Kyle's All Or Nothing Dansco Dual Album Coin Roll Hunting Lincoln Cent Collection & Introduction

Introduction:
Back in 2012 after serving my time in the United States Marine Corps, yut and semper fi to all you other devil dogs out there, I was having a pretty substantial issue with pain in my neck and upper back. It wasn't debilitating or anything, I was still working and doing my best to build my new young family, it was just painful. The VA sends me to get imaging done , and tells me they found why I was so uncomfortable. I had a fused vertebrae in my cervical(neck) spine but they played it off like it wasn't a big deal and sent me to physical therapy and gave my some Motrin, anyone that has served knows this is standard military protocol, pretty much for all ailments minus cancer and amputations I imagine. They didn't even show me X-rays and I continue life as an aviation electrician type. With all kinds of different titles throughout my career and working some really cool jobs for the big aviation companies, one I am specifically proud of is Working for Lockheed Martin Skunk Works. Skunks are like the Marines of the avaition world. Fast forward to '25 and I still work for LM currently just in a different capacity now. Over the last 13 years I have been lucky enough to do some really cool things. I worked for all kinds of aviation programs, ran multiple Snap-On franchises for seven years, that sadly but for the best was killed by COVID and a number of other issues, and was an active human in general. I love being in the pits at punk shows, being on any type of two wheels or in anything with an engine and on top of the mountains anyway I can. Those are things I love but sadly can not do any longer. That's what I'm doing here, this is my safe and responsible replacement. I was diagnosed in 2023ish with something called Klippel-Feil Syndrome(KFS), after multiple issues with pain and tingling throughout my body. I went to the VA and they did the works of imagining and the DR calls me in and says, "do you know what a hunchback is?" Like Quasimodo? I replied. Exactly she says. But I don't look like a hunchback? You will was her response. Come to find out my spine is so bad, I was told I have the spine of a 65 year old at 35, that there have been others with what I have that have had a small fall and ended up as quadriplegics. As a Father of two and a Husband, I just can't put my family in that position, so after 2 years trying to "make it work" I finally decided that I CAN NOT do any of the things I used to love that will jeopardize my physical health.
It's odd that I ended up on collecting coins, Lincoln Cents specifically, I've never been a big fan of money in general, but one day I end up searching through my change from the gas station and realized wait a minute this might be kind of fun! I went all in, as I do with most of the things I do and here I am! I am excited to learn and collect, I know I'm late to the game but that's ok. I'm already having all kinds of fun.

I think I do know how to link other threads! I did it accidentally on another post.
I can do it lol may take me some time editing but I got this!

I just saw I shed my NEWBIE badge as well, not sure that's ok yet lol I am for SURE still a newbie!

Thanks for the comment Spence, welcome to my journey! Here are the front and back inside covers of each album. I think this is a very beautiful feature to these albums. The front inside cover has a description and some history about the specific coin and the rear inside cover has mintage numbers for the specific year and mint location. There is a number in parentheses in front of the mintage amount that I am unaware what it represents.
For example:
1936.,.,.,. (5,569) 309,637,569.

Maybe one of the CCF members can drop some knowledge up in this thread!

Lincoln Cents 1909-2009
Inside Front and Rear Covers



Lincoln Shield Cents 2010-Date
Inside Front and Rear Covers

If you look in later years, the number in parentheses is used exclusively for S-mint cents. The parentheses designate the number of proof issues for that year.

Thanks Spence! Makes a lot of sense. Knowledge obtained! I love it! Ok here comes the first pictures of my collection, I started with Lincoln Shield Cents Album number 7104 because it's a lot easier and faster to clean 2 pages vs 8 pages lol. While everyone is checking them out I will be getting Album 7100 ready, if your like me and don't go out much on Saturday nights well WELCOME and let's get this Album Party STARTED! Please anyone who has any questions, comments or concerns please post, I will also pull any coin anyone would like to see Obverse and Reverse photos of, just ask! Remember these are ALL collected through primarily CRH, well CRH and grabbing anything I like from the "grab a penny take a penny" anywhere I go My Mother also donates any pennies she obtains as well, she also gave me my very first wheatie, a 1953-D she found in the dirt. Thanks Momma! Maybe that's why I have a thing for the wheaties, although I only have four at the moment

Here are a couple of more photos for you viewing pleasure!

Page 1 Top 3 Rows:
Front:

Rear:


Page 1 Bottom 3 Rows:
Front:

Rear:



I also took a picture of my "GEAR" it consists of from left to right:
-My penny rolling kit for searching through mixed coin and re-rolling coins, cents end up separating copper from the rest as I figured there may be some collectors who need coppers for their smashed adventures and the rest I will take back to the bank. I'll get more into my CRH adventure later.
-Tomlov DM4 Lite that I will be ordering an extension arm for to be able to take complete coin photos, as the supplied mount does not let you get high enough to do. I created a slide area in the middle with the back of a sticker and used the sticker to hold it to the base because I noticed as I was inspecting coins I was scraping them as well! This was my solution
-AWS-1000 to verify coin weight, mainly '82s but I also throw '83-'85ish cents on it as I have read there are very odd cases of copper planchets making it into later years of cents somehow.

Looks like you are on your way with collecting Lincoln cents - Very nice
I started collecting wheat cents - when I was around 12 years old my friends and I would ride our bikes to various banks in the area and buy cent rolls and search them right there in the banks parking lots looking for wheat cents. Fun times.
Now I have refined my searches to auctions where I mainly collect PCGS, NGC, and ANACS graded 1909-S, 1911-S, 1912-S, 1914-S, 1922, 1924-D, 1931-S, 1959-P & D Cameo Proofs, and 1970-S small date cents. That keeps me busy enough and doesn't break the bank (too much)

Looking good Kyle. Best of wishes on your CRH journey.