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Just curious how those of you who have complete modern set put them together. Di you buy a set, search through rolls saving.the best? Buy OBR and pick the best selling the rest? Only referring to modern coins circulating. Washingtons, roosies, jeffersons and LMC. Id like to get a AU/BU set if each and looking for the most cost effective and fun way to do it. |
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I cut up mint sets personally, but you can get A LOT of the coins if you just roll search and want to get them for face
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Almost all of mine came from normal circulation. The last few years have been rough, though. Very rough. Needless to say, starting with 2009, I have some holes.
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I save good looking examples when I am roll searching and when I get a bunch of them I go through and pick the best of each and put those in the album.
I would never cut up a mint set.
Edited by baysinger626
03/22/2013 6:21 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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I started all the modern sets years ago, pretty much all the coins I have are from
mint and proof sets. To me it seems easier to get the sets each year, break them
and put them in the albums.
Most of the older sets came be bought below issue price.
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I cut up mint sets personally I do the same. With debit/credit card use, I don't get much change anymore. |
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I do the same. With debit/credit card use, I don't get much change anymore. Im in the same boat. I always pay my cc off every month and with the cash back rewards theres an incentive to use that for places that dont give cash discounts |
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I bought an almost complete silver Roosevelt set for melt and and almost complete Mercury dime set for melt off of ebay. I picked up a Dansco album for both and filled the clad Roosevelt holes with coins from boxes and a few from mints sets I had doubles of and had to buy the missing Mercury's. I had to buy a 1970 mint set to finish my Kennedy album. All of the other dates I have found in boxes. The Susan B Anthony dollars were not so difficult but I lucked out as a teller had a 1979 close date in her tray that I snagged. The Roosevelts dimes, Kennedy halves, and SBA dollars are my only complete sets. I need 2 more Jefferson nickels which I refuse to buy as I am waiting to find them in a box, 2 more Mercury dimes, 1 Standing Liberty quarter, 3 V nickels, and now that the President and Sacagawea dollars have gone NIFC those sets are on hold. Good luck with your hunt and feel free to source your coins through whatever channels you prefer either to save time or money. Coins look better when they are mint but it is more fun to find the coins no matter how worn they look in the album. Edited by jack jeckel
03/22/2013 10:32 pm
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jack, what two? I may well have them laying around. As long as you aren't talking silvers or 50D, I can send em to ya. Golden, all my sets are as high grade as I can possibly afford. In the case of the Jeffersons, Kennedy's, and Ike sets I have completed, everything is MS and of course Proof. The Lincolns are certainly NOT that high a grade in the first few pages. LOL It depends on what you want. You can do an average circulated set of the clad coins and non silver nickels with fair ease from boxes. Its the silver coins that you will end up buying. Pennies, anything after 58 you can pull from circulation in about 2 or 3 boxes. Back to 40 will take a bit more and be really patient if you want to find pre 40's. I mean REAL patient. LOL Higher grades in any of them will obviously take longer to assemble from circulation. I am just about done with my circulated Washington quarter set. All of the clads came from circulation and a good portion of the silver my father pulled from circulation while he was roll searching in the 60s and 70s. The rest I am having to purchase, though I have managed to find a few here and there. Building the higher end sets is fun too. I do enjoy cutting up the mint sets and cracking the proof sets for the albums. And the coins look awesome in Dansco albums. Getting the older coins in those grades is gonna cost though. My Kennedy album and the Lincoln album cost a good bit. |
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I've got lots of modern sets. My main set is the clad quarters and they've come from all kinds of sources especially mint sets since these are higher quality. But many are picked out of rolls and bags since 1972 when I began the collection. Most varieties don't exist in mint sets as well as the '82 and '83 issues.
I also have the other denominations but they are mostly mint set or purchases from dealers since I don't spend much time searching them. I have a strictly "from circulation" set I started in 1996 for quarters and dimes and anything that's not needed elsewhere goes here. I also have two sets of the quarters from circulation struck on planchets with each orientation; or upside down and right side up. I'm losing hope that there's anything to learn from these though. If there's anything to learn it will probably require a far more in depth study than simply collecting the best of each type.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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I have been wondering the same thing. I have a full Kennedy set and have gotten all the non-proofs for a Lincoln memorial set. Now that I am thinking of the nickels, dimes, quarters, and eventually dollars, it seems to be cheaper to get mint and proof sets instead of buying them individually. I have some folders that I fill from rolls but I want MS coins. (I can always resell the Kennedy halves out of the sets.) I think that is how I am going to go but not sure how far back in mint and proof sets will be smart. I have back to 1960 but would buying a 1958 mint set still be cheaper than buying each coin individually? |
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I have back to 1960 but would buying a 1958 mint set still be cheaper than buying each coin individually? 1959 might, they get over 100 dollars at 58 though and get super expensive at 53 and earlier. The 30s sets are thousands of dollars each. I honestly wouldnt cut up those sets that cost a few hundred bucks or more. If I were you Id probably start with just filling everything with the sets you like and then pick one of them to finish before moving onto the next one. Like say do the franklin halfs then quarters ect. |
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@smokeriderdon
1938 S and 1939 S. I found a 1955 P last month which was the 3rd last coin I needed after 1 1/2 years searching and then 2 weeks later I found another. Go figure.
Thanks for the offer but I think I will keep trying to find one in the wild. I have found that once a set is complete the interest wanes and it just gets put away and forgotten about.
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I pull mine off the book case on a regular basis and stare lovingly at all my little preciouses. ;)
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03/26/2013 3:16 pm
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