Hello, fellow coin fanatics. If anyone remembers any of my posts, I love
Jefferson nickels, and nickels pretty much in general. I had completed my first set of them in a Dansco album awhile back, album 7114. It was fun to put together. I love how long it was, and that was for one only including business strikes.
I got another album for Christmas, 8113, which includes proof only issues. I have been working on this one little by little. Since they minted proofs before 1971 that were not proof only issues and since I already have the business strikes in another album, I have been filling in the older proofs in the corresponding business strike slots since there really is no indication of what has to go there technically.
However, recently, I came up with an idea to use either blank pages or a blank nickel album from Dansco, and basically build my own customized album. This way, I could put all the proofs, and all business strikes in the album, and organize them exactly how I want. Hell, I thought about going even further, and including both business strike mints and a circulated and BU coin for each one, and proofs. That might be a lot, though. Could be fun, though. I do have multiples of many Jeffersons, both in BU and circulated condition from bank roll hunting.
I am looking to potentially start at 1950 for proofs, since anywhere before that they cost a pretty penny. I think at those prices anyways they would probably remain better in a slab if I did opt to purchase them. From my understanding, there really only seems to be proofs minted in 38, 39, 40, and possibly 41 and 42? Not entirely sure. I know there seems to be a large gap after 42 I believe all the way up until 1950.
Only thing I really don't like about this notion is the fact that using blank pages may require adding in the dates and mint marks by hand, from per my OCD, I'm not a fan of. Lol. Perhaps I should invest in a label maker.
Any advice?
Posted 03/14/2025 11:23 pm
