Big Silver Type Sets

COLLECTING ONE or more series within United States coinage can be a great deal of fun, as we dive into all the details of a particular series. If there is a frustration to such an endeavor, it is probably any key dates or mint marks. A rare coin is always going to be precisely that – rare – and thus will be the stumbling block to completing a set. One way around that is to focus on collecting type sets, composed of one prime example of a coin from several similar series. Let’s take a look at assembling two truly handsome type sets, those of the bigger United States silver issues.

First, The Half Dollars

Our fifty-cent coin has hardly been a work horse coin, at least not for the past fifty years or so. The Mint has kept producing them, and virtually every store or business still takes them. But there’s no place for them in vending machines, and often no set place