1869 3 Cent

Lovely - check out this specialty site for these - http://www.3centnickel.com/

I agree. I am working on completing this set while offloading many of my conventional US collections (Lincoln, Buffalo, etc). I love these small coins.

Jeffreyice...feel free to ask any questions you'd like either through a particular topic on these boards or via email to me if you'd like. However, I strongly suggest you search through the posts using the Search feature here (be sure to not forget the archived posts) for anything with "3CN" in it. There's a lot of stuff on this board. Probably a lot more than you'll see just about anywhere else on the Net.

As noted before, 3CN (along with some other stuff, like 20-centers) are a specialty of mine. I think they are quite underrated and very much undercollected. Finding nice, original, eye-appealing pieces for just about any date and any grade can be a challenge. Of course, the earlier dates are a bit easier, but quite often you'll run into problem pieces.