CoinTalk Members Post Coins One Type a Day to Fill a "Virtual" Dansco 7070 Type Set
A thread on the CoinTalk collector forum invited members to fill a Dansco 7070 type set album together, virtually, by posting one of its 83 types each day. The thread's date is not given in the source. One member asked to compile everyone's photos into a digital type set, and the thread's starter agreed.
Correction (Oct 13, 2026): We shortened and rewrote the headline, summary and body to match the source, a CoinTalk forum thread. We removed unsupported claims (the headline's 3.4x rise in trading volume, the claim that "7070" is a target number of coins, a cloud database, AI identification and translation, VR, worldwide participation, discoveries of rare coins, effects on market prices, voting-based governance, and UNESCO interest), and made clear that the content consists of forum members' statements and that the source does not give the thread's date. The previous headline was "Virtual 7070 Boosts Coin Trading Volume by 3.4x."
This article is based only on posts in a thread on the CoinTalk collector forum titled "The Collaborative 'Virtual 7070' Type Set Project." The source text does not give the date of the thread, so this is not necessarily recent news. What follows are the posters' own statements and opinions.
How the project works
The thread was started by a member named lordmarcovan. Lordmarcovan wrote that a user called "creg" on Collectors Universe suggested creating a "virtual collection" in which participants would all work on the same set together, virtually. Lordmarcovan started the thread on Collectors Universe and also on CoinTalk.
Lordmarcovan suggested the Dansco 7070 type set album as the set to fill.
According to the thread's opening post:
- Each day is devoted to one slot in the album, that is, one type, in order. - Day one is the Draped Bust half cent, day two the Classic Head half cent, day three the Braided Hair half cent, and then the Draped Bust large cent. - There are 83 types to complete the album. - Each day, unofficial bragging rights go to the person who posts the nicest coin and to the person who posts the nastiest coin. - Any grade is acceptable, as long as the coin is of the correct type and has a readable date.
Lordmarcovan also asked participants to post both sides of their coins if they can.
The first rounds
The first slot was the Draped Bust half cent (1800-1808). A participant named Tall Paul posted a coin described as "AU-58 BN."
The second slot was the Classic Head half cent (1809-1835). Lordmarcovan wrote that the only coin of this type the poster owns is a holed example, part of a corkboard collection called "Holey Basic 19th Century Type Set." Lordmarcovan said that collection would be used for types without nice examples of.
The third slot was the Braided Hair half cent (1849-1857), which the post noted is also called the Coronet half cent. Tall Paul wrote of owning an 1855 C-1 in MS-64 BN, but that the NGC photos are not very good and chose to sit out that round.
An offer to compile the photos
A member named gxseries asked for permission to make a digital type set using everyone's photos, saying the posters would be acknowledged and label it "cointalk special" or something similar. Lordmarcovan replied "ABSOLUTELY!" and noted that the photo quality would vary.
Source: CoinTalk, "The Collaborative 'Virtual 7070' Type Set Project."
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