So Who's Currently Working On A Type Set?

Oh no worries, this is in my watch list :) But on the same note, what fun is buying a full set and being done? I'm in it for the hunt :)

IMHO.....A type set like a Dansco 7070 can contain (there are other albums) is a wonderful way to collect coins. If a collector starts a type set it can provide a lifetime of work and enjoyment.

For the beginning collector it is a fabulous way to learn about dozens of types of coins and over 200 years of various coin related U.S. and world history. For the intermediate to advanced collector it is a way to bring their own individual style to an album collection; choices of year/mint mark, grade, tones, errors are available for all budgets if you take long enough to "work" the collection.

In my case, an extreme example of variation from my normal mode as a collector is the number (in the dozens) of slabbed coins I have "broken out" for my type set; it just did not and would not look right with a "note" and a "hole". The number of slabbed coins I purchased over the years for my set would have made the album look like a "map to my type set" rather than the array of the nice coins I have lovingly gathered.

Regards,
afernbaugh

I am working on a type set collecting. I am going to start with 20th century coins. I tend to like them the best anyways. But, once I collect the 20th century coins, I will probably be ready to move into 19th century coins.

Do you think that there is any money to be made in creating these 7070 sets and selling them? That could be a fun way to collect coins.

Like everyone else, I'm filling a few folders. I've already completed the Jeff nickels and Rosies and probably never will complete the cents folders, except for Zincolns. I'm almost done with the recent Canadian pennies and Mexican centavos, too.

But what I'm really having FUN with is going through pounds and pounds of foreign coins to build a type set of sorts of near-current, obsolete type sets of coins from as many foreign countries as I can. I've found a very few little "treasures" (like the silver 25-centavo piece from Venezuela that someone missed), but along the way I'm educating myself about foreign coinage and acquiring a taste for designs. I won't say which countries I consider having the worst designs (although some of them are in Europe), but I've found that Mexican coinage is my favorite, and I'm leaning towards British coinage as the second (who can resist those huge bronze cartwheels? And maybe a large part of my predilection for Mexican coins is having stood at the top of the Pyramid of the Sun at Tenochtitlan, featured on the 20-centavo bronze coin). Eventually, I'll probably go the 2x2/binder route myself for coins for which no folders are available.

Got three type sets but I could say we're only really working on one of them.

Have a US type set in Capital Plastic, not the 7070 but the full set back to 1793 except gold. Haven't added anything to it for a long time though because there aren't many holes left. Need the first three Half Dimes 94-95 flowing hair, 96-97 draped small eagle, and 1800 - 05 draped large eagle. Need a draped small eagle dime, a 1796 quarter, a flowing hair half dollar, a draped small eagle half, flowing hair dollar, draped small eagle dollar, draped large eagle dollar, and a seated with motto dollar. Total eleven coins.

Have a twentieth century set, all in proof except for those issues that don't come in proof ( Standing quarter and Peace dollar), those are Uncs. Just missing the Barber quarter and half. Haven't picked up anything for a couple years now.

Then there's the world type set, one coin of each type from each country since 1860, not including gold or NCLT. That one is still growing on a regular basis.

Slowly working on a 7070. About 20 more holes to fill.

I have a 7070 with 18 holes remaining. I have not done much with it for a while since I have been trying to finish all of my modern series.