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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wiggam007, post: 1763950, member: 18436&quot;]If you read the rules, I have the ability to determine whether or not a set fits within the rules of the contest <i>as well as the spirit </i>of the contest.&nbsp; I would think that it would be a rhetorical question, but a roll of single date coins would <b>not </b>be within the spirit of the contest.&nbsp; The only people who can win this are people who actually take the time and effort to try and complete the challenge, not complain about it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>While I did set some fairly restrictive rules, such as the set starting before 1938 and it containing more than 40 coins to be at what I considered a level playing field and an appropriate level of challenge, I also purposefully left the contest open to many details which would allow people to customize this to the point where they would have fun and find a set they both felt like they could collect but that would also be a challenge. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you don&#039;t feel like a you could get a key date, then don&#039;t pick a set which has one in it.&nbsp; This does, to some extent, reward creativity in deciding a set, such as the date set of Lincoln errors and varieties.&nbsp; I mean, if you like dimes, but don&#039;t want to do a complete date/mm set because of the key dates, maybe expand it to include another set or do all of the 20th century silver dimes in a date set. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I do feel that specifically excluding key dates does not fit within the challenge because the idea of this is that you end with a complete set.&nbsp; If you have a date/mm set which doesn&#039;t include key dates (except in the most extreme circumstances such as a double eagle set&#039;s 1933) it is pretty much by definition not a complete set.&nbsp; However, if the person proposing the set could argue that there is still a substantial amount of challenge to completing a set sans certain dates/mm/coins, I would consider that before deciding if it violated the spirit of the contest or not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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