A new competitive registry set up for the Royal Mint's Music Legends Series (4th band/musician) that honors The Who (2021) 1 1

[Soulreader420]

On December 3, 1979, I attended The Who concert at Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati Ohio. While waiting outside on the pavilion of the coliseum prior to the start of the concert at 8:05pm, I was caught up in a crowd stampede or push coming from behind me that carried me forward for about 10-15 feet before I realized what was happening, and by then, I was already falling or being pushed down, with my legs stuck behind me, and my arms pinned at my sides by the tightly packed crowd around me. The natural reaction everyone has to put their arms out if front of themself when falling down to protect their head/face from hitting the ground was impossible for me to do. In truth, I just closed my eyes to accept my fate, because there wasn't anything I could do to prevent whatever was about to happen. Only recently did I remember thinking to myself "Well, I guess this is how I will die!" (it's funny how the brain will temporarily "erase" some important details in a traumatic situation). With my eyes still closed and fully expecting to feel the pain of being "trampled under-foot" in the next moments of my life, now instead it felt like a different force was coming at me from the opposite direction (towards me), and it felt like the force was helping to push me back up. As I opened my eyes and they focused to confirm this, I silently begged this new "force" to continue, because my body was almost upright and able to stand on my feet again. Thankfully it did, and my first thought was being so thankful just for being alive and uninjured. The stampede was over and had stopped as quickly as it had started. My next thought, however, was pure rage whoever was behind, because that insufficiently_thoughtful_person almost killed me. As I turned to yell at whoever this fool was, I noticed everyone around me had the strangest, weirdest look on their faces and in their eyes, kind of like "WTF just happened?". I even saw a bit of remorse in the dude's eye who was behind me. Without saying a word, i just turned back around, thankful to be alive and continued waiting to finally get inside the coliseum, find a seat and watch The Who perform. As traumatic as all of this was, I know I was extremely lucky to have survived that stampede uninjured and also get to watch The Who give a fantastic concert that cold winter Monday evening of December 3, 1979. Or perhaps I should say I was luckier than the 26 rockers that had tickets to see The Who concert that night, but missed it due to being taken instead to a local hospital due to their severe trauma injuries they received in the same stampede and/or crowd push that I was involved in. And finally, I was definitely luckier than the 11 rockers who had tickets to see The Who that night, but tragically and most sad, they perished in the same stampede/crowd push that I survived, so they not only missed a fantastic concert, but also the rest of their young adult lives, may all 11 souls R.I.P., they are not forgotten. So, over 40 years after The Who concert that I somehow survived and saw, all of the coins minted by Great Britain's Royal Mint, specifically the 4th entry from 2021 in its ongoing Music Legend series that honors The Who have a deeply sentimental and special meaning to me. In some ways, perhaps I'm trying to assemble a noteworthy set of The Who coins for the 11 souls not here today to purchase, love and compete for "best of" honors themselves (if a registry set is established specifically for the Music Legends coin series that honors The Who). In truth, I already own The Who's ungraded coin versions (still in their original government packaging) for both Cupro-Nickel 5-pound denomination varieties (regular and colorized), the 1/2 oz .999 silver proof coin (1 pound), the 1 oz .999 silver uncirculated bullion coin (2 pounds), the 1 oz .999 silver colorized proof coin (2 pounds), the 2 oz .999 silver coin (5 pounds) and the 5 oz .999 silver coin (10 pounds), as well as NGC graded slabs for all but one of the coins, and that are either a "top population" coin, or the "2nd highest grade" given by NGC., The one/only exception is the 5 oz .999 silver coin, for which I currently on have the original, ungraded coin in it OGP (no NGC graded slab, yet). In closing, I'd like to apologize for the length of my request. I simply felt that my passion for collecting these 2021 coins that honor The Who should be known, and most specifically, exactly why (as a tribute to the 11 souls that needlessly died while on the cold pavilion of Riverfront coliseum in Cincinnati Ohio on Monday evening, December 3, 1979, as they waited to get inside to watch The Who rock it out like only they can).Thank you in advance for your consideration and efforts in creating a competitive registry set specifically for "The Who" coins minted in 2021 by Great Britain's Royal Mint in their ongoing Music Legend series.  

[Sandon]

   The Administrator has established a topic for all new competitive registry set requests. Go to Need a new NGC Registry set? **Please remember to include your NGC certification numbers in your request! ** - NGC Registry - NGC Coin Collectors Chat Boards. As indicated, you should include the serial numbers on the holders of coins that you believe should be included in such a set.

   Have you added these coins to your "coin list" (My Competitive Coins) in the Registry and used the "Add to Sets" function to check whether these coins may be included in existing registry set categories?

 

[Ali E.]

Hello, @Soulreader420.

Welcome! @Sandon has provided some helpful information, above. Thank you.