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Message:: [QUOTE="mikenoodle, post: 481152, member: 307"]and THIS is the great fun of type sets!!! No one is wrong! You can shape your type set as you wish and individualize it to suit your interests. When I started back into collecting a few years ago, my goal was to put together a 20th century type set of key date coins in MS. BOY! Was I dreaming!!! What actually happened was 2 sets, one key date, and one MS. The key date set is really quite special, from a 1927-S Standing Liberty Quarter, to a 1921-D Walking Liberty Half,my zinc-coated Lincoln is a 1995 Double Die, my with-FS Jefferson is a 1997-P Botanic Garden Nickel, etc. By collecting by type, I found that I learned about each series as I collected, and because I was studying many series, I developed a really well-rounded knowledge of coins. I learned what coins are truly rare finds in MS , and how to distinguish the real original MS pieces from the "refreshed" ones. I don't know if I would have learned as much or about as many series had I collected a single series of coins, and it has been the variety of this collecting that has kept me inthralled ever since. I believe that it was that general knowledge of coins that led to my being offered a part-time job at the coin shop here in town, where it has exposed me to even more coins, and given me more to learn. All because of a 20th century type set I started years ago...[/QUOTE]