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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 24550564, member: 101855"]Most type set collectors look to fill the slots with highest grade pieces they can afford. When you go for something like the recut date, which has nothing to do with the type, you are adding expense to filling that slot in the collection. If you want to do that, fine. Some very wealthy type collectors have built sets with the rarest coins for the type, not the most common. That is an impressive thing to do, but it makes everything more expensive. Instead of filling the Lincoln Cent, Wheat Ears reverse with a 1958 in Mint State, you get a 1914-D in BU. That's nice, but it is wicked expensive. Even if you ignore almost all of the State, America the Beautiful and other state quarters, and have only one representative piece for each type, you are looking at a couple hundred coins or more for a type set. And in case you missed it, the next type up from Flowing Hair Half Dollar, the Draped Bust, Small Eagle type (1796-7). According to the Red Book, and example of that type in AG-3 sells for over $20,000. Here is my piece. It was last coin I needed to complete the 1792 to non modern issue type set, excluding the gold. It cost as much as a nice car. [ATTACH=full]1553651[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]