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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Christobal, post: 2716053, member: 74392&quot;]I started a nickel book about 4 years ago and filled most of it from circulation.&nbsp; The handful of coins I bought were bargain bin finds, mostly S proofs and mirror proofs.&nbsp; I&#039;ve only found 7 or 8 S proof nickels in that time and twice it was a duplicate date.&nbsp; My 50-D I found.</p><p><br /></p><p>The missing slots were all mint mark coins, silver and 38-39.&nbsp; So I started a 2nd book last fall, and have tubes of nice overflows.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nickels are fun.</p><p><br /></p><p>My pennies collection started when I was 8.&nbsp; Still plugging slots.&nbsp; I have a 2nd book for those too.&nbsp; Actually I have a book for each US coin that&#039;s in circulation and second collections for halves and quarters too.&nbsp; But mostly I hunt pennies and nickels.&nbsp; Quarters and dimes are boring because of the silver cut off.&nbsp; Dollars were fun for a while and halves too, because of the NIFC years.&nbsp; But those are hard to search by the individual bank roll and buying boxes ties up a lot of money.&nbsp; I have bought boxes of halves and quarters and dimes on occasion, but not dollar coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rare coins, like Ikes and silver whatever get collected too, but they aren&#039;t going to turn up often.&nbsp; I have filled Ikes in circulated condition and have bought some of the proofs, but some of my Ikes are pretty beat up.&nbsp; Finding face value upgrades is a challenge.&nbsp; So, as I can, I keep asking for them.&nbsp;&nbsp; I recently scored a handful of AU Ike bicents at a local bank.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, if anyone wants to trade AU Ikes, to upgrade our collections, I&#039;m down for that.&nbsp; I have a couple extra of those bicentennials.&nbsp; They are clean and sharp, but just a tad yellowed.&nbsp; I&#039;d like to swap for other year AUs.&nbsp; We can swap photos first.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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