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    Registry Type Set of Classic Commemoratives

    Dec 21, 2020 7 minutes
    By Mike Thorne, Ph.D.
    (Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions)

    SEVERAL YEARS ago, my wife asked me to show her the coin I had just gotten in the mail. It was an upgrade to my PCGS Registry Set of 1932-1964 Washington quarters, a 1932-S in MS65.

    After looking at both sides of the coin (she rotated it rather than turning it over) and saying that it looked nice, she came back with the killer comment, “It looks just like all the rest of the coins in your set.”

    Never mind that it was gem uncirculated and had that crucial “S” on the reverse. Never mind that I had just spent more than $2,500 on it. [The value has plummeted since I bought it, but that’s another story]. To her, it was still just a normal, albeit silver, Washington quarter, with the bust of George Washington on the obverse and an eagle on the reverse. It looked like almost all the other quarters she had encountered in change her whole life.

    And it occurred to me that the same comment could be leveled at all of the other coins in my various sets. To a non-coin

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