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Looking at my numismatic life lasting over 40 years, I have completed a number of sets including Franklin Half Dollars and Peace Dollars. However, there is one folder that I have had since I started collecting coins that I never completed, the Lincoln Cent 1909 – 1940 folder. In The […]

One Lincoln Cent Hole to Fill

May 13, 2021 in Coin Sets / My Collection tagged Lincoln Cents / Wheat Cents by Kevin

On April 10, 2021, my friend and I did the unthinkable. We drove two and a half hours to Manchester, NH to attend a Coin Show. It had been two years since we went to one, and we had planned on going to this one in April 2020. Of course, […]

Return to the Coin Show

May 8, 2021 in My Collection / Research tagged Coin Shows / Lincoln Cents / Walking Liberty Half Dollars by Kevin

It’s March 2020, and if you’re like me, you’ve been told to stay home until further notice. The world is going through a pandemic that hasn’t been seen in our lifetime. States are closing borders and people are getting sick and losing their jobs. I’ve been lucky so far as […]

Coin Collector Stuck At Home

April 1, 2020 in Coin Sets / My Collection tagged America the Beautiful Quarters / Coin Folders / Jefferson Nickels / Lincoln Cents / State Quarters by Kevin

Previously, I purchased cent and nickel rolls from the bank looking for wheat cents and silver nickels. This time, I thought I would do more hunting by purchasing quarter rolls. Of course, I’m looking for silver quarters, but now, I also want to find West Point quarters from 2019 and […]

Coin Roll Hunters 3

March 9, 2020 in Coin Sets / Investing / My Collection tagged America the Beautiful Quarters / Coin Rolls / Jefferson Nickels / Lincoln Cents / Washington Quarters by Kevin

A while back, I spoke about building a Wartime Nickel Set where every nickel was graded Mint State 67. Back in the late 1990s, I started purchasing them between EBay and Coin Shows. Each of them was graded and slabbed by NGC. I’ll explain about slabbed coins in a bit. […]

A Slabbed Coin Album

February 25, 2020 in Coin Sets / My Collection tagged Coin Albums / Jefferson Nickels / Slabbed Coins / Walking Liberty Half Dollars by Kevin

There’s nothing more satisfying to a coin collector than finishing up a coin folder. That was true 40 years ago when my friend Bob and I would go through our Whitman folders and find empty holes that we wanted to fill. Some of them were easy to complete. That includes […]

Coin Collectors Filling Holes

February 9, 2020 in Coin Sets / My Collection tagged Coin Folders / Lincoln Cents by Kevin