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Coin Collection Grid for Jefferson Nickels

By Jacci Howard Bear, About.com

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Add Filled Boxes to 72 Squares

72 squares

Each nickel will have its own blue box.

Graphic © J. Bear
Create a box slightly smaller than 1" square and duplicate it 72 times. For your layout you'll put 70 squares in 7 rows plus an additional square at the top of the first and last columns (for 1938 and 1939 nickels).

Alternatively, you could make all the boxes exactly 1" square and leave no space between squares -- using different colors for each decade, a checkerboard color scheme, or other color patterns for the boxes. Or, instead of boxes, draw horizontal and vertical lines over the non-printing guidelines. Try different line widths or patterns (dotted, dashed) or change the colors of your lines.

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