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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrweaseluv, post: 8638578, member: 40340&quot;]I forget that while some of you have followed the 20lc set from the start others have no idea about it even now (and may not care <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) but I&#039;m gonna explain the set as I think it&#039;s a good story/idea for young or new collectors to try.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;building a very respectable coin set on a small per coin budget&quot;</p><p>allowing coins of all grades as long as they were purchased in that price range. but always seeking the best for the price</p><p><br /></p><p>So It all started back in 2011 when I won an auction for a slabbed pcgs &quot;genuine&quot; 1857 large cent for 27 dollars with free shipping... even then 27 dollars (with free shipping I called it $22) was a shocking price for that coin in any condition and it got me to thinking. I saw that LCs were ignored by most collectors who concentrated in silver and gold. That and some Very nice pieces were selling every weekend for 10-25. So I decided to build the best set of LCs possible for a budget price of $20 per coin. It went well and quickly built up to some 25-26 coins.. Well at that point &quot;Life happened&quot; and all but one of those LCs sold for 650 bucks and saved my bacon (hardest coin sale I ever had to make) one of the few coins to survive the purge was that $27 1857... well around 2018 things got better (not fixed but better, still fighting with the VA... fun fun) and then 2020 &quot;happened&quot; so one day looking at that 1857 I decided to attempt the $20 LC set again setting the budget as...</p><p><br /></p><p>$20 Average coin cost with a price ceiling of $25 for any single coin</p><p>(recently raised to 29.99 max for any single coin as long as the average price remained below 20)</p><p><br /></p><p>with a current average coin price of $17.57 and the highest price paid for any single coin Under 30 bucks (20ish <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p>(i did so not pay extra for that walking lib half to get the LC price under 25 so there <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> )</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway In now almost 3 Years since the re/start of the 2020 $20 LC set this is where the set stands now and the coin that started it all... (link to gallery is under pics and will be updated again soon (5-6 coins missing cause I been lazy)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1517108[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1517109[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/media/albums/the-2020-20-large-cent-set.1855/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/media/albums/the-2020-20-large-cent-set.1855/">https://www.cointalk.com/media/albums/the-2020-20-large-cent-set.1855/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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