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Message:: [QUOTE="Jeepfreak81, post: 24884386, member: 93888"]There are things I think that have changed over the years (as things tend to do).  One of them being what the mint puts out and what gets circulated, etc.  As a kid I mostly spent time trying to fill penny and nickel folders.  To be honest, I still do only now I do it with my kids.  My youngest especially enjoys it.  But I just pull these out of circulation. One thing that has re-sparked interest for me is to narrow my focus.  I tend to zoom out too much and take the "pokemon approach" of gotta catch them all.  That's not only unrealistic, it would be waaaaay out of my budget. I collect on the cheap, having not spent over maybe $40 on a single coin. As for roll hunting, I used to do more of it but everything seems so picked over at this point.  I still try to fill holes from circulation in my folders though. I've found renewed joy in Foreign coins which 5 years ago I had zero interest in.  Buying a few pounds of them and then pouring through them looking at the various designs, figuring out the years, etc - great fun for me and my son.[/QUOTE]