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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fiddlehead, post: 4625258, member: 31286&quot;]From time to time I&#039;ve seen folks post some wonderful pics of their collections in a display format of one sort or another.&nbsp; I would love to see some and hear about how you got into your particular corner of the coin collecting world. Me, I decided to focus on an 1840 Mint set some years ago because it involves an interesting but limited number of issues, has a lot of first year of issue coins and can be &quot;completed&quot; with decent coins without needing to be a gazzillionaire.&nbsp; I kind of stumbled into it from an interest in first year of issue coins and when I purchased a nice 1840CC CAC certified half eagle I was on my way.&nbsp; Right now there are 16 coins in the collection and it been the lead collection the NGC registry for 1840 for a number of years.&nbsp; Probably because&nbsp; early on I got the Eagle and the half eagles from all four mints and that brought a lot of registry points. I got interested in the silver coinage more recently - that has been a lot of fun.&nbsp; My latest acquisition is the no drapery dime.&nbsp; I am hesitant to step into the miriad of dimes and half dimes but if I can get a lowball Dahlonega quarter eagle someday I might look for one nice half dime to match it!&nbsp;&nbsp; Here it is - eight gold coins and eight silver.&nbsp; A bid advantage to 1840 is that there is no New Orleans Eagle (1841 is the first year for that- and expensive). There is one VF35 (the 1840C quarter eagle) the rest are 45 to 55.&nbsp; About half have CAC status.[ATTACH=full]1144799[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]1144799[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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