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Message:: [QUOTE="gronnh20, post: 2968378, member: 73224"]A date set would probably be more doable.  A date and mintmark set will be quite expensive.  I was just looking at putting a set of Morgan dollars together.  After crunching numbers for date and mintmark coins, that was just not going to happen.  I crunched numbers for one coin for each date.  That set consists of 28 coins.  This set will get you at least one coin from every mint except Carson City.  One date can have a CC substituted in.  1882-CC, 1883-CC, and 1884-CC are the best candidates. I crunched the numbers using the latest CoinWorld edition.  CoinWorld seems to be in the middle with retail pricing.  Of course all pricing is subjective.*  I used MS-63 as a criteria.  All coins had to be in MS-63 TPG plastic.  Matching set. Here is what I came up with.  For ~$2300(retail) I could buy 25 of the 28 coins(graded)needed for the set.  This included at least one coin from each mint.  The 3 dates that are expensive are 1893, 1894, and of course 1895.  If you spent another $2000 on those three coins you could pick up the 1893 or 1894 in MS63 and buy the other two in AU and EF.  That would get you 26 of the 28 in MS-63 under $4500.  Of course professional bargaining skills will make the set a little less.[/QUOTE]