very expensive to put a complete set together. I am just going to go as far as I can. I have accepted the fact that it will never be truly complete. I went from buying 4-5 common dates a month to 1 semi key date every 3 months!
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I can concur... I've got 65 of the 96 and it does get pricey... I'm in the same boat now with trying to acquire the tougher dates. Still have a few common to pick up but I'm reaching that point of one every once in a while now. It's been loads of fun though..
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getting such low grade coins aren't that great.....not very easy to sell and people will lowball you
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New Member
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I have just started getting Morgan's... I have one 1884-S and another AU to Uncirculated 1900 dollar. I like the ideas of the decade/mint sets! Well, I still have quite a while to keep on collecting, so there's a chance I can get reasonably close after 50 years or so!
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Quote: so there's a chance I can get reasonably close after 50 years or so! Yeah .......... I'm reasonably close after 50 years or so ...... 
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I started collecting Morgans in 1977 and to this day I do not own a key date and lack several semi-key dates. I'm thinking about selling my Dansco albums and maybe getting the date set album. If it weren't for getting hooked on VAMs I probably wouldn't even be collecting Morgans today. There's a lot of cool common date VAMs out there. 
Edited by dave700x 01/15/2014 1:44 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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I was given my first Morgan dollar, an 1882o, by an American colleague of my Mother's in 1976. A few years later my parents were visiting the same lady in Dallas and she had a whole lot of Morgans - she asked my Mother if she wanted one - and my Mom pulled out a 1921s, as it was her year of birth! (Would have been nice if she'd been born in 1895, but my birth would then have been biologically impossible). That coin later ended up in my collection. It was when I discovered my first American LCS on a business trip in 2003 that I started buying other dates. I have been trying to get one coin for every date (not mint) of issue and now am missing just 1893 and 1895. I haven't got any slabbed Morgans - the condition is mostly VF to about MS62. Perhaps I may move onto mintmarks and VAMs later. There are no other 19th-century foreign crown size coins that I've ever attempted to collect by date like this - Morgans are definitely addictive!
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United States
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I started with CC's and then went to O mintmarks. I like having the coins from mints that don't exist anymore. Now that I have all of the CC's and most of the O's, I now look for better coins in certain dates to upgrade....if it is within my monthly coin budget! I may start with S next as I do have a few S marks along the way.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2130 Posts |
fasttalker...That is an interesting way to collect Morgans. I like it.
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New Member
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 That is quite interesting! What grade would you suggest buying each coin in depending on the rarity?
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New Member
United States
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I have a complete set of CC Morgans and that was tough enough. One thing you MUST be aware of is that the Chinese are making forgeries of the many key dates, so you would have to reply on the top TPG's and they are costly, and even the slabs are now being copied. Good Luck
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New Member
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I was thinking of picking up a caliper and scale, so that would help. Is there a way to detect it without exact measurements?
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