Jefferson Nickel Set

I recommend a Dansco album, but there are others that should work just as well. Avoid using folders if you can afford the albums.

Folders only show one side of the coin, albums show both sides. Folders need extra pressure to secure (snap) the coin in place, which usually ends up leaving a finger print on the coin in time. Normally, album coins drop in (between the clear plastic slider sleeves) with little to no effort.

Yeah its possible. The silver and 1950D and earlier dates are hard to get. I will have to say I am seeing less and less of the pre 1960 nickels.

As already noted Folders are not really good for coins. They are mass produced by many companies that could care less about the future of a coin in them.
Some of the problems with a Folder is:
1. Usually takes a lot of pressure to push a coin into the slots and usually done with fingers, a thumb or even a rubber hammer.
2. The obverse of the coins are exposed to people's touching, sneezing, coughing, spitting, etc every time you open one up.
3. It is easy to damage one coin with another while putting one in place.
4. Now here is the worst part of a Folder. See that shinny stuff on the rear of an empty slot. That is the left over glue from the manufacturing process. An entire sheet is slapped with glue. The slotted sheets are then layed on that. Your coins are now exposed to that glue and if in a high moisture area, that glue gets transferred to the coins.
Kids usually like that glue since if putting a well worn coin in a Folder, they tend to fall out. So kids spit on the rear of a coin, this wets the glue so the coin now sticks in place.
If in change you find a coin with a dark rear and a normal front, most likely from a Folder.

I would say you can surely put together a set at face value. like others have said start roll searching

with that wisdom.

IMHO the search for a complete circulation strike set from rolls is great fun ... and can still be completed with some patience and persistence.

I've been at it since February 2008 and am now at 250,800 coins searched ... with two holes to fill.

David

Hmmmm ... my searching activity is most definitely tied to the demands of work ... some weeks more coins ... some weeks none at all.

I've been at the Quest for 41 months now ... and have been through 125 boxes .... so appx 3 boxes per month as a long term rate.

I went back to my 30,000 coin summary (close to your current 33,000 coins) .... at that time I had 15 holes pre-1960.

Interesting that I have been 'stuck' at 2 holes since 151,600 coins searched when I bagged the 1944-D to leave only the 38-S and 43-D needed.

Unless lady fortune smiles on me .... I'm about to pass 100,000 coins searched without filling a hole!

David

cool, I feel ahead of the game now. and that would be rough doing 100,000 coins and no hole fillers. but.... when you do get a hole filler I bet the feeling will be awesome!
out of the few people on CCF who have finished a set from circulation, I wonder how many coins each of them searched. that would be a cool list to look at.