How hard is it find the rest of these in circulation?

Persistence is the word. Banks sometimes have them. I filled in the rest from change in liquor stores and car washes. The rest area near me also gives them out as change in the change machine.

 

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Public transport is a good source. Whenever I go into Boston and ride the T I always look forward to refilling my card with cash and getting a big handful of dollar coins as change from the machine.

 

Here's a full set (P/D/S- 117 coins) in a dansco album that sold yesterday on ebay for $181+$12 shipping.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/US-Presiden...588149?hash=item465bd7ec75:g:vn4AAOSw241YbBMr

 

I just looked at your photos. If you're looking for circulated dollar coins of Millard Fillmore and James Buchanan, you may be happy to know that I have multiples of each that I've gotten from various banks just by asking for dollar coins. Most tellers would rather count "normal" paper bills at the end of the day instead of a bunch of coins. So they're usually more than happy to give them to you if you ask to trade paper money for them.

 

Good luck there. I started collecting these, had the first half completed. Was really looking forward to completing the set. Only to find out, you had to buy the rest of the coins from the mint at a premium, to complete the set. Really ticked me off. I lost Respect /interest after that. I will buy a proof set already assembled, if my interest ever returns. Which I doubt at this point

 

There are nnnnoooo errors that I see!

 

You can still find some cool things with these. I got an impaired proof and a van Buren with a prooflike obverse from the bank.

 

I'd say it's next to impossible to find all of the NIFC issue in circulation. The few that you will find are probably like the junk ones I weed out of the rolls and spend, so they're not worth collecting or spending your time looking for them. Bite the bullet and buy some nice ones while they're inexpensive.

By the way, I probably weed out about half of each roll, which are junk, bringing my cost to almost $3/coin - so, mine won't be on the market until the value is well above $3/coin.

 

From what I've seen these albums have the junk coins that I spend at face value.

 

Wow those look really nice. What mint is that again? And sorry, cause im still new to this and hoping to learn, but what is impaired proof?

 

I'm not saying I don't agree.. I just can't imagine that coins pulled from transit-machines will be in any better shape. If you figure the cost of a dansco album, that whole set was only 30-40 dollars over face value (~33%). It'd be pretty tough finding anywhere else that low- maybe a friendly LCS. I'm just trying to point out that it's a buyer's market on these coins.
(Besides... I don't see this series in any grade gaining any sort of premium in my lifetime or my children's..)

An impaired proof is a term for a proof coin that has become less than perfect. His proof coin has circulation damage which has impaired it.

 

Impaired proof means that the proof is circulated and some of the proof finish has been worn off. Proofs were not meant to circulate.

The Polk is San Fran mint and the Van Buren is Philadelphia.