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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 2390260, member: 4373&quot;]Joe, I think the beauty (and challenge) of collecting coins is that you can define what you would like to collect. If someone just wants to collect just a specific denomination, that&#039;s fine. I believe there is a collector that collects ONLY dimes around the world and has an interesting type set. If someone wants to collect based on a certain theme, that&#039;s also another type set. If someone wants to collect P01 coins, that&#039;s also another type set. It reminds me of an oxymoron maths problem - would you consider a set of a set, a set? (the answer is no). Maths nerds will get what I mean. </p><p><br /></p><p>From a design perspective, the most challenging aspect is to present it in an aesthetics manner. Equally challenging is to understand coins that were struck and had went through several design changes due to various situations. US coins struck around 1850s is a prime example. Also another good example is Mexican coinage around 1980s - 1990s when there was rapid inflation. To present it by era, theme, denomination is the goal but sometimes that&#039;s just too difficult. I will be brave enough to disagree with Dansco&#039;s layout format but I&#039;ll leave it for another day. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also from a designing point of view, I personally prefer it to be machine struck. Crude struck coinage is an headache to design for typeset as each coin has to be individually measured and custom &#039;cut&#039;. However it can be done and the outcome can look quite impressive. Take for instance this Russian type set that I have done for Paul I (1797 - 1801):</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://gxseries.com/numis/digital_album/paul_i_page1_small.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://gxseries.com/numis/digital_album/paul_i_page1_small.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://gxseries.com/numis/digital_album/paul_i_page1_small.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://gxseries.com/numis/digital_album/paul_i_page2_small.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://gxseries.com/numis/digital_album/paul_i_page2_small.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://gxseries.com/numis/digital_album/paul_i_page2_small.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This can be tricky to apply for other collector&#039;s coins since these coins were not struck with collar and hence some coins can vary by a few millimeters, making this type set design a one off. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ultimately, I believe custom albums is the ultimate collector&#039;s goal. Let&#039;s put the technical challenge and business aspect aside for now. How good would it be to say that if a custom design digital prototype album could be made within a week and if there was confirmed order of at least 100+ (enough for business to make a profit) - is this not a winning solution?</p><p><br /></p><p>Now back to the Korean type set... this will be from 1888 to 1910. I could easily include South Korea but I refuse to include North Korea. (I&#039;m sure the &quot;Great&quot; leader is furious and want to start throwing tantrums and other random &#039;projectiles&#039;...)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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