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Pillar of the Community
United States
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(Disclaimer - someone will certainly say this needs to be in a different forum, so please move it as appropriate, but the topic mentions storing, well...) My first serious collection as an adult is my 1946 birth date collection which I began some 5 years ago. It now numbers over 250 WW face/mint mark different pieces not counting US coins. I wanted to do something special with this collection so I came up with something that kind of looks like a slab using mylar flips, and board flips trimmed to fit the mylars. I also print a strip of coin descriptions and cut them to size to fit the mylars. Here's an example:  At a previous post jbuck (thank you) posted a comment about using a Dansco 7000 album which takes pages holding 12 2x2 flips. Previously I had been using standard 3-ring pages but this left a horizontal strip. Also, the light weight pages had a tendency to say gunder moderate weight. So I ordered a Dansco 7000 and here is a sample page:  and a pair of pages showing the backs of one page and the fronts of the next page coins:  It will likely take me 6 albums to contain my collection (including the US coins.) I have one adult son who enjoys silver coins and bullion, so I think it might find a welcome, if not nostalgic, place in his home some day, if not his heart. I need some 15 more coins in BU shape as improvements and another 12 in any shape. Most are pushing the $100 mark. But he makes big bucks, so maybe I'll stick with my Mexico type set for now :) Probably several of you will find fault with the complexity of my mounting process and the storage requirements. I admit, it's not for everyone. |
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United States
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What a great idea! And especially that your son will have a place in his home and heart. Looks great.  |
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United States
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I'm doing the same thing for my birth year (1941).
I haven't made a count of how many coins it will take to complete the set.
And some coins are hard to find even if inexpensive (<$5).
But I'm definitely skipping the very expensive coins; those that the catalog show as "rare" and high priced.
Vatican gold from 1941 are one group like that.
I can't see your coins well but it looks like your overall grades are higher than mine.
I've got a LOT of zinc coins which definitely don't hold up well over time.
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 United States
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That looks really good! I am glad my previous comment helped you.  |
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Several years ago, I bought a 1945 and 1947 year sets (cent, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar) for the birth years of my wife and me. I'm not about to look for 1945 and 1947 coins from all over the world but congratulation on doing what you are doing, 999fine. Now, I want to upgrade the condition of the two sets that I have.  Hope I'll be able to do it but  if I don't. |
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 United States
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Dollarman - I completely understand. It's a daunting task if one already has one or more serious interests. It's the collection that got me back into coins after a 50-year lapse. My my, things have changed in coin collecting!
I have no intention of doing one for my wife, but I admit to having a collection of a stamp and it's postal uses that was issued on the day of my wife's birth. None for me that I know about.
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United States
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A birth year set is an idea that I have on my long list of coin collecting ideas, to be tackled after I finish my remaining Dansco sets (ten holes in total) and my recently started slabbed Ike set.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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United States
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A birth year set is great. I have been assembling mine for a few years.  92 countries: 296 coins & 6 notes |
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United States
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That is impressive, Fuzzy.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2608 Posts |
That's an awesome set 999fine! As someone who's collection needs to be better organized, I'm very impressed by your process! And as a college student, I'm taking notes  |
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United States
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Very interesting way to display such a diverse set. I too have been collecting the Identical set. Born 12/46. thought it would be easy and cheap after years of collecting almost all US coins. Boy was I wrong. One of the biggest challenges was just assembling a list of all the coins I needed to collect. I would be very interested in your list, what you still are looking for and what you may have duplicates of. I have come up with a total of 265 coins in the set. Still need 24. India Princely states has been confusing for me. Would love any help or information about your quest. Mine has become an "expensive obsession" to quote my wife. EELIV |
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Canada
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Very nice display! A birth year collection is something that I have pondered from time-to-time. So far I've only picked up birth year uncirculated sets from Canada and the U.S.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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What a great idea. To bad they weren't making coins when I was born. |
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 United States
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I started my world birthyear collection (goal of just one coin from each country that issued) with some coins from my childhood collection in varying condition. I completed it a few years ago. 68 countries, some of which I have multiple types. I learned a lot along the way ... I was surprised at some pretty large nations that did not issue coins that year, or at least did not issue with that date (Spain, Poland and Greece for example). It was still at a time when colonial empires were largely intact, so the set is dominated by portraits of Queen ELizabeth (15 countries, or more than 20% of the collection). I spent just over $500 (no coin over $30 though I didn't set that as a goal), buying almost exclusively on ebay. Some of the coins are uncirculated, and the most expensive coins were larger silver coins in high grade, but I was surprised at how affordable these were (thanks to ebay). In some cases I would have waited a very long time to find a certain coin in high grade, so I just settled. It was great fun! |
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United States
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just curious. What was the Birth year you were collecting.
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