What To Do While Waiting To Fill Your Holes

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Canadian Beaver Hunter Valued Member Canada 60 Posts	Posted 11/17/2012 12:46 pm Have you ever sat and wondered what to do while waiting for those last few coins to complete your set. As a focused collector I try to complete one subject at a time, not to say I would not pick up a good deal if I seen one. While awaiting a few last pieces in my Elizabeth 5cent set, and still trying to keep with my subject, I choose my birth year 1971 as a target. I had been working on business strikes but keep seeing proof likes around. So with a target year set and PL coins as the next subject, I needed a challenge so I choose Ultra Heavy Cameos. So to the books I went to do some research. With most books suggesting only less than a handful UHC existing per die set, I turned to ICCS pop report for the stats. PL64-1 PL65-2 PL66-4 PL67-1. So for the past two years I have be picking up these UHC coins and setting them a side, just the other day I took a look at them to see how I was coming along and lone and behold the challenge has been accomplished! So I thought. With all the coins lined up in front of me I noticed an extra one ( the holes keep coming ). And I guess that's why I will always be a collector! For The Love OF The Hobby and the future of collecting here are the pictures Report this Post to the Staff

DBM Pillar of the Community Canada 9865 Posts	Posted 11/17/2012 12:54 pm One or more was slabbed after the POP report was compiled. What's missing? "Dipping" is not considered cleaning... -from PCGS website Edited by DBM 11/17/2012 12:57 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Canadian Beaver Hunter Valued Member Canada 60 Posts	Posted 11/17/2012 1:08 pm I will see what's missing after the next pop report. But I have now finished this type set and we leave the rest of the finds to the world. This was just a fun little challenge for me, maybe I got carried away it appears the market is cornered for now. Time to exhibit Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10460 Posts	Posted 11/17/2012 1:09 pm The proof-like POP report is riddled with mistakes. I have ICCS coins, proof-like in ultra heavy cameo, that are not even listed in the POP report. The 1971 specimen strikes also can be found with ultra heavy cameos, have you thought about searching for those? I am a year older than you (1970), and have done a similar birth year collection, but with all strikes - I am still searching for a 10-cent with a heavy cameo or better finish. https://goccf.com/t/121847&SearchTerms=1970 "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Edited by SPP-Ottawa 11/17/2012 1:12 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Canadian Beaver Hunter Valued Member Canada 60 Posts	Posted 11/17/2012 1:33 pm I will consider the specimens SPP-Ottawa I also have a few coins not listed by ICCS that bothers me when they are not in the report and I never go by the numbers printed as I have seen many discrepancies there. Report this Post to the Staff
Coin Chick Pillar of the Community Canada 1354 Posts	Posted 11/17/2012 2:43 pm CBH I think your idea is neat about collecting the individuals for your birth year. Do you collect the other denominations for your birth year? Or does your forum name say it all. Lol. Report this Post to the Staff
Canadian Beaver Hunter Valued Member Canada 60 Posts	Posted 11/17/2012 4:47 pm CBH is my passion but I tend to pick up anything from my birth year especially errors, double date and things like that. I have many sets of different things, but what ever I am working at the time is the primary focus. For the last 8 years it has been five cents. Report this Post to the Staff
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