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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stldanceartist, post: 2876920, member: 13307&quot;]If one intends to collect US Coins by series, and fill out albums, my recommendations are as such:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) Jefferson Nickels.&nbsp; What other US series (besides the ones below) can you very often put together a complete set relying solely on bank rolls/pocket change?&nbsp; I&#039;ll agree that finding a 1950 D or 1939 D will be a challenge this way...but you can walk into a coin shop and finish off that set for $5-10.&nbsp; Can&#039;t do that with Lincoln Wheat Cents.&nbsp; Can&#039;t do that with Mercury Dimes, or Washington Quarters.&nbsp; Or anything older.&nbsp; As anyone who collects this series can tell you - it&#039;s pretty easy to find a circulated example of each date.&nbsp; It&#039;s a bit more difficult to find UNC examples of each date, but by no means difficult and by no means expensive.&nbsp; Trying to find gems?&nbsp; Good. Luck.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) Kennedy Half Dollars.&nbsp; Again, you can fill out 99% of a set (maybe not the 1970 D and definitely not the 1998 S SP/Matte) from bank rolls/pocket change.&nbsp; Even the 2002-present NIFC coins can be found in bank rolls.</p><p><br /></p><p>3) Eisenhower Dollars.&nbsp; Finding them at banks will be kind of hit/miss, and you&#039;ll hardly ever get them in pocket change, but try to tell me you couldn&#039;t find every single date of these readily available at most LCS.&nbsp; And generally very inexpensive.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I&#039;m getting at here is that there are long-running series (like Jeffersons) that haven&#039;t had their prices run up into the stratosphere like Wheat Cents, Morgan Dollars, Buffalo Nickels, etc.&nbsp; For someone learning how to buy/sell, how to grade, how to look for varieties, you&#039;re not throwing huge chunks of cash at coins that may be huge mistakes.&nbsp; You can spend your money on books, supplies, etc.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, if you want to include the rest of the world, there are so many gorgeous world coins out there to collect - low mintages, silver, different themes, varieties - so if you intend to do it piecemeal (or opportunistically, like I describe my &quot;collection&quot;) this is a great option.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are trying to &quot;get in on the ground floor&quot; on something that will skyrocket in value some day, good luck.&nbsp; Everyone has their own little hoard of coins they swear will be worth more <i>someday</i> - for me a couple examples are 1945 S &quot;Micro S&quot; Mercury Dimes and 1937S/1955D Washington Quarters - so I say pick something and go with it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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