As time goes forward, certain collections will become impossible to amass on the registry sets, as the number of coins in each set grows, and mintages continue to dwindle.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Certain registry sets, going forward, look as though they will be increasingly impossible to build. A few I can speak to, in particular, are some of the Canadian commemorative and bullion sets.

The Maple Privy Set, for example, is one of my favorites. Every year, the Mint adds four or five new coins to this set. The mintages are always low, and purchasing top grade coins for this set (if you can even find them) is often a $200-$500 affair. My set is not yet complete, but has easily cost me close to $20k.

Even larger Canadian commemorative sets, such as the silver proof $1, $5 and $20 complete sets are enormously lengthy as to the number of different types of coins available for each set. High grade examples will cost you $200-$500. With hundreds of coins required to fill each set, you are looking at quite possibly a six-figure venture for a top set. Furthermore, the Mint quite often issues 10-15 new issues in these sets every year.

So going forward, it will be very difficult to amass full top registry collections for these set types moving forward. My hat's off to OckDay, Martens, JWillie, Dan Hughes, and Jormaka for their incredible sets in these categories.

My New Year will include filling the following sets:

- Canada $5 Bullion Issue Maples

- !!! Canada $5 Privy Mark Maples !!!

- Canada 1 Cent Circulation issue 1953-2012

- Canada 50 Cent Circulation issue 1968-2015

- Canada Silver $20 Natural Wonder Series 2003-Date

- Silver $5 Commemorative issues Complete 1998-Date

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