Which coin do you pick to represent each type in your Type Set?

okay, when it comes to standard issues prior to 1900, I'd say grade (all the type coins after 1950 are proofs), but with old commemoratives and 18th and 19th century coins it has to be price. I'm almost rich, but getting everything in MS-65 would break me. Especially when it comes to pre-1840 stuff.

 

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I'm in the grade + eye appeal category. I'm putting together a graded Dansco 7070. For those coins that I don't necessarily like the design, I'll lean towards a beautiful AU 55-58. If I really like the design, I'm going to buy the highest grade within my budget that has exceptional eye appeal.

 

Me too your preachin to the choir here!!

 

I'm with the eye appeal, original as possible, minimum of contact marks as the most important factors crowd. My choice is other.

 

As one person put it, I should change my avatar to Peacedude, with my recent forray into the Peace Dollar venue (although this is nothing new to me, as I have always collected Peace Dollars). The one thing I will say about looking for type, or partial set, or even full set coins is that grade is obviously important. The desired grade is determined by budget. However, in getting these Peace Dollars (I won't go for the entire series, as I have owned the entire series before and sold it years ago), eye appeal is huge. In getting the two key dates, I was originally going to get very nice MS 61-62 coins for 1921 and 1928. However, try finding an extremely nice coin of those dates in that condition--all the ones I checked out were not that attractive. I ended up with both in AU-58 ( if you looked at the two, you'd swear they were MS 63) and am extremely happy with the AU 58 eye appeal. They are gorgeous coins, and I didn't spend a ton of money for a coin that wasn't attractive. For the common dates, I have chosen to go for ones with light tone in MS 65 or 65+, as that is a great value over MS 66 coins, and frequently has more eye appeal for the dollar.

 

I've been doing the same with liberty gold often the au is far more appealing then an ms especially as they tend to be baggy and the earlier ones go up fast once they reach ms as most circulated. Also been buying a bunch of high au seated liberty toners as they have amazing eye appeal for the money

 

I wish I could collect the coins I really love in au to ms but those are the flowing hair and draped bust and I'd need a few more zeros in my bank account so I'll settle for f-vf

 

Actually I had not put much thought into this poll question, but I have learned a lot from your responses - thanks!

It seems price determines which grade is attainable to a large extent. Price also influences which date and mm are attainable (rarity, etc.). That's why I picked price as the biggest factor. Once you've narrowed the field down to what is attainable, then appearance is the final factor.

 

All of them. For my 20th century type sets all of the coins are in MS, then it is all about eye appeal and then date/mint. Some of the types such as Lincoln cents, Indian head and Jefferson nickels I have a mix of earlier dates and later dates at the moment. In the future the more common coins will be replaced by better dates. For my Liberty Seated type set the minimum grade is AU-50 and includes a mix of common and scarcer dates the different varieties. Strike and eye appeal are also important factors.

 

that's just about how I do it. I'll leave a hole empty 'till I can get a nice example. doesn't have to be (can't afford) MS in the older series but nice enough to show the design.