easiest set to collect?

Jefferson Nickels and halfs (Kennedy up to 2002) can be done from cirulation (P-D).
Ikes are a good choice - esp. if you want a complete uncirc. / proof set with silver! - its my only complete P-D-S set and they are all proof or uncirc. I finished the set in about a year and a half.
I also have a kennedy set 1965-2002 P-D set I put together by going through rolls I have bought at the bank. (they are all XF, AU, or uncirc.). I am now working on a Jefferson nickel set (P-D) from circulation. (I have a contest with my nephew to see who can complete the set first!) (he is winning - but I just p/u a box at the bank!)

 

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i forgot to mention, we are doing the statehood quarters. we are having a problem getting certain ones because we're having a hard time finding ones from denver. but we have most of them already. i totally forgot this set. our folders are almost all full aside from last years quarters because of the lack of denvers in circulation here.

i even have a gold toned statehood quarter, georgia i believe. not sure who toned it gold but we're keeping it.

and since i already have a few old nickels as i mention before i might as well go ahead and start collecting them and lincolns, that way i wont even have to go out of my way to collect them, i can get rolls at the bank and buy them at face value.

what about the folders? we use harris folders for our statehood quarters, is there a better folder out there worth using like dansco?

 

i am a little confused about "we" are you collecting with a friend/family member?

 

the WE is me and the missus.

 

There are a few different types of coin albums out there that are great. Its all a personal preference in which one you pick.

Whitman makes a nice album called the "Classic". Coins can be viewed from both sides of the page.
http://www.whitmanbooks.com/default.aspx?page=80&SubCatOID=6

Dansco makes a similar album which is also very nice and is, in my opinion, more popular.
http://www.jpscorner.com/Dansco_Coin_Albums.htm

There are Intercept Shield Albums. I have no experience with these but have heard good things about them.
http://www.jakesmp.com/CSD_Intercept_Shield/Intercept_003_M.html

And there are the Littleton Coin Albums.

http://www.jakesmp.com/CSD_Littleton_products/CSD_Littleton_003_M.html

These I feel are the most popular albums that are used. You can use these or you can put your coins in 2x2s and place them into a binder, making your own album in a sense.
I hope this helps.

 

The zinc cents are really underrated.

You can find extremely high quality coins of most dates without much effort in the mint sets but it's only because people aren't collecting them. If they were coins like a nice attractive '84-D would be nearly impossible to find since they account for only about 5% of mint set coins. With the early zincolns look for nice smooth surfaces. On all dates check to be sure the plating is intact. Brand new dies have nice sharp designs and they tend to shear the plating right off the zinc. These coins will be gone in twenty years so nice choice gems are going to get increasingly tough. Collectors will have to be pretty determined with these coins.

Right now you can pick them up for next to nothing. The mint sts are just a few dollars and you can get most of it back when you sell the other coins. Some of these dates have a very high premium and you won't get that back so take it easy if you try these.

 

i want to collect mint sets and proof sets for every year since i was born. and i really dont like the idea of cracking open even a mint set for a coin to put into a collection. but the sets are fairly cheap, ive seen them around 8-9 bucks for mint sets from the 70's, aside from ones with 40% silver ikes and even those are still reasonably priced.

heck even uncirculated ikes arent carrying much of a premium and even the proofs arent priced too bad though slabbed ones are like 40 bucks and more but i wont be buying slabbed coins for a collection, that's crazy talk!

i dont like the zincolns because they're zinc and tend to rot from the inside out from what ive seen. the minting is putting "chinks in the armor" of the copper and soon after that the zinc rots away. ive seen some god awful ones that were not very old. but still they are a very viable option for a collection and are dirt cheap, 1 cent for each one in most cases. im even looking to buy a few rolls of the 08' lincolns hopefully next week at my bank. they'll all be P's and ill need to trade a couple rolls for D's. that will start my roll collection aside from my wheats.

 

If I May, The Roosevelt's may still be in circulation; But they are a hard set to accumulate if you want nice coins . The Jefferson's or Kennedy's may be a better option.

Regards, Bill

 

Thats an interesting long term investment idea...might be better than an IRA Case lots of mint fresh lincolns, stored in a large nitrogen filled safe in your basement. Forty year return......?????