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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 2188250, member: 15062&quot;]You are absolutely correct Sir.</p><p><br /></p><p>GDJSMP</p><p>All along I&#039;ve said that my opinion of what is, and what isn&#039;t a Type is my own opinion.&nbsp; I don&#039;t really care if you agree or not, I will happily continue doing what I&#039;m doing now.&nbsp; My main point has been the disparity of designating some series&#039; changes as different types, while identical changes in other series only warrants a designation of variety.&nbsp; Or in a single series one change becomes a type change while another change doesn&#039;t.&nbsp; You haven&#039;t addressed that, and referring to a dictionary for a definition is a cop-out.&nbsp; While I developed my thinking on my own, it is relevant to see that the Wikipedia entry addresses the same issue with the same conclusion:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>Due to various reasons (including prohibitive cost), collectors will sometimes group several different coins together as one &quot;type.&quot; For example, one could collect a Liberty Seated dime, quarter, and half dollar, and call that their example of a Liberty Seated coin for each denomination. Or, they could choose to collect an example of sub-types within the Liberty Seated design, including the with and without arrows at date, and with and without mottos.</p><p><br /></p><p>Additionally, delineating sub-types within a particular design is not always consistent. For example, almost all type collectors consider the 1909 &quot;V.D.B.&quot; Lincoln cent to be different from the 1909 no-&quot;V.D.B.&quot; Lincoln cent (where the designer&#039;s initials, V.D.B., were displayed on the bottom of the reverse and removed about a month later). However, the &quot;V.D.B.&quot; initials were returned to the Lincoln cent in 1918 on the bottom of the bust on the obverse, and almost no type collector considers this a separate type. Likewise in the Lincoln cent series, the composition change in 1943 to steel and the composition change in 1982 from bronze to copper-plated zinc are considered separate types by almost all, but the brass composition used in 1944-1946 is not considered a separate type from the 1947 return to bronze. (The Lincoln cent series is full of other examples, including modifications to the size of Lincoln&#039;s bust during the early 1970s).</p><p><br /></p><p>Consequently, each collector will need to decide for themselves how specific they wish to be when putting together a U.S. coin type set, though the decision is often made for them if they choose specific albums, such as the very popular Dansco 7070.</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>So, if your type set contains one Seated Liberty Quarter while mine contains seven, that&#039;s OK with me.&nbsp; If your Small Cent type set has three or four while mine has nineteen, so be it.&nbsp; You can enjoy yours and I can enjoy mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dictionary definitions change frequently over time and, in any case aren&#039;t always applicable to every situation.&nbsp; Accept change.</p><p><a href="http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/thesaurus-category/american/words-used-to-describe-someone-who-is-stubborn-and-narrow-minded" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/thesaurus-category/american/words-used-to-describe-someone-who-is-stubborn-and-narrow-minded" rel="nofollow">http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/thesaurus-category/american/words-used-to-describe-someone-who-is-stubborn-and-narrow-minded</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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