Anyone Putting Together Short Sets?

I am working on the short set of Buffalo nickels from 34 to 38. There are only 12 coins I believe and they are the last years which are not too expensive but I am doing them in MS65 and MS66 so it still is getting up there in price.

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I recently finished a war years set of Mercury dimes (1941-1945) and am working backwards to try to get a full set (minus the keys - I'm not that rich). The grades are mixed, but I try to shoot for EF or better and so far most have cost <$2.

I'm also starting on a set of 1946-1964 Roosevelt dimes - again with a budget around $2 each. These are both just fun, affordable, little sets.

I've made a few sort of short sets. I use the Whitman Classic album covers and use their blank pages. With the gold press on letters and numbers I've made such things as a Jefferson nickel album with only one of each year and all either D's or P's. No proofs either. I made a similar one for Roosevelt dimes. I got the idea at a coin show where a dealer was selling a Lincoln Cent set in such an album and made up of only the Phily coins and all in MS grades. One for each year and no errors, proofs, etc. Since Whitman sells the album covers I've been thinking of making a few more like that.

I have 3:
1950-1964 proof Jefferson cameo
1950-1964 lincoln proofs(just need the 1950)
1941-D year set in pcgs MS66 (need the quarter and half)

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Nice! I like the color.

I love the idea of collecting short sets. My interest in coin collecting comes mostly from my interest in history. These short coin sets are a great way to package periods of time and history. I think that my first short set will be a set of WWII coins. Maybe I will do a set of key date WWII coins.