I could add gold coins but that's a pretty expensive option. Stumped, I put the set aside and decided to pick up an old project I put aside years ago and revisited my work on a family tree (genealogy). As I was doing some research on my grandfather and his birthplace, Poland, an idea struck me upside the head. Why not combine my genealogy work with coin collecting!

This was a perfect solution and I decided to put together a type set of coins based on my entire Families heritage. I already had a head start with my U.S. 20th Century type set and this provided a neat way to expand the set and at the same time make I'd be making a family heirloom that I can hand down to my son who can continue expanding the set.

What I worked out is to have a story page about some one in my family followed by a page that describes what items were for sale during that period and then another page of the actual types of coins that would have been used to make a purchase.

So here I am, planning on expanding my set and since my grandfather was born in Poland during the 1880's it looks like I have my first stop. Poland during the 1880s was actually controlled by Russia and coinage during that time was Russian. Looks like I'm now on the hunt for a 1/4, 1/2, 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, & 50 kopek coins, and a 1/2 & 1 rouble coins for a total of 13 new coins.

I really think this is going to be something special and unique!