Registry Sets

registry set participants will always have a small part in the prices of MS/PF-70 coins being so high, in my opinion the only reason to pay for a 70 over a 69 is if you are trying to build a perfect registry set because chances are pretty slim that you would ever be able to tell the difference between a 69 or 70 when looking at the coin in hand without magnification

Thank you, its been kind of at a stand still for the past month but hopefully next month I will be able to go ahead and get the rest of the coins needed to finish it up finally. I have been working on it a little over a year which I figured it would take allot longer to finish but once I got started I couldn't stop and every spare cent I had went into filling holes in that thing

So do you think these coins will retain their value long term?

I am working on a Mercury dime registry set. It is such a marathon activity. I know I am never going to have the top set but I hunting for the coins I need is really fun.

I think the registry sets are interesting, but, that being said, I also think they are intended as a marketing scheme as well. I do have a Roosevelt set that I am attempting to assemble, but most likely, will never complete.

I think the term "registry" is very misleading. As long as a coin is graded by NGC or PCGS it can be added to someone's registry set. Take a look at some of the lower ranking sets and in some instances, you will see coins as low as MS 64.

All in the eyes of the beholder!

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Take a look at some of the lower ranking sets and in some instances, you will see coins as low as MS 64.

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When I had pretty close to a full date/mm set of Morgans my registry set was comprised of all MS-64 coins, I didn't go higher or lower than 64 for that set because I figured 64 was the best bang for the buck when I first started collecting. 65's were in some cases thousands more than a 64 so I figured 64's had no where to go but up in price (this was when I first started collecting and didn't really understand the whole grade thing, all I knew is that NGC or PCGS thought it was a tiny 1 point lower than 65). When it was about 95% finished my collecting interests had grown and I sold off most of them in the quest of a minimum of MS-67 Morgans for the Registry set. Well soon I got burnt out on collecting all together until I bought the Dansco7070 album because no matter what all the coins looked the same for the Registry set (after you had already discovered all the different VAM's you had collected) so then I started selling off the MS-67 and above coins to fund the Dansco7070. I did at one time have the #1 Registry set of 1878 B1 Reverse Morgans and I think my date/mm set was up to like 30th place when I started selling them off (I still had quite a few coins to go for this set to be complete)