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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 3199978, member: 15588&quot;]I&#039;m pretty confident that I&#039;m <i>not</i> the first person to do this, but I have been reading up on the US presidents for a while now and the thought occurred to me that I should try to get a coin from each presidency. It helps bring out the historical dimension of coins for me and allows me the chance to hold something from the era that I&#039;m currently reading about.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had to impose some rules to make it more interesting. First, I will get one coin from each administration and I won&#039;t count overlaps between presidents. For instance, there are 2 times that a &quot;year of 3 presidents&quot; occurred: 1841 and 1881. Those 2 years saw an outgoing president, the death of the incoming president and the vice president assuming the presidency. 1841 included Van Buren, Henry Harrison and Tyler. 1881 included Hayes, Garfield and Arthur. For this collection, I&#039;m not allowing an 1881 to count for all three presidents. So 1841 and 1881 become &quot;key dates&quot; of a sort because I have to have those dates to complete the set. I&#039;m also trying to get as high grade examples as possible. I&#039;m allowing some major flexibility on the earliest dates, of course, to keep costs down.</p><p><br /></p><p>As of last tally I have coins from 23 of 45 presidencies that I consider acceptable given their date, cost and condition. I&#039;m curious if this presidential type set will also produce a general US type set. We&#039;ll see. Many combinations and variations exist for completing this set, so everyone could have their own twist on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some examples so far:</p><p><br /></p><p>Washington 1789 - 1797</p><p><img src="http://www.getmilked.com/pics/1794Obv.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.getmilked.com/pics/1794Rev.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>None yet for Adams</p><p><br /></p><p>Jefferson 1801 - 1809</p><p><img src="http://www.getmilked.com/pics/1806HalfCentObv.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.getmilked.com/pics/1806HalfCentRev.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>None yet for Madison</p><p><br /></p><p>Monroe 1817 - 1825 (very bad white balancing on this photo)</p><p><img src="http://www.getmilked.com/pics/1819LargeCent.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Quincy Adams 1825 - 1829</p><p><img src="http://www.getmilked.com/pics/1828HalfCentObverse.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.getmilked.com/pics/1828HalfCentReverse.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Jackson 1829 - 1837</p><p><img src="http://www.getmilked.com/pics/1830HalfObverse.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.getmilked.com/pics/1830HalfReverse.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Skip a few more here...</p><p><br /></p><p>Fillmore 1850 - 1853</p><p><img src="http://www.getmilked.com/pics/1851HalfCentObverse.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.getmilked.com/pics/1851HalfCentReverse.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>And skip a few more...</p><p><br /></p><p>Buchanan 1857 - 1861</p><p><img src="http://www.getmilked.com/pics/1858HalfObv.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.getmilked.com/pics/1858HalfRev.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Lincoln 1861 - 1865</p><p><img src="http://www.getmilked.com/pics/1865TwoCentObverse.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.getmilked.com/pics/1865TwoCentReverse.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>And so on. I&#039;ll stop here.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sure others already have multiple examples from each presidency in their vast collections. Regardless, this is another variation on a type set that I&#039;m finding an interesting challenge. To make it even more interesting, I&#039;m also going to try not to duplicate types across the set, but I&#039;m sure that will be the first rule that I break.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also just ordered an 1881-S Morgan Dollar to fill one of those &quot;key&quot; date slots.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I guess we&#039;ll see...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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