Milestone #1. I completed a Morgan dollar date set. All are uncirculated. All are PCGS certified. It took me forty-one years to do this. Milestone #2. I completed a Morgan dollar B1 reverse set. All are uncirculated. All are PCGS certified. It only took six years and one of the coins was found by someone else. Milestone #3. I completed the VAM 41 grouping. The progression of VAM 41 is very interesting. This is a 7/8 tailfeather coin that started with 7/7 tailfeathers and due to clashing episodes and then sunsequent polishing made for 7/4 tailfeathers including one that was polished and spectaculary clashed.This includes: VAM 41, VAM 41A, VAM 41B and VAM 41C. All are uncirculated, all are PCGS certified. This took five years to complete. I didn't set out to finish them all this year, it just worked out that way.
I would love to see pictures myself, as a fellow Morgan collector. Do you have the collection up on The PCGS registry?
On the surface you are either independantly wealthy - congrats ! Not easy to do in 41 years or possibly one of those Wall Street execs using his stimulus bonus on coins. Either way, I guess the collapse of the US economy actually paid off for some. It's conforting to know that some are recession proof. Well done !!!!! You are to be honored by the masses for sure. We are all humbled.
Amazing! Don't sell them! Not after this long waiting to see them all together. I'd love to see a whole collection together like that. CongraTulations indeed!
I'd love to hear any stories you might have of what it was like to collect Morgans 41 years ago (longer than I've been alive) and what sort of bargains were to be had back then.. and in the years since
Lots of questions... First off. i am a nobody of consequence. I am not rich, far from it. I am a regular person. I have collected Morgans since I was twelve. I decided that I would collect only uncirculated Morgans and I learned very early how to grade coins. In fact, for those of you who collect, you really need to be able to grade a coin accurately. I participate in the PCGS registry Morgan dollar super set. Several of the coins have photographs. The VAM 41C is in the coin album. I think what you see with me is more a body of work over a long period of time. Collecting coins that you love is not a race.
My first Morgan dollar I collected in May 1970 was a 1878-CC. It was in gem condition. I paid fifteen dollars for it. Four years ago I sent it to NGC for grading and it came back MS 64 (near gem). A couple of years llater, I sent it to PCGS for crossover. It came back MS 64. For you vammers...it is a VAM 9 CC tilted right. The coin is blast white. To your unspoken question, was it better to buy back then? No. Everything was raw and becuase of that, there were obviously over graded, overhyped coins. Lots of coins were cleaned, whizzed, and by todays standards with most third party grading companies, coins that would not holder. That doesn't mean it is better today. Clearly, you see the same issues. At least with the four major third party grading companies, the coins are genuine and fairly accurately graded for the most part. I chose PCGS as it is the most market acceptable.
Conrats! I just checked out your registry set, that looks like a hard one to finish. Allot of varietys that's for sure!
By this do you mean actually a one coin per date set or a full date and mintmark set? Either way it's an accomplishment to be proud of, but just curious for my own sake. Guy~
To answer your question. It is a 28 coin date set. A year date covering 1878-1904 plus 1921. A coin from every year uncirculated. I participate in the PCGS registry under ozland. Go to the Morgan dollar date set. I rank in the mid thirties. Some of these coins were just hard to find. Most were purchased raw, by that they were not holdered by a third party grading company.
Thats quite a feat. I'm a Morgan man myself but haven't completed any sets or subsets in the series yet. Someday Guy~
