No more this month

I have completely exhausted my coin funds for this month. Normally, I have a little left over each month and I congratulate myself on being stingy.

This month turned out to be different. I finally broke down and purchased the last key date for my Washington quarter collection and, at $190, took quite a chunk out of my budget.

I also started at filling out my Type Sets. Let me explain about my Type Sets. I am currently doing two different Type Sets. The first one contains only the first year of issue of each type. This is turning out to be much harder than I originally suspected. I am getting mostly G4 coins because of the costs.

The second Type Set I have named my "best available" coin. That is, I go for the best example I can find (and afford). This set isn't too hard but some coins are still out of my price range. I have many MS and BU coins but the majority of the older ones are in the EF or VF categories.

Anyway, I purchased several coins for my "first date of issue" Type Set including the commemorative half-dollar. Both sets are still sadly empty but these are totally fun! 3 cent silver pieces and large 1 cent coins! Wow!

Now I have to wait until September to really continue since I actually went over my budget in July (already!) and will have to wait out the hots days of August deciding which coins I'll get next.