Setting Up New Nickel Album - Initial Results

I purchased a new Dansco album for Jefferson nickels with Proof and started to sort through some nickel boxes, 4 to be exact and came up with a rather startling conclusion about the status of nickels out in the wild.

I've searched four boxes and the end result is one box from the 2000's, one box from the '90's and another from the '80's. The final box contains mostly rolls from the '00's and '90's with a smattering of rolls from the other decades with a roll of dregs.

Kind of a expected coins from prior to the '60's appear to be hard to come by. I have a couple of more boxes to sort through (again by decade) and really don't expect to see any different results than what I have already found. So I expect that I will have to be visiting the lcs to fill in some holes and getting to the proofs.

I have another nickel album without proofs that is up to date that I started a few years ago and don't remember how I filled in the holes for the coins prior to the '60's. I do remember that the last coin I needed for a complete album was '59 (I believe), but I can't swear that I found all those coins in the wild. However from time to time I was getting some rolls to find better updatable coins for what I have.

This album is definitely going to be different because I know from the start that I'll be needing to obtain the proof coins.

Don't know how much that is going to be setting me back.