Closest To A True Complete Type Set

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djluster Pillar of the Community United States 1327 Posts	Posted 04/06/2007 11:00 pm Ok I was thinking is it posible in a lifetime to have a true type set collection. Meaning have put together one of each type of coin set. this could be made without the main keys the ones that most would think are almost impostible. or should I say 90-95% complete. I am not sure if my qustion is really clear but what I want to knwo has anyone came close or is it posible to put togther ever set of US coin minted. in all denomintion. I have not done a price look at what each set would cost minus the coin that above 5000 each. this doesn't mean you still own the set but have put it toghter up to 90% complete. Minus the Gold coins Or I guess after everyone is done depending on how close we get we can see as a group how close we can come to a complet type set between us. Edited by djluster 04/07/2007 01:26 am Report this Post to the Staff

djluster Pillar of the Community United States 1327 Posts	Posted 04/06/2007 11:04 pm OK I will start I am nowere near it. but here is my list 1958-2007 Lincoln cents 1938-2007 Jefferson nickels 1916-1945 Mercury dimes (-1916D) 1946-2007 Roosevelt dime 1999-2007 State Quarters 1964-2006 Kennedy half dollars 2000-2006 Sac Dollars working on Franklin half dollars so those are mine but I have put these together over the last year and half. so I ma not sure over my lifetiem if a complete type set is possible. but I sure would love it. Report this Post to the Staff
Bryan1315 Bedrock of the Community United States 14454 Posts	Posted 04/07/2007 03:54 am I believe there are some people that have accomplished the goal including the gold coins, as far as having every coin that has been minted by the US from the first type of coinage in each denomination to each type of coin when the book was finished. It would be hard to say one was finished unless you just put a cut off date on it somewhere because the US Mint is going to keep coining coins all the time, so there has to be an end to the book you are putting together Report this Post to the Staff
Ken_3567 Pillar of the Community United States 651 Posts	Posted 04/07/2007 07:42 am It depends what you define as a type and whether or not we are talking circulating coinage or federal coinage. If it's circulating coinage then the smallest set including gold would cost about $47,000 assuming AU/BU grades for 20th & 21st century coins and AG to VF coins for 18th & 19th Century issues. If you exclude gold it drops to around $6000 with the same assumptions. If your definition still evolves around circulating but includes all varieties then the total would be about $202,000 with gold . If you exclude gold it drops to around $42,000. I don't mean to plug a website here but it's already broken down at the following site http://typesets.wikidot.com/start but the site only reflects circulating coins so if you want to include all federal coinage then thats a different story as you'd have to pursue every commemorative & bullion type piece. Edited by Ken_3567 04/07/2007 07:43 am Report this Post to the Staff
Berry Valued Member United States 394 Posts	Posted 04/07/2007 08:26 am Try the Smithsonian Institute in Washington,D.C.!! If anybody, they are the ones... I am speaking about all coins minted in the U.S.A. since our founding. Berry Report this Post to the Staff
djluster Pillar of the Community United States 1327 Posts	Posted 04/07/2007 10:31 am ok here is my what I am meaning. if you look at all of the coin albums that DAnsco or any of the coin albums out there. is is posible to get one album of each and make all the sets. I am not talking one example of each coin I mean the whole set of each ciruculated sets.so basicly if you buy all of dansco albums or lets say the Harris folder could someone put together all of those sets. I think it is a almost imposible task but I knwo we have some collector here who have been doing it for 40+ years just wounder who main set they have put together. SO let me change this a little list all of the US set you have made up to 90% complete and we can see who might have put toghter the most set and came the closest to all of the sets. Report this Post to the Staff
Ken_3567 Pillar of the Community United States 651 Posts	Posted 04/07/2007 11:06 am Whoa...that's big! Well I'm out. I've got the attention span of a gnat and never got past 60% of any album except a 7070 without gold. Report this Post to the Staff
AuldFartte Pillar of the Community United States 830 Posts	Posted 04/09/2007 1:38 pm Sounds like a tall order, and one I wouldn't even consider. I have completed one Dansco 7070, gold page included, then sold it and I've started my second one. I also started the Half Cent and large cent albums, but I doubt I'll finish those unless I win the lottery or something Report this Post to the Staff
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