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Jefferson nickels have been minted since 1938. That's approaching 80 years! A set that covers so many years has a lot to offer a collector.
In over fifty years of collecting, I've made my share of finds. When I began my interest in coins, silver coins were still found in change. Mercury dimes, Buffalo nickels, Standing Liberty quarters, and lots of wheat back cents could be seen often.
When I began research for my book, "United States Clad Coinage," I realized that some recent dates did not show up in circulation. There were billions of 1965, 1966, and 1967 dated dimes and quarters, but afterward, the production slowed down a bit. No one cared about clad coins in change, since they were not silver. Long before the Statehood Quarters, I tried to encourage collecting clads out of circulation for the fun of it.