Nickel Help

[urbss]

I am confused and hope that someone can help me out.

I used to collect coins when I was a kid, and had one of the cheaper ?folder? style coin holders. I had every Jefferson nickel up to about 1983. I decided that I wanted to continue this collection to the current dates and bought myself a new Whitman Album for the nickels.

My confusion started when I was transferring nickels from the folder to the album and I got to the 1971 nickels. In my new albums there is a slot for 1971-S. Actually there is a slot for all of the Sacramento minted nickels from 1971 until 2000.

I thought that these S marked nickels were only available in proofs. (Maybe I?m wrong about that). If that is the case though, how would I ever be able to fill all of the slots in my album?

Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

Thanks,
Tom

 

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[JakePhelps]

Yep, they are proofs. Except for 1969 and 1970, those had S mintmarks and were not proofs.

 

[Klaatu]

The S mintmark is for San Francisco, not Sacramento. Sacramento has never had a mint.

Human nature dictates that the holes for those coins need to be filled but I would not recommend putting proof coins in a coin folder as they will surely be damaged.