"The worm has turned and is now packing a uzzie."

Back in December I bought some Madison dollars and brought my Presidential dollars set up to date, complete for 2007. I was fairly proud of what I'd done. The set had 7 MS65FD coins with MS66FD for the Jefferson "D" coin. The set was ranked 80th but with all the ties and such I was really around the 100th position, not bad for a category with 451 sets.

Well, after that I started trying harder to finish my SAE set and finish my 21st Century non-proof type set and work on my Australian Lunar Dollars set and... well, you get the point. It was at this point that my Lincoln cents and Presidential Dollars were largely forgotten for 6 months. Earlier this month I spent a considerable amount of effort (and money) growing the Lincoln cents set by about 50% (from 15 coins to 23, 1045 points to 2141) but then I realized that I was 2 Presidents behind in my Prez Bucks set and ranked 103rd. I've always mentally warned myself against getting more than 1 or 2 presidents behind; If you do that, you risk just giving up. So I resolved to bring the set up to date.

Up to this point I'd been aiming for MS65FDs because the MS66FDs had tended to be just a bit more than I wanted to pay. When I went to "the Bay" to see what I could find and for what price I was shocked to find that I could buy James Monroe and John Quincy Adams dollars in MS66FD for about the same price I had been paying to get MS65FDs in 2007. I made it my mission to win the coins in this slightly higher grade (I've always wanted the MS66FDs but I just couldn't get myself to pay $50/coin). Well I won my JM (in the mail) and JQA (delivered today) dollars but I didn't do just that. I found a great deal on some MS66FD Washingtons, and now I might be able to get som MS66FD Madisons. With a little luck, I could go to having a set of 9 MS66FDs and 3 MS65FDs, ranked around 50 (60th position). Sure it's not a "Top 10" set but it's still nothing to sneeze at.