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Message:: [QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 750090, member: 4552"]If you started in the 60's you may have a Whitman Folder, not an Album. Not sure when Whitman started with Albums though. To long ago to remember now. I started in the 40's with those old Folders and soon found out they really were not the best things for coins. The back of the slots are full of glue. Of course for a kid that helps holding in the really worn coins. You just spit on the coin and the glue now holds. I suggest you also keep on looking at change as much as possible. With the economy as it has been there are many people dumping old jars, cans, boxes, etc. of coins in banks that they've had for that rainy day and it is here now. Also, there have been a rash of home robberies in some areas due to the economy and the criminals just dump the coins in coin counting machines. I've had some really nice luck finding coins at garage/yard/estate sales too. Just remember you have to ASK. Not many put coins out on a table at those events. You have to ASK. Even if you don't find them in change, you might look up coin shows. Go to a few and see how many of what you need is available. And if you never find those last elusive ones, and really want to have a completed set, just put a Copper Washer in those places. Not the real thing but some just don't like empty slots. Someone I know purchased a fake 1909S VDB at a coin show for a few dollars. Said copy on the reverse but it now fills an Album.[/QUOTE]