If you had $150,000.00 for a coin collection, would you spend $130,000.00 on this registry set of Morgans? http://www.ebay.com/itm/PCGS-REGIST...930&pid=100013&prg=1004&rk=3&sd=140902292113&
No, personally, I am a micro-manager of sorts, and would therefore rather spend the $150K on building my own set (with the 89-CC) and picking the right examples I would find fit to be part of a quality registry set (not to say the seller's collection is sub-par).
Is this seller including a premium for the time and effort it would take to put a set like this together from scratch?
I wonder: are these registry sets (collections) essentially intended for fund managers and other (quasi- or ) professional or institutional investors?
No mainly its my pocket book is bigger than yours attitude. I run the registry but its more for tracking purposes. There is only 2 of 23 sets that I have a shot at top 5 but that will be along time away
Most of the top-rated sets are for snobs who have to "one-up" everybody. They don't care about the hobby and they don't bother sharing photos of their award winning sets. If someone comes along and knocks them off the top of the heap, they will spend whatever necessary to regain their position, and if they can't, they just sell the set. Chris Note: The previous statement in no way reflects the opinion of Coin Talk or any of it's employees.
Would you spend the money or would you purchase other coins? I mean here it is, a registry set all ready made with bragging rights.
What is interesting in my little world of collecting Morgan DMPL's, I know about 8 of the top 12 registry holders, all good guys, low ego and help each other. It is not the same in other registry sets. Back to the OP, no would not buy it.
The #43 set is hardly a bragging set. The registry set is meaningless, the only bragging right is a complete set of morgans.
I am not a fan of morgans, I find them boring like wheatbacks, so no I wouldnt spend that much on a set.
Interesting, the one thing that has united (all participating) CT members is not to buy that Morgan registry set
LOL I want to trade in my Wheaties for Kansas farmland. Where can I do this? Another dumb question: What is a Whitman Set of Wheaties -1 worth?
I'm not really interested in date/mint collecting, so I would just spend $2000-4000 on a nice proof, and allocate the rest of the money to other types.