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.