May 27th, 2008

On May 27th it will have been 1 year since I started building my silver eagle set. I hope to have my set complete (up to date) by that time. There's no particular reason for it, I just think it would be neat to have it done in a year. The silver eagles aren't a hard set to collect in MS69 if you have the capital to devote to it. When it's "complete" I won't be done working on it though. I'll have to send a few coins in for review and I'll be replacing some, some might be upgraded to MS70 eventually. It just depends.

Unlike Neverman (whose passion for this set never ceases to amaze me), completing the set is very important to me. People talk about "birthyear sets" but for me the silver eagles are a "lifetime set." They started minting them the same year I was born (I'm sure I've already said this many times). This makes the completed set VERY significant to me. Each coin represents a year to me and all the things that happened in it.

I have 18 coins (See the set in my registry) with 2 more (the 1990 and 1992) on the way. I'll probably order 2 more (the 1998 and either the '95 or the '08) in about another week. The all important 1996 and 2000MS coins are still ahead of me. It's kinda funny that I could have aquired the set for much less money if I'd just bought the complete set from a dealer, but that would have been much less fun IMO. Also, It just never seemed right to just buy the complete set. I had to build it on my own or it would have never been mine. Does that make any sense?

Edited to add:

BTW, neverman, congrats on the new aquisition. As my step-father would say, "it's a good year."