This collection is special since almost EVERY coin
from 1938 to 1964 was collected by my father from his
pocket change. He stopped collecting nickels in 1964
but he had an old Whitman folder almost 100% complete
through 1964. I bought a Dansco
album that runs through 2005, the year he died, and
decided to fill in the few missing coins prior to 1964
and get as many as possible from circulation to complete
1965 through 2005.
Noodling for nickels in rolls and from change drawers
around town was fun and very productive because there
aren't any real rarities from 1965 to 2005. I did find
a 1972 S proof in circulation in the process, and the
very last coin to complete the collection was a 2004 D
Peace Pipes nickel. It's a little rough looking, but
I got it in change from the liquor store. Dad would
have liked that!
I switched out the last page with a Dansco 21mm blank
page to minimize the empty ports and used scrap pieces
of the outer "pleather" from a scrap Dansco
page to block out unused ports.
My son is collecting the new design Jefferson Nickles starting with 2006, collected from circulation, in a Dansco album.
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