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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 3335218, member: 44357&quot;]- In the PCGS set registry, a US typeset is 137 coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>- &quot;Every basic classic U.S. coin in Circulation Strike from 1792 through 1964, every date and every Mintmark&quot; requires 2821 coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>- Add in major varieties and it is 3260 coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>- For the overachievers, add in proof, every major variety, every date and it requires 6269 coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;Red Book&quot; has some additional coins (colonials, moderns, etc), bringing that to roughly 8000 or so (although I&#039;ve seen some higher estimates for how many coins are in the book).</p><p><br /></p><p>A high level taxonomy of ancients is in the process of being built by a couple different organizations. Their level of granularity is roughly by denomination + ruler and, as an example, lumps any Brutus denarius together with the Eid Mar, let alone trying to pull apart die varieties and styles. That database is around 8,000 major types.</p><p><br /></p><p>Going down to the same level of detail as US would bring the count at least into the hundreds of thousands if not millions.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a couple high end collectors focusing on Greek coinage right now trying to get as many of the major varieties as possible. They&#039;re expecting to need somewhere around 80,000 coins to complete the set but, while the volume of purchases would decrease over time as the major types are crossed off, it would take many, many lifetimes to try to own one of everything (and it still wouldn&#039;t be possible).</p><p><br /></p><p>Happily, this means we can all collect whichever way we choose as not even the goddess Moneta could own them all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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