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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 3703247, member: 1765&quot;]I like the concept of thinking outside the box when deciding what and how to collect.&nbsp; Among the &quot;sets&quot; I&#039;m working on is one with coins dated with prime numbers.&nbsp; Birth year sets are quite popular, and you can put as much time and money into them as you want.&nbsp; I know someone who collects nothing but coins dated 1950 by die variety, and in top grades, and it&#039;s a big money set.&nbsp; Another type of set that I&#039;ve seen people assemble is a &quot;birth-100 year.&quot;&nbsp; For your son born in 2005, if he has the collecting gene and he becomes interested, that can be as easy or hard as he&#039;d want, ranging from 5 circulated coins costing a total of maybe $30 to including all 3 mints of the silver coinage, 4 gold denominations (2 mints each), and a few from the Philippines (a US territory then), totaling ... a lot more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, looking at your dates, you&#039;re going to be disappointed by 1975.&nbsp; While the quarter, half, and a silver dollar were made that year, they were dated 1976 for the bicentennial, leaving the cent, nickel, and dime the only 1975-dated US coins.&nbsp; All 3 mints made coins, so a complete set for that year would be 9 coins.&nbsp; 1973 has cent through dollar (6 denominations) from all mints, and the silver dollar was made both copper-nickel and 40% silver, so there are a lot more coins here.&nbsp; You could simply buy uncirculated mint and proof sets for coins back to 1973.&nbsp; There are mint sets for 1949, too, but they can get expensive, and you might like assembling such a set rather than buying it all at once.&nbsp; Both my parents were born in 1941, so I felt compelled to put together a 1941 proof set.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the world coins of your ancestors, you&#039;d be surprised that they may be more available and affordable than US coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you put together a set to fill in a family tree, there&#039;s a lot of software available (some free) that might help you put together a poster or web site with pictures of the coins as well as your ancestors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since you say you&#039;re in a major metropolitan area in Minnesota, I&#039;ll assume that means you&#039;re in the Twin Cities somewhere.&nbsp; If so, I&#039;d recommend paying a visit to <a href="https://www.coinexpert.info/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinexpert.info/" rel="nofollow">Gary Adkins</a>.&nbsp; He&#039;s one of the good guys in the business and will not steer you wrong with regard to books to buy or coins that are or aren&#039;t for you.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope this thread isn&#039;t overwhelming you with possibilities or making you think we&#039;re just interested in making you spend all your money and time on this.&nbsp; Feel free to ask for recommendations for coins of specific years and countries.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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