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Message:: [QUOTE="littlehugger, post: 3597773, member: 58633"]You can mostly fill your coin albums from rolls.  Nickels especiallry. They did not change for decades, and are not greatly popular. I was able to almost completely fill my Dansco with rolls. Even a 50D! I did buy a war nickel set and a set of proofs. But, you can still find tons of cents, dimes and quarters in change. I recently found a bicentennial quarter in change. 43 years old. Also, its possible to buy recent coins in high grade sets for very reasonable prices. Because they were minted in such huge quantities, have little metal either.  Nor do coins circulate much anymore. I save my change in a jar, because it has such low value its annoying to carry any useful amount. So, especially with cents, its not hard to find nice examples that are decades old. Last, some have metal value. Old cents are worth more than a cent for their copper. Despite their silver color, nickels are 75% copper.  New cents are pot metal and essentially worthless. One day they will stop making them. But people will still collect them. If they ever demonetize cents, everyone and his dog will rush to sell. Which will depress the price. But, there are people out there making a living selling wheats and copper memorial cents. Not to mention, those zinc cents are notorious for problems. You throw back 2000 of them for $20 bucks, and your kids make a living selling them.  Heck, because of their low actual metal value, you may be able to buy them in bulk for less than one cent each. Once its demonetized. I remember silver and copper coins. If I had invested $10,000 then, it would be worth 10 times that in metal value alone. Far more if sold numismatically. Hmm? I think I might go out and drop some money on change![/QUOTE]

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