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Date-Only Set Collecting

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 Posted 05/16/2012  4:29 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Milehigh to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Are there any forum members out there putting together a date-only set of U.S coins. This is my primary focus of collecting right now, and I'm concentrating even further with 1900 on. So far I've completed the cents section (1900-date), and am 4 Roosevelt dimes away from completing the dime 1900-date set.

The nice thing I find about this sort of a set is that it encompasses all type coins, and can be progressed on without having to pony up for expensive key dates. (One glaring exception to this is the 1916 Standing Liberty quarter.

Once I am nearly done with 20th Century plus, then I will continue on in the 18th-19th century issues. Since I hope to get this mostly accomplished in my lifetime, I'm not overly concerned with getting the highest grades of all these issues. In fact, a number of my coins come from the dealer 'red boxes'. My only criteria on many of the older coins is that they have full rim, and good visual appearance for their grade. Most of my late 20th century material is pulled from circulation with a smattering of uncs, and proof coins thrown in here and there. Again my focus is on having some kind of representative dated piece for each year of each type.
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Im doin a set of coins from everywhere and anywhere as far back as I can go, just dates. So like for example I have a 1913 Buffalo nickel for 1913 and a giant george penny for 1797
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 Posted 05/16/2012  5:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I have considered doing one for the dollars.

These threads from GR58 are my inspiration...

https://goccf.com/t/80643
https://goccf.com/t/87150
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That's a nice looking set o' dollars. Thanks for the links!
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date set as in a year set? caus I got one for halves. 1892-1963
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I do date sets for early US copper. While I attribute each piece I have I just don't try to collect the die varieties of US Half Cents and Large Cents. For me it has made collecting them more enjoyable.
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Can be a tough call looking for particular date coins, especially THAT early.
I applaud this strategy, but to make such a task more interesting and perhaps more possible to achieve, how about trying for
several date - only sets at the same time?

My approach to obtaining the harder to find coins is to emphasise on these from the start.

That is why I suggest going for the 18th and 19th century issues first. They will take the longest to find, and meanwhile, the easier ones will just find their own way into your collection.

I once did a type set of Australian coins, where each date was represented with the rarest date for the type. A rather obtuse way of collecting, but it can pay handsomely in the long run.

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Normally I don't try for a date set only. But when I started on the Large Cents I'm glad I got a Whitman Classic Large Cent Album. It is for year only and since there are a Billion different types of those things, I'll just stick to one of each year. And that way I'll be able to finish that Album eventually. I have been considering doing that with some other coins but being an Album person, not easy to find ones for year only.
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