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What are you moving on to next?
I only collect 5 things:
Wheat Pennies
Jefferson nickelsType Set
1959 to present mint uncirculated coins (mostly mint sets with a few extra like '71 and '72 Ikes)
1968 to present S mint Proofs (mostly proof sets with a few extras like Brown Ikes)
I'm no longer hunting through change, so I just keep an eye out for anything I'm missing.
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Did you find all of them roll searching?
I suppose I could have because my starting point was a Whitman folder passed down from my father that was complete through 1961, so I needed around 90 nickels. I bought 10 rolls from the bank, but quickly found out they were mostly very moderns.
Whenever I did business at a banks, post office, or other stores, if nobody was behind me in line, I asked for old nickels. I took anything with the old Jefferson on front and swapped out the new coins I had from rolls. I took one of the old ones and one of the new ones (and the weird 2005 front) with me to show what I was looking for. I could usually get a dollars worth each time with no problem. I fairly quickly got to where I was missing only 12 coins:
62, 62D, 66, 68D, 68S, 69S, 71D, 77D, 83P, 93P, 04P boat, 04D pipes.
Statistically I knew I would have to search a LONG time to find all of those nickels from the 60s so I decided to buy the 10 nickels I needed from the 20th Century from someone here on CCF. That left me with the two 04s. I got the first one at the bank Thursday and the final one at the liquor store Saturday.
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Now here is a thought. Being your first completed set and if you have a sedimentality type personality, you may want to keep it as is. Sort of a momento of your first. You can always make better sets later and even make some way better ones. However, this one is your first completed set and THAT can not be done again.
That was pretty much my thinking. I collect mint sets from 1959 and proofs from 1968 so I have every mint mark of nickel in MS or PF condition since 1959 (or will, when I get the 59-64 sets). The nickels up through 61 were collected by my father, mostly from pocket change, and his
War Nickels were likely taken out of pocket change when he returned from the war, so I'm not swapping any of those out!
Posted 07/15/2012 11:37 pm
What are you moving on to next?
