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Hi, I was wondering how many of you start second, third, etc. sets once you complete (or come close to completing) a set? I just started a second Jefferson nickel album I had lying around. Thanks! |
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United States
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I started a second set of Lincoln cents as I had extras from Upgrading the main set. I also have an 80% complete slabbed Indian Head cent set. |
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Doesn't @justcarl have like seven lincoln set sets?
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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I have 2 full sets of cents, nickels, dimes, quarters, halves, and all the different dollars - one set all in OGP and the other in my Dansco albums. (but I'm still working on filling up my Franklins though - so not 100% on that one..  |
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United States
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I completed my Jefferson set in January. I had two Dansco albums, one business strike and the proof only album that I got as a gift. I intended to do a second set, but lost interest. I am currently mulling this over again, though. I am currently working on a Lincoln Cent 1909-2009 set, but I intend to do some kind of second set eventually. I'm just not sure how I wanna go about it yet. However, I don't know how realistic this either considering the decline of the cent and rolls of them seem to be disappearing. Edited by Humanist1287
10/15/2025 05:25 am
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I don't keep duplicates. There are very, very few exceptions to this rule.
Since I collect "one of everything, thanks", I don't really even come close to "completing a set", either.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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After I complete one set that's enough for me. Then I just buy blank Dansco albums and fill them up with the coins that I have interest in from building the sets.......   |
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United Kingdom
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It happens in the UK too. When the Olympic 50p's came out in 2011 I bought an uncirculated set from The Royal Mint, and then collected my own set from change and bag searching. Later I got a Whitman style folder for the set and decided to save another set.I am still missing a third Wrestling coin to put in it! Edited by NumisRob
10/15/2025 05:26 am
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United States
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If you like the coins then do another set. I'm working on a BU set of Lincolns but I also have my circulated wheat cents from years ago before I got out of collecting. Now that I am back in it, I want to get a nice Dansco 8100 and move them over as well as get the Memorial cents. Albeit at a slower rate but just for fun. I'm working on a graded set of SBA dollars but I'll probably have and album set as well. |
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United States
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I have my main sets of clad dimes and quarters which are the best I could find in circulation since 1996. Additionally I have a set of the nicest looking most heavily worn quarters I have found. They obviously started melting thin quarters back around '08 so this set has become mostly stagnant except for a few later dates. I also have a right side up and upside down set of quarters. I had thought there might be something interesting to see in the orientation of the planchet when it was punched out of the sheet but I'm sure not seeing it.
I also have Gem sets of the circulating coins.
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As for me, the only set I have completed twice would be the Eisenhower dollars. Well, duh.  Original set is in a Dansco album. I started them with a folder in 1978, moved them to a Dansco in 1984, completed it in 1993. The second one is a PCGS graded set. Started in 2016, completed in 2022 (the" extended" set in 2024). |
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I at one point had a few sets of Lincoln Cents.   |
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United States
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Not modern but I have an A set, B set, Dansco set and Whitman set of morgans plus a year set.
I am a little obsessed.
The best eye appeal goes in A then as long as they are not slabbed they trickle down from there. Any extra slabbed or uncirculated go in my "high grade extra" notebook. Any circulated extras go in 2 x 2 holders and in my "extras" notebook.
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Posted 10/14/2025 6:55 pm
