Good Choices For Newbie Collector?

i personally like to do half dollars. The are fun to get and uncommon. You can usually get all the coins in circulation except 1987 (hard to find date), 1964pd (90%silver), and 1970d (only issued in mint sets(but can still find them in circulation. I believe that only two have been found in circulation. I found one myself at a bank)Have fun collecting these. This set usually takes about 2 boxes to fill common dates and usually about two years of searching banks (unless you have a good bank that get these commonly).

(tip: when you go to banks and they have half dollars always ask for the rolls that you cant see out of the ends because shotgun rolls are usually the fed or a large business and you want the rolls that other people just throw out to the bank for cash. The half dollar shotgun roll is usually white with brown lines on the ends. I have been through three boxes of these shotgun rolls and have only found 1 S and no silver)

CScott: Even I have a complete collection of State Quarters! That may be interesting to some folks, because I live in Sydney! AND they were All taken out of circulation in the U.S.

That collection started when I was visiting some folks in the 'burbs of Las Vegas.

We were around the backyard pool when I admitted to being a coin collector. It seems when State Taxes were applied separately to every retail sale, most people just throw their spare change in a bikkie barrel or similar, until when they get fed up with the large volume of coins that has accumulated, they cash them all into the local bank.

State tax in Australia, otherwise known as the Goods And Services Tax (GST) is included in the total price.

I enjoyed a couple of hours emptying the said bikkie barrel and first separated the Quarters, then the State Quarters from those, and finally assembling the State ones into dates. Low and behold, I managed to build a complete collection of fifty! I handed over $12.50, and everyone was happy. So a complete collection of State Quarters then jetted back across the Pacific a few days later.