When the sky is the limit for type set album

The virtual 7070 thread sparked my interest. I was working on it a while back - in fact a good decade ago! 2016 and 2018.

Photos proved to be a challenge as I didn't want to deal with copyright dramas. But I might as well show what I did in the past.

Note that photos are from numista - none are mine!

 

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I don’t understand. Why can’t you show a photo of your own album?

 

Yeah, come on show them, please.

 

I don't own a 7070. This is just a concept type set album.

My dislike of the 7070 is that it is arranged by denomination. What I tried to do is to illustrate it by types which presents its own set of challenges as the timelines don't necessarily line up. But who wouldn't want to see a set of seated liberty or a liberty head in a group?

 

I did not like the album either, BUT at the same time I like the concept of type set. It gets me a little bit of everything. All you have to do is collect the coins then get good pictures and arrange the pictures for presentation. I am not sure why I did this one a while back. My problem is I see nice stuff and just add it - so I have like multiples in a series. Like how many half cents do you really need.

 

If you look at what Dansco has produced for countries, it's significantly different. The US Dansco type set has the coins arranged by denomination. Most other world albums would have the coins arranged by sets which would align closely to the era that were issued. For instance if you were alive in around 1850s, you would expect to see a set of liberty head / seated liberty. It's definitely more challenging to arrange US type set but I'll give it a go.

 

I think chronologically by type changes would be a good way to do it. You would better see the changes made by the mint over time and what various denomination types were in circulation through the years. Putting all the nickels together for example doesn't show you that.

 

I think that's what I meant. So a small subset for example would be:

1834 Classic Head $2.50 Gold
1834 Classic Head $5 Gold
1836 Liberty Seated Dollar
1837 Liberty Seated Half Dime
1837 Liberty Seated Dime
1838 Liberty Seated Quarter
1838 Liberty Head $10 Gold
1839 Liberty Seated Half Dollar
1839 Liberty Head $5 Gold
1840 Liberty Head $2.50 Gold
1849 Liberty Head Dollar Gold
1851 Three Cent Silver
1854 Indian Princess Dollar Gold
1854 Three Dollar Gold
1856 Flying Eagle Cent
1859 Indian Cent
1864 Two Cent
1865 Three Cent Nickel
1866 Shield Nickel
1873 Trade Dollar
1875 Twenty Cent
1878 Morgan Dollar
1883 Liberty Nickel

I probably messed something up and I didn't include No Arrows etc stuff (I don't have a 7070 to look at) and I guess there's with and without gold to consider. Maybe someone wants to fill in the rest? Anyway, it's interesting to see it this way and how the mint jumped around changing denominations.

 

Why are gold coins white?

I could fill your album, but not with coins in Gem BU.

 

I was reviewing the timeline of when various coins were released. It's quite interesting to see the overlap. I understand why Dansco had to design their album the way they did.

I'm not well versed in US history. I'm sure various events such as civil war, industrialization etc all played some roles. My personal opinion is that current album designs do not represent different eras well.

There's always different ways to present. Wouldn't hurt to see things in a different light.

 

I intentionally changed the color to black and white as I don't own any of the coins.

 

I meant chronologically with the first date for each type, because "the sky's the limit", but obviously a very expensive undertaking for a 1794 dollar etc. But you could label them with a date range for the type, in order chronologically, and then put any date in the hole.

I got stuck on this notion when collecting the Barber dime hub type anomalies and then decided to get the first and last date for the overall types. So I picked up an 1892 and 1916 for the first Rev1 and last Rev3 even though there weren't any anomalies in those years. You could also do a first and last with the overall type set. So many interesting ways to collect.

 

Do other countries more frequently change the designs for all denominations at once? (I know about British coins and royals, but not much about others.)

In the US, I think things are a little too chaotic for that arrangement to make sense. Just in the 20th century, we had these design changes (and I'm aware I'm leaving some out):

Cent: 1909 (Indian -> Lincoln obverse), 1943 (steel), 1944-46 ("shell case" alloy), 1959 (Memorial reverse), 1962 (bronze -> brass)
Nickel: 1913 (Liberty -> Indian/Buffalo), 1938 (Jefferson/Monticello), 1942-1945 (wartime composition/mint-mark placement), 1968 (mint-mark placement)
Dime: 1916 (Barber -> Mercury), 1946 (Mercury -> FDR), 1965 (clad)
Quarter: 1916 (Barber -> SLQ), 1932 (Washington), 1965 (clad), 1990s (whenever they went over to the noodle hair), 1999 (start of the State Quarters)
Half: 1916 (Barber -> Walker), 1948 (Walker -> Franklin), 1964 (Franklin -> JFK), 1965 (40% clad), 1968 (MM placement), 1971 (no mo silver)
Dollar: 1921 (Morgan -> Peace), 1971 (Ike), 1979 (SBA), 2000 (Sac), and that's not even counting all the intervals where none of any type were struck

Other than 1916 (end of Barbers) and the big composition change in 1964, few of these changes line up with each other. A "teens" set could have a Liberty or Buffalo nickel, Barber or Mercury dime, Barber or SLQ, Barber or Walker, and no dollar at all. A "twenties" set would have only one choice for cent, nickel, dime, quarter (ignoring SLQ sub-varieties), and half, but two choices for dollar. And so on...