I just LOVE the hunt... putting together three complete sets of
Jefferson nickels out of circulation has been a big-time accomplishment for me, especially when you consider it took me three years as a fast food cashier in the mid-late 1980s to put together the first one...
And I've also almost completed a Silver
Roosevelt dime set (42 of 48 coins) from my combined CRH and Coinstar finds these past six years - I'm only missing 1950-S, the 3 1955 coins, 1960, and 1962.
And, of course, the hoards I've found... I've found hoards of wheat cents,
Buffalo nickels, a full roll of
War Nickels, nine rolls of silver dimes from one hoard, and several full rolls of silver half dollars. And the quarters are now fun to search thanks to the West Point coins and, yes, even the occasional silver does manage to show up, surprisingly.
And, of course, the oddities I've found... An 1867 3-cent piece, a half a roll or so of
V nickels, some
Indian cents, a
Barber dime,
Walking Liberty halves, an AU 1928-S
Buffalo nickel, a 1970-S Small Date cent... you just never know what you're going to find if you're persistent. That's the fun of it for me!
CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!