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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fiddlehead, post: 2409706, member: 31286&quot;]Sentiment appreciated.&nbsp; Unfortunately, for a set collector there are not anywhere near thousands and thousands of choices of first year of issue, 1840 dollars. They were only minted in Philly, had a reasonably small original mintage (about 61,000). In fact, their might be 2,000 existing, of which it&#039;s quite likely that 90% are much worse, heavily cleaned, much lower grade, etc.&nbsp; The next 5% or so are extremely expensive.&nbsp; Finding decent coins from 1840 isn&#039;t like collecting Morgans and I&#039;m not in the 12,000 to 20,000 dollar market for this coin - which is what uncirculated coins go for.&nbsp; A high grade AU might bring mid 2 thousands.&nbsp; A decent XF45 about a grand.&nbsp; I wish you were right, but not in my price range.&nbsp; This 45 is one of the best I&#039;ve seen so far.&nbsp; Many are really a mess.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess this is the obscure set collector&#039;s dilemma - as opposed to type collecting or set collecting where there are thousands to choose from.</p><p><br /></p><p>I checked the CAC status on this issue.&nbsp; 7 1840 $1 with CAC - 25 finer.&nbsp; That&#039;s not many.&nbsp; CAC status is a pretty good indicator of the availability of high quality coins - not absolute, but a good indicator.&nbsp; And not all CAC stickered coins are &quot;nice&quot;.&nbsp; So I guess that narrows it even further.&nbsp; Thousands? I wish!</p><p><br /></p><p>But thanks, all of you who have been answering.&nbsp; I&#039;m not so experienced with silver - great help all around![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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