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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 2430704, member: 31533&quot;]<font size="6">UPDATE and SPOILERS!!!!!!!!</font></p><p><br /></p><p>I have decided that since there are only a few more days, and the days are primarily a holiday weekend (memorial day weekend) that I will identify the collection and that those who are interested in putting together the virtual collection for my enjoyment (and possibly to win the prize) have a little time to do so. Anyone participating prior to now will get &#039;extra bonus type points&#039; for being participants in the guessing portion.</p><p><br /></p><p>The virtual collection is a Silver Dollar TYPE set for silver dollars minted in the US between 1792 (when minting started) and 1918 when the Pittman act went into effect, and (in hindsight) may have been the beginning of the end for regular silver dollars. As such, my collection should have in it one of each type:</p><p>1.&nbsp; &nbsp; Flowing Hair (1794-1795)</p><p>2.&nbsp; &nbsp; Draped Bust Small Eagle (1795-1798)</p><p>3.&nbsp; &nbsp; Draped Bust Heraldic Eagle (1798-1804)</p><p>4.&nbsp; &nbsp; Gobrecht stars on reverse, plain edge (1836)</p><p>5.&nbsp; &nbsp; Gobrecht stars on obverse, reeded edge (1838-1839)</p><p>6.&nbsp; &nbsp; Liberty Seated 1840-1865</p><p>7.&nbsp; &nbsp; Liberty Seated 1866-1873[note; if you use the Liberty Seated in 1873 it must be distinguished from the Trade dollar also minted that year. these coins have different reverses]</p><p>8.&nbsp;&nbsp; Trade (also a Liberty Seated, but from 1873-1885)</p><p>9.&nbsp;&nbsp; Morgan (minted 1878-1921, but only have one that is from 1878-1904 so that entire collection is for dollars before the Pittman Act because the silver purchased for minting of silver dollars by the Sherman Act was to be used post July 1898 only to mint silver dollars and no other coins, that silver ran out in 1904)</p><p>10. Lafayette Dollar 1900 (the only dollar commemorative, was minted on Dec 14, 1899 as part of a drive to raise money for US participation in the World Fair in Paris in 1900. Silver could not be used from the Sherman Act for this, so Silver was purchased specifically for this. This coin was designed by Chief Engraver Charles E Barber, and it ended up being the first Silver Dollar commmemorative and also the only US commemorative silver dollar before 1983 (and of course the only SILVER DOLLAR in the &#039;Classic Commemorative&#039; years (1892-1954).&nbsp; Athough this was sold for a $2 issue price initially, (less than 50,000 ones minted and for sale were sold [26 were also minted for assay purposes, etc]: 14,000 ended up finally being melted) not very many were actually sold to collectors and sales continued for a some years. By 1903, the price for sale of these had lowered to 1.10, and it is estimated that many of these eventually entered circulation during hard times, so they were used and usable in circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>This I think would be a very interesting virtual collection to have, and it also presents issue in presentation in finding and displaying coins for each type that would work well with each other and a way to display them that allows the historical perspective and the story of the silver dollars prior to the great melt in the US.! So choose your virtual coins well, and if you can tell the story as well in a fascinating way, all the better![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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