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I vote for Roosevelt's on the back burner while you open the new can of worms in a Lincoln set. 09-09

I guess it would technically be three sets at once but you can work on them in chunks and have a lot of fun within the hobby. Lots of action and filling real estate but easier on the pocketbook to take say a few years to do it.

I don't know your collecting pattern. To some, working on more than one set at a time spreads them too thin. Others like doing more than one at a time for that instant gratification of seemingly ALWAYS being able to fill SOMETHING.

Jeffersons are also an easier set on the wallet too if you are confident enough to throw them into the mix. Breaking mint sets will let you make a very nice sets for the non keys while maximizing your money since you would be filling more than one book at a time. The benefit of working on single sets is you become quite familiar with the particular coins and varieties with narrowed focus.

Good luck.

-RFB

The Franklin half dollars and Jefferson nickels were the easiest sets for me to complete. Since you are already completing the Franklin album, I agree that a Jefferson album should be your next project.

Just Carl-I can work on most any collection, however, I do not want to get into such high priced collections that progress is extremely slow. I really like to see regular additions. As a clue, my franklin sets will probably be compete in a total of 6 months,all but three of the coins to date are either proofs, ms65fbls or better. I have one local dealer, but he only has a bare minimum in his store. He can "always get whatever I want", but when I make up my mind, I don't like to wait. I buy some on ebay (try to stick with certified coins) and a few online dealers. I do like Danscos, my franklins are in a dansco, I have a 7070 started (loooong term) and a Morgan that I have included circulated coins in that I have had for sometime (may begin to upgrade at some point). Still not sure what I want to focus on next.

That too is my outlook on collecting. I started with pennies (cents for those that are sensitive about terminology). However, I soon enough realized what I might miss out on so started collecting everything. With over 100 Whitman Albums, I still tend to start a new one if the coins become available. If not, so what. There is always tomorrow.

Not sure if you have any coin shows in your area but around me there are many. I go to about 2 to 4 a Month. Got to know many dealers pretty well mostly by just talking to them. A few tell me they get most of their inventory by buying albums or folders from people. All coins are placed in those little flips, smaller than 2x2's. Then the albums and folders are thrown out. So I started asking dealers if they don't want them, instead of throwing them out, bring to the next show and give to me. Several have. One dealer gave me two boxes of them, over 40. All different brands and types. Now after several years of this, I keep the ones I want and give the others to a person that sells at the flea markets or a neighbors kids.
This is basically why I have well over 100 Albums. When I get an Album for a coin I don't have, I start collecting that coin too. I really don't care about the grade of a newer type collection. I figure eventually I'll get more Albums and slowly improve set #1 of that type. And example of this is my Mercury dimes. Now have 12 sets completed. Set #1 is in the highest grade with slowly lower and lower grades in each set where #12 is really pretty poor in quality.
It's fun but really time consuming. Think of it. I get a MS-65 Mercury dime that could go into #1. This moves that replaced coin to set #2, then to #3, etc., etc. With each coin it takes a lot of time moving coins from set to set.
Another problem is I keep all set grades in an Excel spreadsheet. So now with that new coin I have to also change 12 sheets of information.
See how much fun this is.