What "Sets" have you completed?

Ah, a brown Ike. I need to upgrade the '71 blue Ike because of a nasty fingerprint (not exactly sure how that got on the coin since it was in mint cello). Cool!

 

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Peace Dollar date and circulation set and gold Indian $2.50 date set.

Although I have all the coins I need for these sets, I don’t ever think of them as complete.

 

I'll see if I can't find some pics since Photobucket has choked.

 

A set of Charlotte $5/Half Eagles 1838-1861; and Indian $2 1/2 Quarter Eagles (1908-1929). I've since sold the entire QE set, and several pieces of the Charlotte set, the latter of which I'm slowly rebuilding again.

 

And if subsets qualify, a set of 1798-1807 Bust Right/Heraldic Eagle $5/Half Eagles. Also almost have the 1807-1812 Bust Left/Capped Bust $5/Half Eagle set completed, sans the 1807. Anybody have a nice, original one to offer?

 

I've been collecting coins for close to 50 years, and the number of sets I've completed in that time is . . . zero.

The only set I ever attempted was the Whitman Lincoln cent folder when I was around 7 years old. Somewhere along the way, I decided that having a whole bunch of what was essentially the same coin bored me. So I said, "No more sets" and never looked back.

 

No two of us need have exactly the same flavor of OCD.

 

Must...fill...all...holes!

 

Yes...disturbing on so many levels!

 

Never completed a single set. Slowly working on trade dollars from 1873-83 with proofs and a us type set. But when I need money I sell stuff

 

Silver war nickel set. Many years ago. Still raw.

Cal

 

Sometimes you can cheat the set depending on your album. Some albums dont have holes for rare and costly varieties like the 22 plain, 1856 FE,1869/9, micro S, and so on. Makes filling the set slightly more acheivable.

That being said, I still have no complete sets other than Lincoln memorials. But I have about five sets missing only the key dates.

 

My only completed set is the Presidential Dollars in PF-69. Never going to be worth anything, but I enjoy having them and will someday be able to burden the next generation with them...

 

Indian cents, Lincoln cents, Buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes, and Kennedy half dollars.