So I'm currently working on a U.S. coin Dansco 7070 - in PCGS form. It'll be neat but pricy to complete, so I'm looking forward to it. However, since the
Morgan dollar is my favorite design, denomination, and size I'm also going to put together a year and mintmark set along with the 1878 varieties.
I want to work on them both, but I'm going to have to choose one for now. I'll get a few coins for each set and see which one I enjoy the most so I can pursue that. I'm currently leaning toward a Morgan set.
I like a lot of other designs that I'll enjoy getting for the type set (WLH, SLQ,
Peace dollar, Braided hair large and
Half Cents), but others (Liberty $2.5, $5, $10, $20, other gold $1 and $3,
Barber coinage) I just won't like spending the money on. No offense to collectors of Barber (I know there's a lot of you... Sorry!) collectors and Liberty gold collectors, but that's just me.
So a little about the Morgan collection that I'll plan on putting together...
I plan on making this a neat thing to do. I'm going to have a MS grade set (60-68) on the more common years. The MS67 will be the 1879-S and MS68 will be the 1881-S, the two most common years in uber conditions. San Francisco apparently took pride in their Morgans. I'll put together all the MS-63 to MS66 easy date years first, then move on to MS easy date CCs, then move on to Key date years in lower conditions and try to put a set of below MS grades:
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EDIT: I will also include one or more PL examples and one or more DMPL examples)
-PO 01 and FR 02 will be difficult, I made not include them
-AG 03
-G 04
-G 06
-VG 08
-VG 10
-F 12
-F 15
-VF 20
-VF 25
-VF 30
-VF 35 (eek, lots of VF)
-XF 40
-XF 45
-AU 50
-AU 53
-AU 55
-AU 58
-MS 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68. No 69 unless I win the lottery.
All of these in one set:
-Date set: 1878-1921
-Mint mark set: P, D, S, CC, O
-Grade set: PO 01/AG 03-MS68, along with one or more PL and one or more DMPL
-Major variety set: all of the 1878s, 1879-S variety, 1880/79-CC, 1880-CC 8/7 reverse of 1878 variety, and so on.

Thanks for looking. This is gonna be fun!