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Message:: [QUOTE="kanga, post: 1176589, member: 9270"]A 2-cent collection is nice.I liked it because it is short meaning that you won't spend the rest of your life trying to complete it.(I'll never try an SL set; too many coins.)And there are no "killer" coins although the 1864/Small Motto and the 1872 are a bit pricy in MS-63.(A SLQ set has that nasty 1916 which is a stopper for most people.) With my 2-cent set I didn't shoot for MS across the board.I just wanted good looking coins. (I define "good looking" as XF or better.)But I get at least one MS-65 in all of my sets, just to show what the Mint had in mind.And that's how my set ended up.The two keys are both XF-40.Three of the common dates are MS (two MS-65BN; one MS-64BN). The 1865 still has a bunch of Minr red.All the others are AU-something. I have a terrible time doing this, but let's see if I can get my NGC Registry Set banner up:<a href="http://coins.www.collectors-society.com/registry/coins/MySets_Listing.aspx?PeopleSetID=89448" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.www.collectors-society.com/registry/coins/MySets_Listing.aspx?PeopleSetID=89448" rel="nofollow">http://coins.www.collectors-society.com/registry/coins/MySets_Listing.aspx?PeopleSetID=89448</a> Well, I didn't get the banner up but that link goes to my set.And there are images for all coins; click on the "eye".[/QUOTE]