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In the past I was passing on any older date Nickels. Or putting the newer ones back in circulation. I got a 1938 the other day in some change and decided why not see if I can complete a set of circulated ones. So at the coin shop I planned on buying the blue whitman push in folders. Well I noticed on the used pile he had a used Dansco 8113 for less than the 3 whitmans I would have needed. So my race is off to fill my book.
Now the big question is what are the harder dates that I really need to keep an eye out for?
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The 38 d&s, 39 d&s, 42d with small mint mark beside Monticello, all War Nickels with large mint mark over Monticello, 50 p&d, 51 pd&s and sometimes the 58p can be hard to find. I did this quick off of memory but it should be fairly accurate. Good Luck! |
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i am currently trying to put together a set from circulation as well, so far ive got all but the hardest to find are the keys:1950d, 1939d, 1938s, 1938d, 1939s and are very difficult to find and 1936 buffalos actually appear more frequently than these dates. Others that can be difficult and have low mintages are 1951s, 1955p, 1949s, 1950, 1942d, and 1943d. If you search through boxes its also possible that you could find an occasional V nickel or proof as well, but combined tend to only show up around one every 15 - 20 boxes or so. |
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so many albums and folders...........so little time.........ahhhhggrrrrhh !...  Edited by eaglefoot
05/12/2008 5:23 pm
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So little time? Whats the hurry :) I have like 60 more years of collecting to go :)
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Good call, insideout. The Jefferson nickel set is an easy one to do from circulation. Even if you broke down and bought the key dates at a shop or show, it is still a very inexpensive collection to complete. The 8113 album also includes the proof-only issues, which will be very difficult to fill from circulation since they were never intended to circulate (although they sometimes find their way in). You can always do like I did and fill those holes last (a big chunk of them came when I decided to bust up my proof sets).  |
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I agree. The jeffies are cool to collect because almost anyone can do it. I think the key is to not save everything. A lot of people save their Jeffies because it's a 1953 (fifty years old!!), but in reality it's really only worth face value (or melt value if you listen to the people who talk about the value of nickel and copper....)
Nickels get beat up easily. I'd really recommend new collectors to get a really nice set of Jeffersons while they are really super affordable. Avoid the "incomplete" sets on e-bay - you're just buying common nickels at inflated prices. Any nickel worth anything has been pulled from these sets.
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Well Like I said I'd planned on doing the bule whitman folders but picked up the 8113 cheaper. It was used and the previous owner wrote in on some of the pages. I have to say I think it's the thrill of the hunt. I'm findng around 3 a day that I don't have for now at buying $6 worth a day. I get them from work as change to give back. Keep a list in my pocket of dates after 1964. Then save anything before 1964 till I get it home.
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Just yesterday I ordered a Harris folder for the same purpose. Since its circulated jeffs I didn't want to spend extra for an album. I'm also working on a UNC Jefferson set.
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well only 45 more to go lol to be up to date not counting the proofs. I seem to be lucky and find about 4-6 a week I need but I see that slowing as I mainly need 40's and 50's now. But hunting is half the fun
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Man, where is my luck? Even though I've only been trying to put a Jefferson nickle set together for about a month now I've searched through a little more than 2000 nickles And I have holes everywhere. I found no silvers, no keys. Infact the only thing I found in the 40's was one horribly shaped 1947 and a 1941 (which are plentyful). If the 1964 was valuable then I would be a millionare. I am still missing a 1982 P and a Keelboat P. Other than those two 1970-present are all acounted for. I have maybe 12 representative nickles from below 1970. And these were all unsearched nickles from change hoards from many friends and family members. And searching through masses of Kennedy half dollars for silver is one thing, but searching through nickles are another. I'm going to drive myself blind and insane. I think I'm going to just take it easy, be patient, search a little at a time here and there, and just buy up whenever I can or else this set is going to frusterate me until I loose interest. |
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creaton........ Quote:
So little time? Whats the hurry :) I have like 60 more years of collecting to go :)
Well....60 years from now I'd be 99 years old !!......  And for me.....guess I just meant that I have WAYYYYY too many albums in need of my attention, and in need of completion efforts, first before I should go pouncing off starting yet ANOTHER album that I'll be confounded at not finishing !!...(I have not tasted the satisfaction of a completed one yet)....  |
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My UNC Jeffersons are in an Intercept Shield album but its only upto 2002. I don't know why I didn't pay attention before. As it happens the rest of the years 2003-present are on a 2nd book that I need to purchase($23). So I guess I can't add pages to Intercept albums. I'm thinking whether I should switch all the Jeffs to a Dansco Album which I can just add pages as I go and don't need to work on 2 seperate books.
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With my Dansco albums, the Lincoln goes to 1999, the Jefferson to 2001, and the Roosevelt to 2004. I have a generic Dansco binder with blank cent, nickel, and dime pages for my ultra-moderns. It holds the 2000+ LHC, 2002+ Jeffersons, and 2005+ Roosevelts.
Once I filled the specific albums, I would have had to upgrade the binder size to add pages. I love knowing those albums are now complete, so I opted to start one new album for all three denominations, which would have included all four if the SHQ had not intervened!
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jbuck, Can't you add more pages to the Dansco Jefferson album?
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When I bought the album in 1986, it had four pages. I added a page to it around 1994. A sixth page will not fit in that binder. I would have to replace it, moving the pages to either a six, seven, or eight page binder.
So yes, you can add pages to a Dansco album, but there is only so much room for expansion
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