My 1888 Mint Set
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5/5/2026
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This was a year of some note. It was a Presidential Election year, Cleveland won the popular vote, but Harrison won in the Electoral College, which we would witness in our life times. Burroughs patented his adding machine, which would dominate calculations for business into the 1960s. Kodak was also founded and would have an 85 year run as the dominate photography business in this country. Seems to me such a year should be memorialized with a set.
The camera at left is a 1940s vintage Kodak, lest we forget! Today, we almost all rely on our smart phones for taking pictures, videos etc., when we used to have cameras. "Times they are a changin" Bob Dylan said it while the rest of us thought it.
These date sets got started for one of two reasons. The first is I had a couple of graded coins from that year and thought perhaps I should finish the job (the case with this set, 1895, 1900, 1927 and a couple of others). These sets being put together were random events unrelated to some underlying principle or strategy. The others were because the year meant something, like 1943 being the pivotal year in Senator Daniel Inoye's life (and Bob Dole, too who was my Senator) or some other issue like my birth year 1949 or the decade of the 1950s which were the years of my very happy childhood. These set were accumulated according to an underlying principle -- these sets mean something to me personally because of the years they represent.
I started this set on September 4, 2024; and I don't remember when I bought the first two coins that resulted in the incentives to amass this set.
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