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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rld14, post: 491990, member: 16133&quot;]Let&#039;s define this a bit more clearly..</p><p><br /></p><p>Are we talking Easiest as in cost?&nbsp; Or Easiest as in &quot;Money is no object&quot;?</p><p><br /></p><p>If money is no object, you&#039;ll find that these sets are a monster to put together..</p><p><br /></p><p>Business strike Trimes</p><p>Gold Dollars</p><p>Quarter Eagles, all of em</p><p>Half Eagles, ditto</p><p>Eagles, ditto</p><p>Double Eagles</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not even the money as much as availability.&nbsp; I kind of laugh when people call some &quot;key date&quot; and &quot;rare&quot; coins rare.&nbsp; Key date coins are expensive, the vast majority of them are not what I would call &quot;Rare&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>A 1916 Standing Liberty Quarter, a 1916-D Mercury Dime, oooh, Rarities!</p><p><br /></p><p>Nonsense.&nbsp; There&#039;s many of them on the market at any given time.&nbsp; You may have to be patient to find a nice one, but if you have the money and make enough noise, you&#039;ll find a nice copy of either within 60-90 days on the Quarter and a few weeks on the dime.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now go find an 1875 Eagle.&nbsp; Go ahead, find one for sale, Heritage has had seven in the past 14 years.&nbsp; Figure in the other dealers and usual suspects, and maybe 15 have come to market in total?&nbsp; Of those I would assume not more than 10 in total have been offered to the general public.</p><p><br /></p><p>So in reality unless you are in tight with some major dealers, you might have a chance to buy one once every couple of years, and it might not even be a nice one.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s a rare coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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