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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mac266, post: 964127, member: 26371&quot;]My dad gave me a blue Whitman folder for Lincoln Cents.&nbsp; It started in 1959, the first year of the &quot;Lincoln Memorial.&quot;&nbsp; I was about 8 years old in the early &#039;80s when I started in very much the same way as the OP, and didn&#039;t finish filling that book until 2008.&nbsp; Of course, I had long since transferred them to one of the nice Dansco albums.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This particular folder had all the large and small date varieties, and I had no idea how hard it was to find the 1970 S varieties.&nbsp; I eventually bought them PCGS certified, because very few people can correctly attribute the small date of that year.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen a ton of large dates being sold as small dates (I paid $5 for the large date in MS65, and $80 for the small date in MS65, both PCGS certified).</p><p><br /></p><p>In the meantime I had branched out in a lot of directions.&nbsp; I currently boast complete date / mint mark sets of Franklin Halves, &quot;Mercury&quot; Dimes, Jefferson Nickels, Roosevelt Dimes, Eisenhower Dollars, Kennedy Halves, Statehood Quarters, SBA Dollars, and a few others that are slipping my mind at the moment.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m working on date / mint mark sets of Washington Quarters (I&#039;m about 90% there!), and &quot;Buffalo&quot; Indian Head Nickels.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Future plans include date / mint mark sets of Standing Liberty Quarters, Indian Head Cents, Peace Dollars, and Lincoln &quot;Wheat&quot; Cents.&nbsp; I also dabble in ancients, but I only buy things that catch my eye.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think one could assemble a date / mint mark set of ancients!</p><p><br /></p><p>Wow, OP, I&#039;m glad you posted this.&nbsp; I just spent the past 10 minutes looking back at 25 years of collecting, and it was fun <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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