I've been collecting these but had never realized that it's really a type set. The set is Small-Size US $1 Notes, 1928-1957B. This covers the one Legal Tender (Red Seal) note and all of the Silver Certificates (Blue Seal) notes. It includes: -- regular notes -- star notes -- all series -- major varieties. It's really sort of a date set. Mules may be considered later if I can figure out if they even exist. By my current definition a full set will have 70 notes. I've got 63. I can see myself affording 2 more IF I accept low grades (VG or lower). That means there will always be 5 spots left empty.
Yeh, I saw a reference to that mule. Most of the notes I mentioned as being beyond my budget are star notes. But then there are the "Late Finish" notes too. Maybe I might be able to cherrypick one. How many people even know about them?
I do a lot of collecting of all the varieties, etc, as well, but have used "type set" to refer to a collection of one note for each issue/design/denomination, the "regular note" you mention. I may be wrong, and the coin world doesn't provide another term that I know of other than "date set" which doesn't seem to apply. But I'd love to have a term for "a collection of every nit-picky detail of a note"!
