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Pillar of the Community
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You may want to consider doing the set in a common date, but not the most common date as there is too much competition on resale with the most common date. If you were going to do a Morgan, something like a 1879 S or 1881 S would be a better choice for both quality and resale than the 1921. Both the 79S and 81S have some high quality examples in MS64 that the 1921 can not match. You could do this set in semi prooflike with the Morgan 79S or 81S that would make the set a little challenging and not break the bank.
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04/15/2024 4:17 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Good advice! I suggested a common Peace dollar as a possibility because, at least to me, it is the most difficult of all our silver coins to grade and to comprehend how the TPGs grade them. |
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Fun way to collect! I think I would go for Walkers though as they are my favorite larger denomination design. But I don;t collect slabs anyway. When you do get them all, make a post so we can all see them!
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Bedrock of the Community
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Try early Type 2 Buffalo nickels or 1918-1921 Standing Liberty quarters sometime if you want to see a huge grade spread. I've got a long-held suspicion that I could take, say, a 1919-D Standing Liberty in "VF something" grade and submit it to TPG's and get everything back from Fine to AU. 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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All great suggestions. I'm finding if it's to common like a mercury 1944. I can get in 63-65 for really good prices, but no one CACs a 1944 Mercury until 66 or higher, now the price is going up . I see now I have to start with a CAC coin first to set the base line, then the others should fall into place. I do like Peace dollars and the Walking Liberty reverse is the best on any coin. I think larger coins would be the best way to go. I'll keep thinking and keep everyone updated. Thanks again for the input and keep it coming. |
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So does that mean you re going with the Peace dollars? From what I heard it is the easier one to fulfill. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I cannot imagine a wider likely grade spread than on Peace dollars for non-gold coins. Edited by Coinfrog
04/15/2024 9:36 pm
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I like the idea of a 79-s or 81-s Morgan like Slider suggested. If you want to expand it later you could include PL and DMPL with those dates.
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Pillar of the Community
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I think you will find it difficult with Peace dollars, because strike is so important with them. You can certainly find, say MS63, but a lot of them are going to be ugly, weakly struck coins. I recommend Mercury dimes from one of the early war years - they seem to be common. Or one of the 1936-1938 Buffalos. -----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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I decided on 1879-S Morgans, it meets my criteria. It's a big coin, it has a mint mark, affordable in MS, easy to off load (Large group of Morgan collectors) and a date that has no repeating digits. My first coin arrived this week. I have 2 more on the way and I still have 2 more to seek out. I can't wait.  Dan |
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Fantastic!  Good luck with the hunt!  |
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Just had a minor setback...lol.
2 more packages arrived today for this challenge, but only 1 coin was in one of the packages. The other package was opened and no coin was in it. If you happen to see an 1897-S Morgan in MS from ANACS laying around, let me know. The package could have been mechanically opened (postal machine drama) or it could have been opened by hand, hard to tell. I'll be stopping back at the post office tomorrow and see if they found it laying around the shop floor.
Coin collecting is always an adventure.
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Valued Member
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This reminds me of a time when I bought a guitar and it looked like a fork lift went through it. Completely destroyed but thankfully an inexpensive guitar and usps made it right.
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Pillar of the Community
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Very interesting idea, I'll look forward to seeing the comparison photos! And sorry to hear about your misadventure with the USPS...
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Just had a minor setback... 2 more packages arrived today for this challenge, but only 1 coin was in one of the packages. The other package was opened and no coin was in it... Oh my! I hope you are made whole.  |
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