Sets You (Almost) Completed Unintentionally

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Finn235 Pillar of the Community United States 6130 Posts	Posted 01/26/2016 09:44 am A few weeks back, I decided to pay a visit to the zip lock baggie where I keep all of my Canadian coins, from a combination of circulation finds, ebay, and vacation money (my family has made a tradition of bringing foreign change back from vacations abroad). After separating the coins by denomonation, I realized that I was only missing a handful of the 1952-2012 QEII cent series, of course ignoring the ones that would not be found in circulation. In addition, I suspect that I am getting close on several other sets, particularly the 1 and 10 yen sets from Japan. Excluding one- or two-year types, what sets have you completed or nearly completed without specifically trying to complete? Report this Post to the Staff

T-BOP Rest in Peace United States 18456 Posts	Posted 01/26/2016 10:23 am I stumbled upon Liberty Head Nickels with full ''liberty'' About a year ago. And have been fascinated about them ever since. So I decided to pursue the entire series. At present time I only need 4 coins to complete the set. Maybe just a couple of my V-nickels are missing just one letter of Liberty. This set to me has now become top priority. Report this Post to the Staff
moxking Rest in Peace United States 17900 Posts	Posted 01/26/2016 11:22 am Realized I only need one more Two Cents. But you know which one I'm missing, of course. Report this Post to the Staff
fioti Pillar of the Community United States 4212 Posts	Posted 01/26/2016 11:46 am I have a box found folder 1/2 done PF Jeffs. Found a '61 the other day. Report this Post to the Staff
OcalaFlorida Pillar of the Community United States 2824 Posts	Posted 01/26/2016 12:19 pm awhile ago searching Mercury dimes I bought a lot of silver dime lots, junk silver etc to get certain coins over time and I went to start Barber dimes I knew I found a couple but when start to gather them up I filled 2/3 the dansco with the odd one from here and there but the ones still I need are no small task compared at least 3 were beyond my current low budget they not pretty but I now want to finish the lot as is. Edited by OcalaFlorida 01/26/2016 12:24 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Finn235 Pillar of the Community United States 6130 Posts	Posted 01/26/2016 1:17 pm I had completely forgotten about my Mercury dimes! About 2 years ago, I helped liquidate a coin collection for the owner's estate. I was offered compensation, but I opted to cherry pick my favorite few coins for my fee. I also struck a deal with the estate that I could reject the LCS's offer for any coin and purchase them myself for that price. Ended up with three rolls of merc dimes purchased for melt that I cherry picked from the junk silver. I put them together and found I have maybe 3/4 of the whole series. Also got a couple album pages to make about 1/3-1/2 of the Barber dime series, also purchased at the dealer's bid of melt value. I don't think I will ever complete them, due to the mind boggling cost of those key dates. Edited by Finn235 01/26/2016 1:23 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Bertensgrad Pillar of the Community United States 1192 Posts	Posted 01/26/2016 1:36 pm Junk silver Roosevelt dimes. It flew by so fast. Still love that album even if it's just melt value Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 188415 Posts	Posted 01/26/2016 3:15 pm My 7070 started out as one I thought I got a big jump on. I got it just under half-full the day I bought it, but after almost twenty-three years I still have three empty holes. Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
january1may Pillar of the Community Russian Federation 5173 Posts	Posted 01/26/2016 3:34 pm There were a few cases where I completed (or nearly completed) a set from a single bargain bin. The largest of these sets had 24 coins in it, the second largest was, I think, 16 out of 23 (I've since got two more of that type). For the record, I'm talking about the situation where a particular bargain bin happened to have very many coins of a single nice-looking type, and I decided to pull out as many different dates as I could find. The 24 coin set took me two hours crouched over a single 10 ruble (~$0.15) bin (during which I also found some other cool coins not of that type), but I definitely loved every minute of it, so I don't complain Not sure if it counts under the OP; I certainly did not set out to complete any set when I started with the respective bin, and in many cases (not for the 24 coin set, which I checked in the coin shop's copy of Krause, but certainly for most of the others) I had no idea how many coins the full set would have had! In particular, in the 16/23 case, I suspected the set had 15 coins until I accidentally found the 16th, and then thought it had 18 - I didn't find out that there were 23 (there was one year where the mintage was much smaller, so I didn't get any examples of that year) until checking it on Numista later. Also, a few years ago some guy I barely knew gave me a nearly full set of US State Quarters (that I never otherwise collected). I don't think that counts, but whatever. Report this Post to the Staff
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