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My final two Mercury dime grades posted today. Line # Item # Cert # PCGS No. Coin Date Denomination Variety Country Grade 1 1 1847XXXX 145442 1945-D/Horiz D 10C US VF30 2 1 1847XXXX 145449 1935-S/S 10C US AU50 My complete variety set will be updated later tonight once the cert numbers process. It is pretty exciting for me to be the first Mercury dime Complete Variety set to be finished at 100% The 1935-S/S was the most difficult coin in the set with the 1936-s/1929 possible overdate being the second most difficult. For any of you on the PCGS boards you would recognize me as fcloud. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Wow, AWESOME achievement. What a feeeling to complete a set and a difficult one makes it all that much more rewarding! Congrats!
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Bedrock of the Community
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cool I am happy for you on your accomplishment. I know how exciting and challenging it can be to complete a registry set 100% especially one that includes varieties
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Thank you. I started the regular set somewhere in the 2002 range. That set was complete in about 2007. The complete variety set was started in December 2008, so it took about two years to find 23 additional coins. Many of the varieties are less than mint state, but finding them in any state is an accomplishment.
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 Amazing accomplishment - hard enough to complete a Mercury dime set not to mention the varieties too And dare I say it? Oh, ok...  |
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United States
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Okay, KenKat, here is an image of the last one. 1935-S/S AU50.  You will find my set loaded with images if you do a search on google for a. r. s. collection pcgs 50239 (I'm too new to be allowed to post a link.) Edited by arsave
11/08/2010 8:20 pm
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That is one heck of a set. Wow. I'm speechless - and that's pretty rare!
Love the 1942/1 (P) overdate.
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Pillar of the Community
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#1 set of all times!
Very Nice! Very difficult! You must feel great about it! Thanks for having the pics up. Too bad more don't.
Got anything else started? (never mind I found it :)
Side note: That PCGS site is luring is it not!
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11/09/2010 2:23 pm
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United States
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Thanks fellow collectors. Yes. It feels great to complete this diffecult set. I searched out and found many of the varieties raw. The first two I cherrypicked out of my own rolls. After that I was hooked. Now finding some upgrades may take some time and effort, but I'll keep looking.
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If no one else has said it .....  to the forum arsave. There is a great group of folks here ...... glad to have you with us. Fantastic accomplishment you have achieved .... Thanks to Bryan for posting the link ...... amazingly wonderful set of lovely coins you have assembled. Looking forward to your future input ...... David |
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WOW! I am VERY impressed! (as in Flabbergasted, Gobsmacked, Speechless!) What an unbelievable set! Thank you VERY much for sharing!  and to the Forum!! |
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I don't know what to say. It's beautiful,impressive.  |
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Very nice! I know that took some time but way to stay with it!
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I'm in the stunned mullet group, too!  Wow! |
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