I started one of my first custom sets this past week. It's so liberating not focusing on "filling slots", but instead trying to build a unique, cohesive thematic set.

I call it The Symphony Set.

The Symphony Set consists of coins featuring musical designs, such as composers, musical instruments, performers, notation or lyrics, opera houses, and other related music topics.

My "day job" is president of a successful indie record label, so I've always been drawn to the very few coins which focus on musical designs. This past week I added the first three coins, a 2002 two euro coin from Ireland featuring a harp, a 1985 Italian coin celebrating the European Year of Music with a pipe organ and the muse of music depicted, and finally, a 1956 Austrian proof 25 shillings coin celebrating the bicentennial of Mozart's birth. The 1956 Mozart proof has a super low mintage of only 1,000 proof coins.

You can view all of these by visiting this custom set:

http://outside-affiliatelinksnotallowed.com/7el53q6

There are very few US coins featuring musical themes, I scanned every page of the Red Book and found three colonial issues, six regular US issues and I'm now making my way through the So-Called Dollars and Conder tokens, plastering my books with post-it notes on any page featuring a coin with a musical design.

If you know of any music related coin designs, I would love for you to point me in their direction. I have a few Conder tokens on their way to NGC now for grading that will be added to this set once they find their way back.

Thanks for looking. I'm super excited about this new set!

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