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Message:: [QUOTE="ericl, post: 326494, member: 2697"]If you want to do a 20th century type set, there are several ways to do it. There are regular type coins and ciruculating commemeratives, First there are the "regular" coins. The "clad" coins began in 1965, and ended in 1998 as a series. So it's easy to get a penny, nickel, dime and quarter (eagleback) from ciruculation in a day. That's where you start. Then look for a half dollar, they're not common, but easilly findable. Susies (small dollar coins) can be found in circulation on occasion as well. Then you start looking for wheat cents, and bicentennials, which are still out there. Now things get hard. Eisonhower dollars are gone. Getting them in circulation is almost impossible. Now you have to go to stores and shows. Go to the shows and get the junk silver. Get the 1964 sliver, they're still cheap, the 1963 Franklins, which were made well into '64 are good to. Then there's the 1910s designs and Barbur stuff, get the junk silver for them and the silver dollars too. You can get the Ikes there as well. Finally,  there's the 1943 cents. Don't even think about gold. There you are. It could take a couple of weeks. Happy Hunting! (If you're rich and lazy, get the 1958, '69 and silver bicentennial proof sets, a 1979s susie and and 1973s Ike, which will get you 70% the way there, then get the rest in unc and declare the 1999 and 2000 state quarters to be 21st century coins)[/QUOTE]