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I am putting together a type set of US quarters; small size capped bust through to Washington bicentennial. I have a six coin Capital holder for this, so its just those six coins. My original plan was to get progressively better graded coins as the set went along keeping each coin around the same cost. I have been thinking lately that now I want to keep each coin similarly graded. Now I can't decide which I would like to do. looking for feedback, what would you do? if I get progressively better grades they would progress as such: Capped bust VF, seated Liberty AU50, Barber AU58, Standing Liberty MS63FH, Washington MS65, bicentennial MS65. If I get al similar grades I will probably go for XF grades and cost will be a good bit less than the progressive set. or a third option could be to do the progressive set and up grade the earlier coins when I hit the lottery. Edited by Steele
09/17/2016 12:42 am
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So, are you buying certified coins or raw & estimating grades yourself? One of my collections is the year sets referred to in my signature. With those, I buy the best, most affordable coins that I can find. I buy them either raw or certified, but mostly raw. In one case, a Barber Half, I bought it certified and cracked it because I like to keep them together. That's just for the half, quarter, dime, 5-cent piece, and cent from 1859 forward. For gold or misc. issues I put them in air-tites and keep them in one box.
I don't know if that helps, but I think buying the best "now" and upgrading when possible is the way to go.
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I'm an Album type person. If I were doing what your trying to do, I'd get a blank Album and use that.
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One person's opinion on the original question: I think for the set in the Capitol holder, having coins of different generations but in roughly similar condition would look good.
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Thanks for all the feedback. I will be buying both raw and certified coins for this. doesn't matter as I will be cracking slabs to put coins in the holder. I will post pics as set progresses
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I'd probably include different grades for the simple reason that it would be pretty hard to find a bicentennial quarter in the sort of silly low grade that is the only I could ever afford to find a CB quarter in (aren't those like silly rare because only a few were ever made? when one hole has a very damaged example because that's the only affordable version, it's ridiculous to try finding similarly damaged examples for all the other coins - and you'd probably have to resort to doing the damage yourself for the bicentennial).
So I'd probably do a progressive set... let's say Capped Bust AG, Seated Liberty G, Barber VG, Standing Liberty F, Washington VF, and bicentennial XF (if I can find one that low). Probably less than that for the first two (and maybe for the next two too, but then I'd have to find a VF bicentennial and that's tricky).
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Capped Bust are not all that rare and certified examples can be found on ebay regularly. finding a nice coin, inexpensively, in a local shop can take some doing though. Bicentennials circulate commonly enough that I could find a nicely worn example in change easily for only 25 cents, I've definitely cashed a few in that were well circulated but being cupro nickel are pretty durable. |
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I really like that holder ..
Nice job filling it.
You could carry a 40% Washington around until it was
circulated enough ....For that last hole
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Those look nice together Steele!  |
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Looking good. |
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Thanks all. I really like the holder as well. its going to a lot of fun filling it and refilling it as I up grade the set. Quote:
You could carry a 40% Washington around until it was
circulated enough ....For that last hole those were my thoughts exactly. I won one on ebay last night that looks like it might have a bit of a head start. When I started I never thought that would be the hardest hole to fill. I'm going to swap the eagle back Washington out for one more worn next time I open the holder. Edited by Steele
10/17/2016 11:14 pm
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Posted 09/17/2016 12:54 pm
