Building a Type Set

How do people get their coins to do what swirly movement thing?

 

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Thanks for pointing this out. I have that album. Just started recently. I need to update my "My US Type Set Coin Journal" thread.
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-us-type-set-coin-journal.364314/

And why is the statehood quarter slot only up to 2008?

 

Rick - See the thread Animation and Coin Photography. At the end of the thread is another link to my specific setup in Post your coin photography set-up.​

Two quarters arrived yesterday. The 2009 was shown at the bottom of the previous page of this thread.

The second is another coin that @C-B-D found for me. This is an 1854 Seated Bust quarter with Arrows. The arrows were added to most of the coin denominations to signify a reduction in silver content. I wonder about the extent to which that information made it out to the general public. If it did, you can imagine they saved out the previous coins with the higher silver content.

This series is described in great detail on the NGC web site. This is an excerpt:

In Mint State, almost all the dates prior to 1853 are extremely difficult to find. There are two reasons for this: First, the weak strikes of this era made many coins look more worn than they actually were; and second, the melting that took place around 1853 due to the increasing value of silver forever destroyed vast quantities of coins. ​

This brings the Quarters section nearly to completion. The 1854 is at the top, second slot from the left. That means there are only two more quarters to go - a Capped Bust and the Liberty Seated with Motto.

 

I don't think I ever posted the 1858 Flying Eagle before. So here it is.

It was a PCGS XF40 before I cracked it out.

 

@RonSanderson my best guess about the Washington 2009 clad spot is that the album was printed before the US Mint announced the 2009 DC and Territories Quarters. The legislation for those was only approved near the end of 2007.
So Intercept thought the 2009 coin would be something different (or possibly a return to the design of 1998).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_and_United_States_Territories_quarters

 

Some coins in a type set are scarce, but others are easy to come by. Even a common pocket-change type of coin should be appreciated for its design, strike, color, and finish.

I went to a large online retailer and bought this 1962 Lincoln Memorial Cent Gem Proof Penny for only $2.13. But this is still a lovely coin, a proof struck early in the series with a copper color curing towards a deeper red. I hope you enjoy it like I do. I actually have a couple of more of these, just as nice, that I showed in posts #4464 and #3132.

 

What's wrong with this seated liberty quarter at auction? Weird.
Not interested in buying, but just curious.

 

What's wrong with it? Someone graffitied the life out of it. (probably shouldnt slip that one into this thread)

 

Here is another cent for the type set. An 1819 Coronet Head is a far cry from the Lincoln I just posted above. I admit I posted an 1820 in post #9. It is still too nice for me to crack out. I got this one so I wouldn't be quite as terrified of de-slabbing it.

It was an XF45 before I freed it up.


Now it is raw again.





Things are progressing in the Large Cent part of the album. That 1854 Coronet Braided Hair is just a pocket piece that usually sits on my desk. It's keeping the space filled until an 1856 arrives in a few days. It's the same situation I am in with this coin. I have an 1855 with stunning red luster, but I just can't bear to break it out for the set.



Edit: Wizard Coin Supply warns the prospective buyer that this album has a hole that is too small for the Braided Hair cent. I noticed from a photo in another thread that someone else fixed it the same way I did.

I took a Dremel tool with a sanding drum attachment and ran it around the inside of the hole until the cent would fit in. Unfortunately the green paper looks a little tattered, but I think an Exacto knife would slice off a tiny bit of that. (You can see the other Intercept Shield album in post US Type Set finally finished has exactly the same tattered edges.)

 

Those old coppers take such awesome pics when surrounded by the green.

 

I would have said Intercept Shield.

 

Intercept Shield. I really like them.

 

As for that, I don't like it.
I'm trying to look at an image for details and it keeps changing.
Can't see what i want to see.

 

The animated images only serve to show luster (if any), and to a lesser extent, trick your brain into seeing a bit of a 3-D profile as the light shifts over the coin. The GIF format only supports 256 unique colors per frame, so they aren't good for critical viewing. Their size is also somewhat large, so I keep each photo at 1600x800 pixels - which also limits the detail available. And, GIFs do not have a dedicated Web viewer that lets you step frame by frame.

I wish the technology were better, so I could post at 1920x1920 pixels with full color fidelity. Instead, I post one image for the obverse and reverse at the maximum resolution CoinTalk supports. I hope you expand some of the still photos to see whatever you want.

A New Penny

Today's addition is a replacement for the Braided Hair cent I mentioned in post #29, above. This is raw, but from a dealer I have worked with and who has a storefront that is within driving distance.



And two still photos that can be expanded to CoinTalk's maximum resolution.



The photo looks a bit like the last one, but the Braided Hair slot has its permanent resident.

 

Very nice project!

 

That is a fabulous project. I would do it, as I have most of the coins already. However, mine are almost all MS, and I really don’t want to crack them out. I can’t do a registry type set either, as approximately half of my slabbed coins are PCGS, and half are NGC, with a few NGC coins thrown in. So, I guess I will just have to keep my own personal type coin set—I have posted my new additions quite a few times. @RonSanderson, that is an amazing accomplishment, and you should be proud of your efforts. A nice clean Dansco 7070 is an incredible achievement.

 

NGC brought back the option to include PCGS coins. So you could set up a registry type set at NGC.