The Joys And Pains Of The Type Set

type set was easy to do--7070 I am on my 1st still

I find completing a type set much more rewarding than a set of any particular series of the 20th century. Some of the 19th century issues are a bit pricier for the 7070 album but with a little determination one can save enough to buy those and when they are acquired there is a sense of accomplishment that a person will experience that can't be beat. Good luck with your 7070 album and happy hunting.

Ed
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Wait -- what happened to the first two sets you started working on?

philadelphian I like variety and being able to see multiple beautiful coins instead of just a single series. Sure a gorgeous 2 cent collection would be something to behold but to me a gorgeous type set would be a lot more amazing to see to me. The thing about doing such a limited set like a 2 cent piece is that every single coin you buy is going to run you over a $100 and you would rarely be buying anything, especially the higher the grade and the further into the set you go where every piece at some point might be over $500. I can afford to do such an expensive set and it wouldn't hold the joy of completing a type set will for me. And you can spend just as much on a type set if you wanted to do it in all MS grade or even AU. Heck doing AU grade on capped bust series coins or liberty Seated dollars would be very expensive and then even on cheaper stuff like a clad Roosevelt dime you could try and get MS69 or MS70 coins. I mean you are only limiting yourself on the type set if you want to. If you buy a F or and G coin when you clearly could be buying an XF or an AU coin that is in your budget sure then you are limiting yourself. But if all you can afford is that G or AG coin then you are doing the best you can do and the type set allows you to do that.

Ten years ago I had to sell my collection while in college to pay bills. At the time I had a fairly nice type set (much nicer then I do now) and a MS62 or Higher Complete Franklin half set and a fairly complete MS62 or Higher Roosevelt dime set. Of those three sets I sold the one that I lament the most is the Type set (I miss my gorgeous MS62 Type 1 Standing Liberty quarter the most out of that set). The Franklin set while gorgeous and one of the nicer sets you can find just doesn't bring me the pangs of regret my type set does (heck I had even started doing the gold page).

Barry the first two sets were sold during different financial crisis' in my life. The first one the nicest one was sold during college to pay bills and buy books. The second set was mostly sold during a stint of unemployment several years ago (I still have a lot of the more common items from that set like Roosevelt dimes, and Silver Washington quarters, you know the easy stuff to obtain). In fact its funny I was looking at what I spent then and what I spent now to reassemble the set and WOW silver prices make a big difference. Like I spent $1 on my Silver Roosevelt dime, $6 on my Silver Kennedy and just $3 on a Standing Liberty quarter fill in (my favorite coin of all time so I only use a cheap filler until I can put something gorgeous in there for it, I will be putting a MS grade coin in there for both Type 1 and 2). So far the set has cost me about $400 to get to the half way point and only $80 of that was spent before my last purge (I am sure that $80 would be like $125-150 at today's rates). I looked at the price of some of the things I sold and yea that has skyrocketed my MS grade Morgan was $28 that has cost me $50 to replace my MS grade Peace dollar was $20 that cost me $35 to replace where as stuff like the Washington Commemorative half and the Ellis Island Commemorative half cost me the same then as it did now.

nod I would like to eventually make my set XF or higher in grades and then yea make it nicer rarer dates or mint marks too. But I really don't mind getting say a 1922 MS63 Peace dollar for $35 one of my more recent purchases and then later on if I want to upgrade heck I will likely be able to get $30 trade in value on a nicer Peace dollar so if I got for say a $100 Peace dollar I already have $30 of it right there. Also I don't mind fillers like I bought a $4 Barber dime and a $10 Barber quarter because when I do upgrade those coins I am going to put them in my little boys type starter type set. But say I pay a $100 for a coin and then want to upgrade it to a $200 coin I at least have $80 wholesale on the one coin I can use to help upgrade with or just keep it the choices are endless.

just started the long haul of a 7070 last month and have only got a few easy ones put in so far. I'm doing many of my coins based on birth years, which actually works out nicely to fill much of the album. My years are 1835 (g. g. grandfather), 1885 (g. grandfather, *key year across the board!), 1913 (grandfather), 1953 (father), 1986 (me), 2011(my baby boy). Given that I am pursuing AU to UNC condition I am approaching the completion of this set with no time constraint as I have plenty of time to make the money to buy the coins in a condition that appeal to me.


. That gold page is going to be an expensive one!

Still waiting to buy a 7070, cant wait for the new ones to be released!

I am wondering what is going to be in the new 7070, anyone have any ideas? I was thinking if the new 7070 was cool I might turn my current 7070 into my little boys and switch over to the new one.

gr58 here's and idea to make the type set a little bigger they make a blank commemorative page with 16 holes in it (that would cover the entire modern commemoratives as there is exactly 16 or you could do a pretty nice early commemorative set on that page too). I plan on doing that as I have fallen a little in love with the commemoratives the more I went looking for just the 4 holes to fill and decided I also want to do a commemorative set.

I like upgrading sometimes it nice to take out that vf piece you bought and put in a nice AU or MS grade piece so much fun.