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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;umtrr-author, post: 296272, member: 5719&quot;]As many of you know, one of the coin interests that Thalia Elizabeth has is coins from 1900, because they are 100 years older than she is.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>She lucks out on that year; if you don&#039;t count the gold (although she wouldn&#039;t mind!!!) it&#039;s fairly easy and relatively inexpensive to pick up a year set of US Coins from 1900 (Indian Cent, Liberty Head &quot;V&quot; Nickel, Barber Dime, Quarter and Half, and Morgan Dollar).&nbsp; There are also some pretty inexpensive world coins from 1900 as well and she has some of those.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But how easy would it be for those of us not born in the year 2000 to pick up a year set that predates us by 100 years?&nbsp; I was thinking about this as I picked up a circulated Indian Cent &quot;just to have&quot; at the coin club meeting last night.&nbsp; It turns out that the Indian Cent is pretty much the <b>only</b> really inexpensive coin from that year!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Three cent silver, half dime (no nickels yet), dime, quarter, half, dollar... that&#039;s what I&#039;d need to complete the non-gold year set.&nbsp; The quarter and half are in reach in lower grades, but the others... well, not on my budget!&nbsp; (Only 11 years until Thalia starts college... and 7 until her older brother does!)</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t specify the year to which I refer, but I&#039;ll bet that most of you can figure it out.&nbsp; How about your chances of assembling a birth year set minus 100 years?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, just for giggles I punched in the year in question into eBay under &quot;US Coins&quot; and over 90 percent of the listings were for... the Indian Cent.&nbsp; How about that![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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