Thread: Ancestor Challenge Timeline

Ancestor Challenge Timeline

I came up with an idea to collect birth year coins of my ancestors.

1832 for my Great Great Grandparents ( Fathers side of the family )




Now to work on some of my other ancestors from my "Family Tree Maker" computer program.


My 700th post!

I just added a 1832 Capped Bust Half Dime (mintage 965,000) to my Great Great Grandparents birth year collection.







Anybody else collecting any birth years of your ancestors?

Cool idea. I put together sets for my mother and father and gave to them, but luckily they were born in 1942 and 1944. I know of a few very famous numismatists who started out trying collect their birth years, one unfortunately was born in 1799, (tough cent), and the other in 1873.1873 was a very interesting year numismatically.

I thought about putting together sets for my parents, but Mom was born in 1930, and US coinage was a bit sparse during the 1930's. ("How come Mom doesn't get a dollar OR a half-dollar?")

hi again
long time reader, 2nd time posting. i did this with my grandmothers birth year. 1892. got them all but the 2.5 dollar gold piece. its a nice set. i know what your thinking, how about some pictures!!! don't have a camara. love the forum, even after 50 years of collecting i'm still learning!!!!

Originally Posted by RobbyR

hi again
long time reader, 2nd time posting. i did this with my grandmothers birth year. 1892. got them all but the 2.5 dollar gold piece. its a nice set. i know what your thinking, how about some pictures!!! don't have a camara. love the forum, even after 50 years of collecting i'm still learning!!!!

Nice work RobbyR,


Do you have a Printer/Scanner that you could scan some of the coins? My Half Dollar & Half Cent were scanned.

Originally Posted by -jeffB

I thought about putting together sets for my parents, but Mom was born in 1930, and US coinage was a bit sparse during the 1930's. ("How come Mom doesn't get a dollar OR a half-dollar?")

I helped my cousin out, he wanted to do his grandfathers. His date was 1931, very sparse as well, just cent, nickel and dime excluding very expensive gold. I had a nice AU nickel laying around I gave him for the set.

Mcblzr
i'll have to try that. one of the kids probably knows how!! i forgot to mention how nice your half and half penny is.

I picked up a 1832 Large Cent this week in decent condition.

McBlzr-
I started this a few years ago and am going from my grandparents to current. It equates to roughly a type set however I don't really have enough family to make it a full type set so I make it up as I go. I enjoy the variation on it. My local coin shop had never heard of someone doing it and they appreciated the approach, too. Thanks for the story and the reminder!
-L

This year of Capped Bust Quarter is not the easiest to locate. 320,000 mintage

First images with my scanner




Second images from my Kodak Camera






Now to find a decent 1832 DIME !

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I got this dime in the mail today. Another hard to find one with a mintage of 522,500

This sounds like a cool project. Unfortunately our family don't really keep in touch and plus my grandparents are deceased.

I stumbled across this 1832 U.S. Mint token for my Great Great Grandparents ancestor collection

Wow, McBlzr, that's some find, and for Great Great Grandparents too! Nice piece, very cool...
-L

Originally Posted by McBlzr

I stumbled across this 1832 U.S. Mint token for my Great Great Grandparents ancestor collection