my "set" is too big

It's hard to believe but I may have too many coins. My signature set called "High Seas" is a themed set with nthe only requirement being that the coin must depict a sailing ship. I currently have 148 coins in the set listing....3 coins that need to be added...and 51 coins that will be sent for slabbing/grading on November 1st.

This will enable me to reach my goal for 2008, which was to break the 200 coin mark for this collection. Unfortunately, signature sets only allow for a maximum of 150 slots. I sent an email to Collectors' Society and Amy (joiseygirl) was most helpful as always--however my options at this point are limited to starting a new set ( High Seas Continued?...or High Seas Also??) or maybe I'll only display my 150 "favorites".

The hard part with that is that I really like them all. Not that I'd sell the coins I couldn't display-but I feel that my on-line display would only be a partial collection. I'm still up in the air on my decision--I'm also waiting to see if Amy can talk someone into simply adjusting the maximum number of slots allowed in a set. ( I seem to be the first person to run into this conundrum of set size so there has never been an issue until now).

November is always a big coin month for me--I get an annual residual payment every November for some work I did years ago and I usually use most of it to get my sets/collection in order. I'm going to submit about around 60 coins ( my largest submission ever by far) and I have my eye on 1 big purchase (big for me). It may not be the greatest time with our national economic situation a bit uncertain, but then again it may be the perfect time to purchase a key-date coin. Prices for collector quality coins seem to be dropping a bit as some people are selling off due to financial hardship and others don't have available funds to bid on coins right now.

More coins on the market and less potential buyers means better deals can be found. This may be the perfect time to snag a $2000 coin for $1200 or less--we'll see.

Here's the latest piece for my Mercury dime short set. I prefer a blast white/lustrous/flowlines dime...this one just jumped out at me however with her beautiful amber rim toning...1942-D MS67FB...