#1192623 - 05/07/06 06:47 PM
Re: What You Need to Know: Thoughts on the US Type Set
[Re: Regis44]
|
Bruceswar
TOTAL NEWBIE
Registered: 10/27/03
Posts: 8296
Loc: Mesquite, Tx
|
Thanks for the great information Tom and Victor... Foe anybody who does not really know these 2 guys.... both are great stand up guys along with many others on the forums...
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1192624 - 05/08/06 12:28 AM
Re: What You Need to Know: Thoughts on the US Type Set
[Re: TomB]
|
EVillageProwler
Can you get Grey Poupon at a baseball game?
FACT if I stop posting, trillions and trillions of transistors would be out of work.
Registered: 02/23/02
Posts: 4477
Loc: near NYC
|
Interesting thread, and excellent too. I offer a variant on Type Set building...
I have formed several complete (minus the real stoppers like a 70S dollar) marathon sets - classic and modern - and begun to realize that it's frustrating to have to buy a coin just to fill a hole. Take a MS61 1859O dollar - who'd care about that?!? Plus, it's a bit monotonous to look at an entire run of Seated Dollars. (Yeah, I actually do know how each date should differ in terms of appearance, but after a while it gets very boring anyway!)
What I do now is to go after noteworthy coins only. For example, for my Seated Half "set", I have only a few coins. But, these coins are key dates only, with the highlight piece being a high-grade circ key that has 2 attractive chopmarks! My sole Lincoln cent representative is an SVDB in 65BN that is vividly and attractively colored. (Always wanted one as a kid, but never could afford one!) My sole classical commem is a MS64 Lafayette with attractive peripheral toning (a huge jump in price at 65!). And, the core of my Capped Bust set has the Russ Logan provenance.
No longer will I spend my time and money on non-descript coins. They tend to be lousy investments financially and in terms of personal appreciation and enjoyment.
EVP
_________________________
I have never lived in Spokane, nor do I like skulduggery and chicanery. I do, however, like to take my meds and avoid acting like an old fool. I can be reached at evillageprowler@gmail.com. 
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1192625 - 05/08/06 01:28 AM
Re: What You Need to Know: Thoughts on the US Type Set
[Re: TomB]
|
Brotherman
Talkative?
Registered: 04/13/06
Posts: 825
Loc: KY
|
Tom and Victor - THANK YOU! As one of the people that just started this very type set, your posts read as if they were written just for me! Packed full of information and a little encouragement
too. What more could you ask for? I'm in Lex. right now but I am so glad I took the time to check this site - I have bookmarked this page for future reference!
Hays
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1192626 - 05/08/06 02:08 AM
Re: What You Need to Know: Thoughts on the US Type Set
[Re: Brotherman]
|
michael
TOTAL NEWBIE
Registered: 01/28/02
Posts: 11095
Loc: western ny state
|
Tomb and Victor - THANK YOU!
 
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1192629 - 05/08/06 04:10 PM
Re: What You Need to Know: Thoughts on the US Type Set
[Re: James_EarlyUS]
|
chinook
The Post-man always rings twice. Uhm... ring ring?
Registered: 07/18/03
Posts: 1923
Loc: upstate NY
|
Excellant read Tom!!!
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1192630 - 05/08/06 07:29 PM
Re: What You Need to Know: Thoughts on the US Type Set
[Re: TomB]
|
TomB
TOTAL NEWBIE
Registered: 01/28/02
Posts: 11788
|
I'd like to thank everyone for the kind words about the thread and also for their participation in the sharing of experiences. Also, Victor deserves enormous kudos for posting so much useful information regarding this issue.
Similar to some of the other folks who post here, I also have a type set on the NGC Registry. Mine is here and will never crack the very top of the category. It is a fun set and is also a fun way to attempt to share knowledge. 
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1192631 - 05/09/06 01:47 AM
Re: What You Need to Know: Thoughts on the US Type Set
[Re: EZ_E]
|
Hoot
TOTAL NEWBIE
Registered: 02/07/02
Posts: 7451
Loc: Big Sky Country
|
Tom and Victor - Superb! Both of you articulated well a great diversity of important points regarding type collecting. Thanks for taking the time.
I also appreciate EVP's comment, "No longer will I spend my time and money on non-descript coins. They tend to be lousy investments financially and in terms of personal appreciation and enjoyment." Both Tom and victor also talked about this in their own way. Composing the set of decsript coins can be accomplished in any grade, and the resultant assembly will be an artform of continuity, as such.
My current approach to type collecting is found in my Transitional Pieces of 1836-40 Signature Set.
Hoot
Edited by Hoot (05/09/06 03:15 PM)
_________________________
I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without ever noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~Rainer M. Rilke Signature set: Transitional Pieces of 1836-40
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
Moderator: ngcmod, CCGmod0, PaulS., Barbara T
|
|
