Bruce Remick wrote:
"Dave Hinz" wrote in message
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Those of you who are doing a type set, do you put your key date coin for
the series in there, or do you put the best example of the series you
can find in there, or something else? Where do the key dates go, and
what's your thinking for it?

In my mind, having, say, a 1972 DDO cent in there for the Lincoln
Memorial cent is more interesting than some random MS69 zincoln, for
instance. Not that I have either right now but I'm trying to plan
ahead. Looking at my type set, for some it's easy (I only _have_ one
silver trime), but for coins where I also have a book, I'm kind of
undecided. Any thoughts? "Do it how you like", I know, I'm just
curious to see what other folks like or don't like about how they're
doing it. I don't have a lot of stress about cracking open slabs to
populate the books, but until I decide which one they're going in, the
coins are staying in the slabs. I don't want to handle some of those
more than I need to.


The coins in my 20th Century type set are highest grade examples I can
afford, and as such, this usually eliminates the key dates from
consideration. An AU brown 1955 DDO would look out of place among its
bright red sister Lincolns, even though it might be more interesting. But
even if the DDO were MS65R, I would prefer to keep it separate from my type
set. I also like uniformity in my type set, so I have selected coins all in
one particular company's slab.

With a 19th century type set, I would try for as much uniformity in
appearance as possible, and would still probably prefer to have the coins in
slabs rather than raw in 2x2's or albums. I never had much luck with BU
coins in albums staying BU, especially Gem BU coppers.

Bruce


Nickels don't stay BU either--depending on the album and how many times
it gets handled.
Actually most collections do not match at all. It takes a huge amount
of effort to get a whole set to match unless it's a short series.
But it really looks bad seeing a BU Kennedy on the same page as a G-VG
Bust half--which is what most people will do.