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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3359363, member: 112&quot;]I was never one to really collect sets of coins, I did a few times but mostly I was an eclectic collector. If a coin was of a design I liked, and I liked the specific coin itself, then I would buy it. When I was collecting US coins my specialty was original Mint and Proof Sets, and I had almost every one. And I was constantly trying, for decades, to find better examples of each. If I went to a coin show I might go through a thousand original and Mint and Proof Sets at that single show. About the only ones I did not have were the &#039;36-&#039;41 original Proof Sets. And the only reason I didn&#039;t have them was because in 40 years of searching for them I only ever found 1 set - 1 single set, a &#039;41 if memory serves - and at the time I didn&#039;t have enough money to buy it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As for sets I had a complete set of Kennedy halves in the highest grades possible because Kennedy was special to me, I knew the man, sat on his knee when I was only 6 years old. I had a complete set of ASEs, again highest grade possible, partial sets of AGEs all denoms, mainly only the better dates and highest grades. Other coins were a widely varied mix of designs I liked.</p><p><br /></p><p>With world coins, I set out to be the 1st person to ever collect a date set of Netherlands gold ducats. I quit collecting before I ever got there but I still had a better collection of them than anyone but a couple of select museums. My other world coins, as I said above, anyone who wants can go through my albums posted here, and there are many, to see a sample of what I used to have. But I specialized in world gold, particularly hammered gold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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