Anyone Actually Finish A Date Set?

Lol. Wow I really have to choose my words really careful here lol. Ok ok. I'm on board.

Here in Canada, circulated coins include

Penny, nickel, 10 cent, 20 cent, 25 cent, 50 cent, dollar, two dollar. Composition, style, size are irrelevant. Denomination is always the same.

Example. 1858 large cent started circulating. 2012 was last year in circulation. If I have ONE coin representing each year. That's a date set.

No varieties, errors, mules, special damaged coins, no special mint marks and every other thing you guys can think of lol.

That's what I thought you had meant. You would need several million dollars to do that with US coins even if you exclude the 1913 Liberty nickel and 1804 Dollar.

You would need Half Cents, Cents, 2 Cents, 3 Cents, Half Dimes, Nickels, Dimes, 20C, Quarter, Half Dollars, Dollars, Gold Dollars, Gold 2 1/2 Dollars, Gold 3 Dollars, Gold 5 Dollars, Gold 10 Dollars, Gold 20 Dollars.

There's actually a 4 dollar gold too but I left that out. The $20 gold alone is almost a 100 ounces of gold which would be six figures if you could do every date for bullion pricing which you can't

For a true date set of everything its way out of the price tag for most collectors even with gold excluded.

If you started after 1835 it becomes much more doable. Most series after that could be accomplished with the date set and not have to sell your first born but some would still be difficult like the Seated dollars where 1851 and 1852 is going to hurt.

Once you get to the Morgan dollar era and beyond I can't think of any years that would be show stoppers for silver or copper

Yes and no. There are early 1800s and 1700s things that are within reach of most collectors, BUT if you wanted everything for every year that's when you are going to run into the show stoppers.

If you're considering it you can always go for it and then just leave out whatever isn't financially feasible

I started with a Morgan Date set, but after loosing track of what I had, it morphed into a full Morgan set.

My apologies Dave, I mis read that one. Thanks for clearing that up :-)

I'm not interested in tackling American coinage. I think my hands are full for a while with Canadian coinage all on its own lol. I'm most definitely willing to spend some larger dollars down the road for the coins I would need and save money for the ones I would like to have such as that 1858 20 cent I'm eyeing up.

I just know the challenges that await with the Canadian coins and am just trying to understand or educate myself on the challenges that you guys must face having more denominations and a longer history to dig up. I feel bad for you guys and gals. that it seems to be a out of reach goal for pretty much everyone. Although a set from say 1800 to date is a huge accomplishment!! I like knowing that I have an opportunity to put a full date collection of all Canadian coins in all denominations together and to hold that history in my hands before it becomes nearly or unattainable. The designs are nice but it's that pride of holding my entire countries history and being able to show others and tell the stories of how and why coins come to be and why they come to pass. That's why I do it. The coins are just coins but you put them altogether in one place with the story.... now you got something :-D. JMHO.

So please feel free to keep commenting and adding. Add pictures of one of those hard to come by coins you got your hand on. Would love to see pictures of a date set of a particular denomination!!

https://www.PCGS.com/auctionprices

Easiest to decide for yourself at this point

I would love to see pictures of your cent collection. :-).

Baseball...... I've been looking at that link you sent me and I'm understanding what you are saying regarding costs. Pretty crazy record numbers posted up there. Thanks for that link!