Easiest Coin Series To Collect?

Why not use Whitman folders for your Washingtons?

I don't really like using the cheap folders for coins, at least not for anything in my more "serious collecting," sense, like an entire P&D set. If I was to do something like State Quarters, national park quarters, I would be more likely to go this route.

Interesting. Yeah, if I did collect the proofs, that would add to a four page album. I asked my wife to purchase me the regular business strike Eisenhower dansco album for Christmas. But I think I might ask her for the proof one instead. Perhaps, if I do the proof, I will start off with some of the more expensive coins first, like silver proofs.

I also asked for the Dansco Kennedy half dollar 1964-current album. It's P&D only.
One thing I am not a fan of is with many sets, if you use Dansco, you basically have to include the silver proofs if you opt to do proofs at all. Kennedy half dollars, Quarters, dimes, etc.
That's one thing I love about Jeffersons! No expensive silver coins or silver proofs. Only the War Nickels. My current collection is P, D and early S mint marks. No proofs.

I basically opted to collect most of my coins from circulation. I have some purchased, though, like a few really nice War Nickels. I was doing all proof and BU, but I opted to not continue that route as it was getting too expensive for me personally. Many of my "purchased" BU coins had recently also taken on a hideous, unpleasant toning to them where they didn't have when I first purchased them. Plus, I honestly like the look of a lot of circulated jefferson silver coins, especially older ones. I will probably finish up the jefferson album this month. I haven't decided whether I want to collect the Jeffersons from 2006 and onward or not. If I do, I'll probably put them in a separate album, as there really isn't any room currently in my existing Jefferson Dansco album. It's currently six pages long, with the last page being a blank page for whatever goodies I find that I like to hang onto from coin roll hunting.

I also might take a look around for used Dansco albums from coin stores. Buying several albums that cost 45-55 dollars is a bit ridiculous. I also like Whitman, but the quality is a kind of "you get what you pay for," scenario. My Jefferson nickel album that I had used previously is basically already worn out and I had to trash it recently. If one is going to be constantly swapping coins out like I do, I don't recommend Whitman!

Do you recall how much it cost you to complete your Eisenhower set? I am also okay with purchasing circulated coins personally, if it makes it cheaper, for business strikes obviously.

Yeeeeah... Definitely not going that route! I'll go the raw coin route lol

That seems cool and all, but I mean... I feel like putting a set together yourself is part of, if not most of the fun.
I would pick up something like that, though, on bottom. The starter kit.

Paying like, hundreds of dollars for me is personally kind of not an option lol
I think the most would be around a hundred.

This is partly why I abandoned my Buffalo nickel set. I don't really want to waste my time with something where there is going to be several empty holes, namely the three legged buffalo and some of the earlier key dates.

did you do both a raw coin Eisenhower set and a slabbed one?

IMO, the easiest is the Ike dollar series. Especially from a date/mintmark/composition standpoint.

Also much more easily examined by my aging eyes.

Yes, the Kennedy half dollars and Ike dollars both seem to be good choices. I'm also thinking about doing a separate set of Jefferson nickels with proofs. I already have a ton of the jefferson proofs... so why not. I have all the proofs from 70-79 (minus the type ll), 90-99, and 2000-2003. I had initially abandoned doing this, but since my Jefferson 1938-2005 circulated set is almost complete, I thought might give this a go again. I'll also purchase some other random proofs, like the set on ebay right now currently that has all proof nickels from 1956-1964. Cost only around 20 dollars.

I think what I'll do is for earlier minted proofs, pre-1968, I'll put the proofs in place of the business strike philly minted coins. I did this initially for the 1968, 1969 and 1970 s proofs, too. I wouldn't mind getting my hands on some of the earlier Jefferson proofs if they were affordable, but they aren't. The cheapest, older proof I've noticed is the 1955. At least on ebay.

So I'm looking into Eisenhower dollars, Kennedy halves, and a new Jefferson set with proofs. This should be relatively low cost and keep me busy for awhile.

It is probably true when considering business strikes, especially before they became de-facto NIFC in 2002. Although it is much easier searching bank boxes than waiting to get them in change.

Will do! I am hoping to possibly go to my local coin dealer and add in the coins I am missing in my Jefferson business strike album this weekend.
I do like finding most coins through change or coin roll hunting, but there are some coins that would take forever to obtain this way.

I think half dollar coins, and dollar coins in general, are probably the most collectable kinds of coins out there IMO.
That said, I'd love to get into like Peace dollars, Franklin halves, etc... But uh, the cost is not within my budget due to silver content lol