Wanted to post this somewhere, and I figured since this set was mostly completed with coin roll hunting, may as well post it here. Finished the full date and mintmark set (not counting proofs) of Jefferson nickels from 1938 to 2025! Last two I just bought, 1939-S & 1944-S. May still hunt nickels for the heck of it, see if I can find more war nickels, buffalo nickels, foreign coins, proofs, errors, and whatever else is worth saving. But it might be time to move on to dimes. Those are tougher but I already have all 1965-2025 clad Roosevelt dimes, not counting a spare 1996-W for the album. Every other Roosevelt dime I still need is silver.
I’ve built 3 circulation sets and I take pride in that over my uncirculated set. But for me, collecting started out with my paper routes and things I found. Buying didn’t seem fair back then and I didn’t have the means anyway. But for some series, finding every coin in circulation is impossible. I didn’t consider that then. In the end, by whatever means, collecting is a personal definition.
