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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 145443, member: 68&quot;]If you&#039;re having fun collecting them then by all means do it.&nbsp; There are lots of different ways to do this so that they are fun.&nbsp; As to future value, you&#039;re probably doing it backward.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>People saved rolls and bags of nickels during the entire run.&nbsp; Collecting from pocket change was popular during the entire run though before 1945 there were relatively few collecting nickels due to high face value.&nbsp; This means there are millions of BU and millions of high circulated grade nickel of all the pre-1965 dates.&nbsp; It&#039;s when you get after 1965 that most people quit saving any new coins.&nbsp; You can find ten old Jefferson collections for each modern Jefferson collections.&nbsp; This ratio is even higher for other denominations.&nbsp; Not only weren&#039;t many of these newer coins saved in unc but almost none have been saved in XF or VF.&nbsp; Soon all these coins are likely to be melted since they contain 8c worth of metal in each one leaving very few of the late date coins in any grade.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The best bet for making a profit is to save the best coins of each date you can find.&nbsp; Look for nice attractive coins with nice even wear.&nbsp; Also save all the better varieties you can find.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The best bet for having fun is whatever you want it to be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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