Currently, the United States Mint produces only four denominations of coin that the general public would probably consider “the usual,” or the workhorse coins that do virtually all the work of making change. They are the cent, the nickel, the dime and the quarter. Yes, there are plenty of businesses that will take a half dollar or a dollar coin, and even some machines that will take a one-dollar coin. But for the most part, it’s only four coins that do the work. And only one of them gets to claim the longest stretch: our 5-cent piece. Let’s bounce through the various series and see what sort of type set of them a person might be able to put together.
The Jefferson Nickel
Our current nickels are about as common as common gets. Issued for more than eighty years, the Jefferson nickel design was considered a
