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How about a full collection of US commemoratives, including the two $50 Panama gold commems?
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A complete set of coins depicting the British monarch.
Goooood luck!
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Liberty Head eagles. Start with a short set of all the San Franciscos or Carson Citys. You won't have to do this in MS to reach 6 figures....you could easily get over that hump in 4 coins or less...this one alone gets you almost halfway... http://www.brokencc.com/modules.php...od_id=134794And looking at it, that English monarch set would be much tougher...Aethelbad, Offa, etc....this might need considerable metal detector work... "Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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10/16/2015 3:41 pm
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The list of such impossible sets is nearly endless. Whenever I consider my next collecting challenge I always start with how long I think I have patience for working on the set FIRST. I know what my monthly budget can stand, and it's not hard to add up the numbers for whatever grade range you want, but even if I can afford a complete Barber dime set in high grade, do I have the patience to find all of those? After I've made an honest evaluation of the cost of any set and I know how long it will take to complete that set I can figure if it's really something I want to challenge. I mean, if money is the only issue for your set - why don't you buy all five known examples of the 1913 Liberty nickel. That would be an impressive set. |
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If you mean Monarchs of the Kingdom of Great Britain, start in 1707 with Queen Anne.
If you mean Monarchs of the United Kingdom, start in 1801 with George III.
If you mean Monarchs who have ruled over the island commonly known as Great Britain, aka "Britain", start in AD 43 with the Roman Emperor Claudius.
If you mean Monarchs who have ruled over a political entity known as "England", start in AD 927 with Æthelstan. :)
Confusion reigns supreme over all when dealing with this particular area of history ;)
A set of one coin from each ruler is doable and affordable by mere mortals. A set of all the coins from every ruler is probably not. If you include territories held by the Crown and protectorates/Crown Colonies, etc...yeah. Forget about that.
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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The only one of the English leaders that gets me excited is Lord Protector Cromwell. You could probably put together a year set of shillings and sixpence for well under 6 figures. It would take a few satisfying years to do it. And a Commonwealth set should include Massachusetts.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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10/16/2015 6:23 pm
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It would be astoundingly difficult to assemble all the dates and mints of the Mexican "Cap & Rays" 8 Reales, even if your floor for the grade was only VF. I dont know if it's ever been done yet.
Colligo ergo sum
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10/16/2015 6:36 pm
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I appreciate all the other ideas given. I think I'm gonna try the FH SLQ. They are a difficult enough series, but trying for MS65 and up FH should take me years to complete. I also am currently working on a 7070 in AU and up, so whoever mentioned that I'm on it.
I think the SLQ series has plenty of growth if I ever need to sell or my kids sell when I die. I mean a 1916 67+ FH sold in 2000 for $77,500 in 2010 it sold for $195,500. Morgan are the most popular coin, but I feel the bubble has to pop sometime. There are millions of Morgans still tucked away waiting to destroy pop reports and lower the prices.
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I lack three SLQ's to complete my set. When you hold that small, thin silver coin in your had and wonder why you paid 10,000 bucks for it that should make you think about birth, life, death and infinity just like Dr. Zorba. I do think these quarters are appreciating in value I just am not sure why. If I am able to get one before 1925 in EF condition I feel a tingle run down my spine.
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I passed on a 1917 type 1 MS64 FH at $1200. I know the dealer and he's had it for a while, so I thought I could get him down a little more. Two weeks ago at the coin show I went right to him with a grand in hand and he had already sold it. I've got a 1917 type 1 MS62 FH coming in the mail right now that was right around $400 shipped. That one is getting cracked out for my 7070.
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10/16/2015 9:52 pm
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All Jefferson nickels with full steps is impossible. No such thing as a 1967 SMS (or normal business strike) Full step nickel. |
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Once I found an incredible 1968-D Jeff- one of the best struck nickels I've seen- and still no FS.
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There's a lot of such "impossible" challenges (and a few that are very much possible but really hard), but within the US Classic region, most of them come down to "set of X type in high grades", which... just isn't that interesting, really.
My personal proposal: a date set of a really old (ancient, early modern, or medieval if you can think of any) and reasonably long-running dated coin series (you can try to get mintmarks as well, if applicable).
There's some guy who did a Jesus-lifetime date set of Tyrian shekels; supposedly some of the coins in his set were only known examples of their date. IIRC, somebody on this forum did a set of Hungarian denars from the 16th century (which are currently filling up the How Far Back Can We Go II thread).
Ultimate challenge: a set of one coin for every year, from 1 AD to 2000 AD (with possible extensions to past and future - it shouldn't be too hard, comparatively, to do the 1st century BC, and if you get to 2000 you might as well continue to the present).
As far as I know, it's probably theoretically possible, if you can think of a way of working with Arabic dates, and - if possible - probably easier than some of the other suggestions in this thread, but... good luck is all I can say. OTOH, if you actually complete it, you'll probably make numismatic history (though, to be honest, even if you just work out whether it's actually possible, you might still make numismatic history just from that).
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How 'bout a set which CAN be achieved for a reasonable cost?
An OFEC* set?
* One From Every Century, from the inception of coinage, 2,600 years ago? A statement of the development of coinage from the start to the end, 26 coins in all.
Each set done by a collector would be completely individualistic, totally different from every others' set.
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