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United States
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I am getting rid of a lot of my sets because I don't care about them. They are just BV to me, and they will remain that way, and I will casually fill holes as I get coins for BV or otherwise junk prices. So, yes, I have a lot of holes. And I am proud of it!  Traditional set collecting (date and MM) just does not offer enough variety or beauty for my taste, hence my username. With that said, I am collecting a type set of Ancient Chinese spade coins. I have several holes left in that set, and they cost $$$. They show up ONLY once or twice a year in major auctions, if that. And they cost the same as a 1877 Indian cent, of which there are 250 on ebay right now. Here is one I am bidding on one in a Stack's auction:  The point is, if I want to spend $$$ on a coin, I want it to be truly rare, not these pseudo-rarities that the key dates are. http://esty.ancients.info/numis/rarity.htmlEdited by TypeCoin971793
08/09/2016 8:08 pm
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Canada
3733 Posts |
i am missing the 1948 Canada silver dollar for me to complete my set of dollars, then I may work on some of the varieties, as there is a lot of them..
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11951 Posts |
I am with the need one Mercury dime camp, 1916 D. All my president albums are complete. Lincoln, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Washington, Kennedy and ike. Franklin and Sac are complete. Dansco 7070 It is those classic that are tougher. Barber dimes, quarters and halves about half done each. FE and Indian head need 3 Indian head nickel need 8 Liberty head nickels need three 1885, 1886 and 1912 S Morgan's dollars, first album complete, second album need 4 Large cents and Standing Liberty ... I don't even want to count the holes. When I grow up I really want to work on filling some of those holes. |
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United States
2130 Posts |
I am slowly putting a Gold Indian Head Quarter Eagle set together in AU-MS condition graded by NGC. I still have a few to go but that stinkin 11-D is going to be a thorn in my side for a while.
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United States
1695 Posts |
I'm missing 1950-D and the 1938-S for my from circulation Jefferson set.
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United States
1316 Posts |
I need a coin dated to 1282 to complete a run of centuries for the '82s back through 1182.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
17884 Posts |
I need an S-1 (Ameri.) to finish my chain cents, An S-96 to finish my 1796 cents, an S-217 to finish my 1801 cents, and S-264 to finish my 1803 cents. I need an 1884 to finish my nickel Three Cent pieces. And an 1846, 65, and 67 to finish my Seated half dimes. Then for the common/easy ones a 16-D and 21 dime, and a 32 D and S quarter. Oh and a Hampshire D&H 63 to finish off my Hampshire Conder tokens, and I think a Wiltshire 5 to finish my Wiltshire Conder tokens. Edited by Conder101
08/10/2016 12:22 am
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Norway
1358 Posts |
I need just one 5 øre piece to complete the series. Same for the 10 øre and the 50 øre. However... most of the specific 5 øre pieces are either rusty, worn or terribly expensive (or a combination of those). The 10 øre pieces are expensive by default as only a few thousand have been struck. Same goes for the 50 øre piece: just one year, just a few thousand, not many in good quality. Now I do have a few coins in lesser quality as 'hole fillers', but these coins are too expensive even in lower grades to pull such a trick.
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 United States
5862 Posts |
Quote:But I will never fully complete my Flying Eagle cent album or my Morgan dollar album. Unless someone gives me $200K-$300K to get a 1856 Flying Eagle cent and 1895-P Morgan dollar. That's why it's very important to carefully define the sets you collect, I guess... When I decided to put together a "Proof Type Set", I knew there was no way I was ever going to be able to afford one the perfectly mirrored the 7070 album, due to all the different varieties included in that album (multiple Indian Head cents, multiple Liberty Seated dimes, Quarters, Half Dollars and Dollars, etc.). So I purposely decided to restrict my set to one proof for each general type (one Liberty Seated dime, One Indian Head cent, etc.) I also had to decide up front to wholly ignore any coins for which there either were no proof coins minted ( Standing Liberty quarters) or for which the proofs were extremely rare and/or insanely expensive. So, yeah, it doesn't keep me up at night knowing that I'll never own a proof Peace dollar or a proof Capped Bust half dollar. But that proof 20-cent Piece... |
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Russian Federation
5177 Posts |
Quote:That's why it's very important to carefully define the sets you collect, I guess... When I decided to put together a "Proof Type Set", I knew there was no way I was ever going to be able to afford one the perfectly mirrored the 7070 album, due to all the different varieties included in that album (multiple Indian Head cents, multiple Liberty Seated dimes, Quarters, Half Dollars and Dollars, etc.). So I purposely decided to restrict my set to one proof for each general type (one Liberty Seated dime, One Indian Head cent, etc.) I also had to decide up front to wholly ignore any coins for which there either were no proof coins minted ( Standing Liberty quarters) or for which the proofs were extremely rare and/or insanely expensive. So, yeah, it doesn't keep me up at night knowing that I'll never own a proof Peace dollar or a proof Capped Bust half dollar. But that proof 20-cent Piece... That's what I did for my 1 kopek type set. I know that a few of the copper types are crazy rare (1724 rectangle, 1762 drums, 1796 cipher, and obviously any patterns), so I'm not looking for them at all, but the 1750s cloud kopek and the 1800s ring kopek are clearly actual circulating types - but way too expensive for my budget (nice examples cost in the vicinity of $200). I got lucky with the late 1720s cross kopek by finding one in silly low grade - the prices for decent examples were similar. That sort of thing is harder for the silver issues, because there's no clear "type" disambiguation (Kleshchinov-Grishin is basically die variety, which is clearly far too narrow). I thought I was never going to get a sword kopek - until I got one; I'd have put the Swedish Novgorod type on the "no way" list too if the first time I heard of it wasn't just after I bought one (no, seriously). My current "way too expensive, but I need them" list for silver consists of False Dmitry, Vasily and Feodor III. My "no way unless I'm silly lucky" list is Vladislav, the Yaroslavl rebels, and pre-reform Ivan IV (and, if it's not a pattern - I'm not very sure - the round silver kopek of Peter I). And no, I can't immediately think of any "only missing one" coin sets, sorry (aside from a few cases where I have 0/1, 1/2 or 2/3). |
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United States
20753 Posts |
Only the 1913 Liberty Head Nickel, the 1894S Liberty Head Dime, the 1856 Flying Eagle cent and the 1793 Large Cent. For Mercury dimes I have 10 of the 16D's in 10 completed Albums. |
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United States
4409 Posts |
Yes, 1886 Liberty Head nickel 1916-D Mercury dimeboth Double Eagles a $10 Indian a $5 Indian -MV |
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United States
6130 Posts |
Missing a Japanese Trade dollar for my silver and base metal circulating Japanese type set. Since it is a $600+ coin in even remotely acceptable condition, it will probably be a hole for a very long time. Gold is another story entirely. I think I am missing 5 coins for my Jefferson set. I could easily finish it for less than $10, but that would taint my the fact that it is a CRH set. I probably won't ever return to CRH, so I don't know what I'm going to do about that. |
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Slovenia
459 Posts |
Well, for my first republic Latvian silver set I'm missing only 1923 1 lats. All I know of this coin is that it is ultra super rare with no idea of mintage or past selling prices. So I consider this set complete. :)
All my other collections are still far from missing just one coin (or two ... or three).
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Australia
21788 Posts |
I am tying to build an ancient Roman type set. About 15,000 main common types; I have about 80 so far. Only about 14,920 to go!  Simonetti and Banti have a partial corpus on the series, and is perhaps the best Krause like guide in the area they partially covered, before they gave up!  |
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Posted 08/09/2016 8:42 pm
