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Message:: [QUOTE="Paddy54, post: 2774413, member: 19250"]They were also horded and sold to collectors on the right coast. Mostly released on  the left coast.Another  factor  one must consider  air travel..and you ask why? Well think about it in the late 50's early  60's only the affluent traveled by air. So any S minted coins that did travel via pocket change were few and far between . By the mid 70's air travel between the two coast was more affordable  to the middle class.  By that time San Francisco  mint wasn't  minting coins for circulation . Thus an S cent or nickel found on the East coast or heartland were slim to none.Now as a paper  boy whom served as well collected collected for the paper , my collection  bag was nothing but silver coins ,.10,.25,.50 as well as buffalo and silver war era nickels. The wad of notes silver certificates , red seal U.S. bank notes,mostly 2 and 5's. However  by late 68 the silver dried up. So 4 years after the clad coinage  made its  debut finding  silver coins in change or collection  for the news paper  was just about done.What was do able  during this period  was filling  your Whitman  folders. Cents book 1 was do able except for keys, Jefferson  nickels except for a 50 D , Mercury  dimes again except key dates. Roosevelt  easy  to  complete .  As well as Franklin  half's . And again  S mint marks you had to buy at your LCS, but Philadelphia  and Denver  were obtainable  in pocket change.[/QUOTE]