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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1255518, member: 66&quot;]I&#039;d liked large cents for a long time and I joined EAC in 1982.&nbsp; In 1985 I began to seriously collect the Draped bust coins because I really liked the design.&nbsp; I felt that there was no way I would be able to collect them by variety so I decided to just put together a date set.&nbsp; A few months later though a fellow collector came to me with a deal I couldn&#039;t turn down.&nbsp; He had been selling off his draped bust varieties and he had 20 pieces left that he would sell me at a great price.&nbsp; I bought them.&nbsp; Now between my partial date set, his twenty pieces and some other pieces I had, I now had close to 40 different Draped bust cent varieties and I was off on a draped bust variety set.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Over the next four years, with the addition of a set of Classic head varieties and some of the Liberty caps I reached the 150 variety level (out of 355 total or 295 S numbered varieties) needed to get my set listed on the national census.&nbsp; At this point it started getting more difficult to find new pieces.&nbsp; Over the next ten years I managed to add another 70 varieties and twenty more over the next ten years.&nbsp; Since then&nbsp; I have added fourteen more varieties and currently have 254.&nbsp; On the national census I have moved up from #50 to #13.&nbsp; I have three of the four chain cent varieties, all of the mint issued 1795 S number varieties except S-79 which I consider a pattern.&nbsp; I have all of the 96 caps.&nbsp; I lack only three of the S numbered Draped bust varieties, and I have all of the classic heads.&nbsp; I have about thirty of the 1794&#039;s and that is about the only area where I have any chance at advancing.&nbsp; Maybe a couple more 93 wreaths.</p><p><br /></p><p>Along the way I also started doing some work on the middle dates.&nbsp; My 1817, 1819, 1820, 1825 are almost complete and my 1821, 1823, and 1829 are complete.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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