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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PyrotekNX, post: 115759, member: 3918&quot;]You will have better luck getting a &#039;starter set&#039; of wheats and then just filling the holes.&nbsp; I started my small cent collection last year and I&#039;m only missing about 30 coins from 1857-2005 not including proofs.&nbsp; I bought several incomplete sets at a steal and then put them together to make a mostly complete set.&nbsp; I still have quite a few extras in my &#039;vault&#039;.&nbsp; I have 4 whitman 1909-1940 that are partially filled, 3 volume 2&#039;s mostly filled and a 1959-1985 that need a good home.&nbsp; I also have several other partial sets that all need good homes, I will list them below.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once you have a pretty good set going, I would invest in an Intercept Shield Lincoln Cents 1909-2007 album.&nbsp; Copper type coins are hardest to keep without toning :READ: damage.&nbsp; Once you have your Album, also invest in a dozen white polyester or cotton gloves.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are starter sets for Lincoln Memorials that start from 1959 and go to 2005 in BU with the 1982 7 coin variety and the 1960 small and large date.&nbsp; They will save you a lot of time and effort.</p><p><br /></p><p>The majority of coins missing oddly enough are pretty common date wheat and even lincoln memorials.&nbsp; I am only missing 7 different Indian Heads and Flying Eagles.&nbsp; I don&#039;t count overdates because they are errors and not really varieties.&nbsp; I am counting the 3 different 1864s and the 2 different 1886s.&nbsp; Here is a list of missing Indian Heads. 1858SM Letters, 1867, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1877, 1909S Indian.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whitman Mercury Dime Collection 1916-1945 in whitman missing 1916-D, 1916-S, 1917-D, 1918-D, 1919-D 1921, 1921-D, 1924-S, 1925-S, 1926-D, 1926-S, 1927-D, 1928-D, 1928-S, 1929-D, 1929-S, 1930, 1930-S, 1931PDS, 1934-D, 1937-S, 1938-D, 1939-S, 1944-D</p><p>Indian Head Cent Collection in a Dansco with 1857 FE, 1858 LG Letters, 1859, 1863, 1864, 1864-L, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1885, 1886 Var II, 1887, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892-1907</p><p>Indian Head Cent Whitman with 1859, 1863, 1880, 1882, 1887, 1889-1893, 1897-1907[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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