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Message:: [QUOTE="900fine, post: 1033568, member: 6036"]I think it's a fun question to ask. No, I don't think it can be done. It's not a matter of financial resources; it's a matter of availability. When coins get down in the "population 1 or 2" range, they tend to be "tightly held". IOW, it's gonna stay put for a l-o-n-g time. "But if Eliasberg could do it, why can't it happen again ?" one might ask. It won't happen because times have changed. The US series is the hottest, most sought-after set of coins in the world*. There are far, far more collectors in the game than in Eliasberg's heyday, which means his set of unique or semi-unique coins have been dispersed into the hands of many different collectors. It's unlikely that large group of collectors will ever loosen up all of 'em in a narrow enough time window for a single collector to accumulate 'em all. Moreover, some extremely rare US coins are in the hands of museums, and they really hold 'em a long time. That's why Dan Holmes was one coin short of a totally complete set of all die varieties of Early Date large cents... the unique 1793 Wreath NC-5 is in the ANS collection, and Dan couldn't get 'em to loosen up on it for any amount of money. Dan's collections had many unique die varieties; now that they are dispersed, it's highly unlikely they will ever be funneled back into one place. Similar logic holds for Eliasberg's unique or semi-unique coins. * I know that will set off some hatin', but it's true. So no hatin'.[/QUOTE]

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