Thinking About Sub-Sets

I,too,have a subset of War Nickels. I only put BU War Nickels in my Dansco and in my set of just War Nickels and they look impressive. I lack only the 44-D & 44-S having completed the subset. I also have several subsets of the Westward Journey nickels. I bet there are also a lot of Birth Year sets put together as well.

ROFL Razor! I started that a few weeks ago. I went to a coin store in San Fran and found a bunch of those Whitman year holders (1cent - 50cent) for 15 cents each so I bought all that he had. Then I had to figure out what to do with them. LOL So I decided to do that.

I am working on three different sets besides the standard Whitman folder sets. I am working on a set of British Large Pennies from 1902 to 1967. I am also working on 2 different Lincoln Memorial sets 1959 to 2008. One is all toners. I have not bought a single one. I am getting them all from roll searching, so there is no cost to acquire them. The other set is a complete BU set 1959 to 2008. I am hand picking them to be able to grade out at MS-63 or better. I am including the 60P, 60D, 70S, 74P, 74D, 74S small date/large date, and all 7 different 1982 cents. Most of these coins I have managed to acquire for about .25 to .50. Yes, the 70S will be costly, but is the grand scheme of expensive coins it is a minor player. I have been putting all three sets in 2X2s in individual binders, so I can look at them. I am labeling each coin with a digital labeler I bought to give it a nice polished look. I even added a nice illustrated cover sheet and spine. I am having a blast with these three sets.

I've long thought about the transition years collection.

I have almost finished assembling a set of BU Copper Memorial Cents. It's a small, easy set to put together pretty inexpensively -- even with the small & large date varieties. The nice thing is it fits in 2 Dansco cent pages with enough rows left over for the 2008-2010 transition. It's a nice looking set. I'll post photos when it's done (should be next week).