Just another twist in this great hobby!

The last piece of the puzzle finally arrived in the mail this week. It was the last coin I needed to complete my 21st Century Type Set! I now have a 100 percent complete type set. While this is a nice personal accomplishment, it certainly doesn't stack up to completing a 20th Century, a 19th Century or a Master Type Set. This is only the fifth complete registry set I have managed to put together. Completing registry sets on a tight budget is no easy task. (Two of the sets have a number 1 rating. Please don't be impressed, one set is the 2009 Proof Quarters and the other is the Proof Set of Westward Journey Jefferson Nickels.)

Anyway, the last coin I needed was a silver proof of the National Parks Quarters. I found a 2013S White Mountains PF70UC that I considered reasonably priced and that I could afford. Now here is the real twist in the story. I originally populated the set with all PF70UC coins. Every single coin in the set had a perfect rating. A set like that just doesn't get any better right? Wrong! This is one case where perfect is not good enough. For that matter perfect isn't even close.

One the day the quarter arrived I was genuinely excited. Let's face it, completing a registry set in this hobby just doesn't happen every day. I showed the coin to my wife who is from New Hampshire. She thought is was very nice and then proceeded to searching through an old recipe book for a new type of bread to make. Not to be deterred, I sat down to enter the coin into my set. I hadn't put pictures in the registry with most of the coins in the set yet so I expected I would have to do a little work to get another number 1 rated set. So once the slot was filled I checked the rankings and , BAMM!, I found out I wasn't even close to the top. Then it hit me! While all of my coins were perfect PF70UC, I had neglected to take into account the higher point ratings for some the MS coins in the set. Well, after having a good chuckle at myself and realizing perfect wasn't good enough, I did a little juggling of coins in the set and managed to get up to a 17 rank. Oh, I don't think a number 1 ranking for my set is anywhere in the near future. It seems that this PF70UC type set has less than one-half the point total of the top ranked set.

You know, I'm not upset at all. I have a very nice looking type set and I had a good little chuckle at myself for being caught unawares. You just got to love this hobby!

I sure hope you all have a great day and remember keep smiling!

Dennis