Commemorative Coins In Type Coin Album

To me there is not enough holes for the commemoratives, I am lamenting a decision I made today. I stopped by a pawn shop on the way home and they had a nice selection of commemoratives more so then the coin store in fact. I had enough money for one commemorative dollar around $35 and they had 4 commemorative dollars to choose from. An Ellis Island, a Community Service, a World War II 50th anniversary and a Constitution 200th anniversary. The Ellis and the Community Service were the cheapest at $30, the constitution was my favorite at $35 and the World War II was a two set piece with the half dollar as well for $40. I could have easily run home and grabbed another $5 and got the World War II set and finished my commemorative halves and dollars in one foul swoop (I already have 3 commemorative halves spots filled a columbian, a Washington 250th Anniversary and a Liberty Ellis Island half) but I really wanted to do the set for now as two modern and two early commemorative halves, I even picked out the second of the two earlies I wanted either a Lexington or a Stone Mountain.

So I went with my favorite coin of the bunch the constitution but now I am sitting here thinking man I wish I had gone for that World War II set as I could have gotten a second commemorative for just $5. Problem is I want to get an Eagle or an amazing AU-BU Standing Liberty quarter next )I should have enough money in a week and half when I buy my next coin to spend $100 on a nice Standing Liberty). But that darn commemorative half set is going to tempt the heck out of me now I could easily just get an Eagle and that set instead of a nice SLQ or those two coins instead of a really nice Lexington or Stone Mountain or even a really nice one of those and an Eagle arghhhhh

Not enough spots in that set I really want my 4th coin to be an early commemorative but I really want that set too ahhhhhhhhhhh

Go back and get the community service dollar. It by far was your best value.

lucky dawg the mintage on those is 23,500

Be waiting when the door opens! The Community Service in MS wholesales @ $140!!

I found a blank modern commemorative half page on ebay, you can take that page and actually put every single modern commemorative half in your Type set with it instead of doing a new book. This is what I am going to do with the modern commemorative halves and then I will do separate books for the Modern Commemorative dollars and the early commemorative halves.

I used Modern proof Halves in mine as well because when I first got the album I was like the OP and said "Yuk! I don't even like commem halves and there is 4 slots for these things in here". It seemed really stupid and since I couldn't just leave it with holes unfilled I got some of the designs I liked better than some others and that were fairly cheap. After having the set for a few years I started switching the modern commems to classic designs that I liked allot better and actually had some type of meaning to me

As a lot of you know, I've branched out a bit into some of the lesser known coins struck by the U.S. Mint and it's a great adventure. There could also be room in the 7070 for one or more of the 1883 Hawaiian silver coins struck by the San Francisco Mint and designed by Charles Barber. The Philippines also had silver coins struck during WWII by all three U.S. Mints. There are actually quite beautiful. And the list goes on........ PG