Coin Collecting dream to be accompished before death

My dream is to own a compete gem morgan set graded by PCGS every year every date. How long do you think this would take? how much money?

While were at it what is your collecting dream before you die? what set are you aiming to complete?

 

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To find the secret to immortality. I'd think that'd be great thing to complete before I die.

Collecting wise, Hopefully a run of 1C US coins from 1793-current.

 

All uncirculated? or just to have them all no matter what grade. if grade doesn't matter so long as you can read dates you wouldn't have a ton of trouble until the earlier large cents... unless you had a metal detector and found them in a stash somewhere.

 

Definitely not uncirculated, but VF could be a nice challenge, especially with the 1799 and 1804 large cents, not to mention the 1793 chain reverse...(that one will probably have to be a lower grade)

 

Own the indian head struck on gold planchet coin
Complete mercury dime set including key dates in ms65+
Gather enough silver that I can give some to everyone on this coin forum!

 

I once had the idea of assembling a 20th century type set with all of the coins being key date coins in MS grades.

Then I realized that although the 1921 Standing Liberty Quarter was a bear, and the 16-D Mercury Dime was available but super expensive, the 1921-S Walker was trouble and the 1901-S Barber Quarter was gonna be a back breaker.

then I decided that it might be cheaper to heat my house for a winter by burning dollar bills for heat... LOL

 

A complete set of Imperial Rome denarii/antonii.
A rainbow toned silver US type set.
The Ultra High Relief Saint-Gaudens.
The octagonal Panama Pacific.
Eid Mar.
Stella.
1792 half disme.
Brasher doubloon.
Silver continental currency.
Massachusetts willow/oak/pine tree set.

So, you know, nothing big.

 

To collect the 2150 coins from change.

 

You'll be getting a lot of 'likes' for that post

 

Flowing Hair Stella, Proof H1C (any from the 1840s). Or just keep aimlessly collecting, and eventually father a child and hope they pick up the hobby.

 

Aside from another First Place Heath Award just as a nod to my good work, I guess I would need a Third Place to complete the set.

Second Place bronze for "Sir Isaac Newton at the Mint" (2002) and First Place silver for "The Origins of Coinage" (1996).


Any place award for an Exhibit at an ANA convention. You get a medal and thanks just for showing up, but the competition is tough, as great work is common in this competition.

They have such a nice way of saying, "Thanks for showing up." I do not even remember what I set up. It was more important to me that I qualified as a Judge for Literature. (Judges get medals, too.)

These exhibits are really supposed to be museum-quality and I am not an artist. I am a writer. I had just started editing the MSNS Mich-Matist in April of that year. As I was setting up, I looked over at this YN whose cases consisted of two coins and 2,000 words. A writer! I explained to his mother that the MSNS pays 10 cents per word for a maximum of $100. Sam Spiegel joined MSNS as a YN and sent an article (read here). He has been doing well in numismatics. In 2011 he earned a First Place Kenneth E. Bressett Young Numismatist Literary Award for "A Numismatic Biography of Lucius Cornelius Sulla." He is now at Heritage in the Ancient Coins department.

 

A complete Condor token would be awesome...

 

Not to pour cold water over a dream - I think for a dream to be realistic, you got to have the finance available for it.

 

I'd like to have a complete set of US commemoratives to pass on to my first grandchild.

 

Collection that is.

 

@ definer you could do that but the early ones will be a big challenge.

 

Yeah, I'm finding that out...

 

I have always wanted a coin from the city from where I was born--the 1935 Hudson, NY Sesquicentennial half dollar.

 

(1) A full 7070 type set comprised of hand picked certified coins. The modens will be MS68/PR68 and up, with the rest coming in at MS63 and up.

(2) A full set of hand picked certified Saints (MS64 and up) by date (1907-1928).

Both are doable in a lifetime with diligent effort.