in yesterday's mail, I received the last 4 coins I needed for my JFK halves set (specifically, circulation copper-nickel) nothing like the look of full Whitman folders. Most of what I have here is lightly circulated, some AU/BU. I got the 1987P for $5, and got the 1987D in trade for a 40% half (about $5 melt value). The 1978's were taken out of a mint set. The others were either found in circulation or bought for around face+postage. The 1987P and 3 others were from another CT member; a different CT member had provided me with the 2008-2011 coins. (the 1987D trade was with someone on another forum) my other JFK's: silver except for 1970D, and several extras of each 1990 base metal proof 2 2005 silver proofs (1 in original packaging, 1 in 2x2) another 2000 P & D, sorted with other 2000 coins rather than other JFK's gold-plated Bicentennial (cool circulation find)
Nicely done. Congratulation on completing the set! Now it is time for you to think about what is next. Enjoy. TC
Congrats, a very cool set that can still be had for close to face if you are patient. I ended up going with the proofs and silver proofs as well, they were a little more pricey, but I started before silver had its big runup a year ago, and when you get all the business strikes, the SMS coins and the proofs/silver proofs lined up in a Dansco, it really looks impressive. And just think, you're already over half way there! :thumb:
hopefully I'll get around to images soon. I had some silver before the runup (including at least 1 of each JFK date/mintmark), but I bought a lot during the runup, including the 2 2005 silver proof sets and many extra 1964-1969's. yeah, I was lucky to come across various people that had the 1987's and the post-2002's.
some near-complete sets missing a few recent Jefferson nickels which likely could be found if I got back into roll-searching. As with the JFKs, I found most of them myself and bought the rest (war nickel silver lot, and circulated examples of the key nickel-copper dates for a few bucks each) my copper-nickel FDR dime set is complete except for the low-mintage 2009's. would like to find 1973 (P and D) Eisenhower dollars : mint-set-only, like the 1987 JFK's. would also like Type I Bicentennials have all state quarters from Philadelphia and 46 from Denver (missing Arizona, Idaho, Minnesota and Iowa) Lincoln cents: missing lots of Wheats, but have all Memorials except for 1982's (been meaning to buy a scale sensitive enough to sort 1982's)
as for Kennedy's, interested in a 1970D and more silver proof sets (edit: when I have the $ to focus on collection expansion)
the scans of the Kennedy Whitmans http://www.mediafire.com/?d8bnqtuar9rkf - individual images and archives http://www.mediafire.com/?xne0wf0n9ygz676 (JPG's in ZIP) http://www.mediafire.com/?2iacz80w22qgdxs (PNG's in ZIP)
