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Message:: [QUOTE="David W. Lange, post: 8397416, member: 139689"]Whitman's Ninth Edition (1978-99) did include extension numbers for the most often printed titles of coin series that were still being minted. The example of that title in my collection is numbered 9000-12, and it does include "20th Century Indian Head Cents" at the end. I believe the extension number refers to different printing versions, the one illustrated at the message board being earlier than the one I have, so the numbers were not sequential. The company didn't seem to know what it should do with the remaining openings for folders having no concluding date, so it labeled the leftover openings for other cents that didn't belong there. I have a folder for Jefferson Nickels Starting 1962 that has openings on the last page printed for Liberty Nickels 1900-12. The coin hobby division of Western Publishing was in free fall during the 1980s, and Western Publishing ultimately closed the Racine plant in 1996 and sold off the Whitman coin products division. The Ninth Edition includes all manner of wacky folders that appear to have been designed by persons having no real knowledge of the hobby, since all of the numismatists on its staff had quit by then or been let go. I did catalog this edition for my book but then ultimately cut off with the Eighth Edition. The missing edition could make for an interesting article someday.[/QUOTE]