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Haha X2.

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its part of the hobby to learn how to do it, although I'd skip Jefferson nickels and do something more spectacular like 3 cents pieces, Half Cents, Seated Dimes or some such.

 

Here's one of my war nickels with interesting wood-grain-esque toning. Got several more like this. Really quite beautiful. War nickels are some of my favorite "modern" pieces.

 

Just finished documenting my Jefferson album. It's a large 3-ring binder with eleven 20 pocket BCW pages plus two full pages of extras.

 

Very nice collection & thanks for sharing it!

 

I like Jeff's too, of all of the dead president coins, I like it the most. At one time, in the 90's, I started putting together a BU roll set of them. I got a few oddball rolls, and 38 up til the war nickels, then lost interest. Up until that time that roll of 39d's was the most I had ever spent on a coin purchase..

Btw a big reason I lost interest is these BU rolls, even in the 90's, were harder to find than you think. I think the 38s took me months to find a decent roll. I was lucky in that one dealer had a couple of the 39's when I was looking from an old holding. Even coins like 48's and the like are just darn hard to find rolls of 20 years ago, and I imagine much harder today. About the only roll its easy to find is the 50d.

 

I'd pay real good money for an original bank roll of war nickels. Problem is finding them.

 

They used to be out there. I cannot remember the date, but one is scarcer, but not the one you would think, (meaning the scarcer one in circulated condition). Sorry my memory is not great since its been a while with US coins.

 

Found some.

http://images.goldbergauctions.com/php/lot_auc.php?site=1&sale=69&lot=1097&lang=1

 

1,000 dollars opening bid? my god

 

1,000 dollars opening bid? my god

 

That is nearly $400 worth of silver today, not even talking about the scarcity of BU rolls like this. I would never say $1000 opening bid is out of line for those rolls.

 

I'm gonna throw out a $1k bid. I can't afford it but if I can win 'em for $1k, I can flip 'em on ebay for well more than that.

 

I would be all over that if I could.

 

BU's from original rolls will fetch at least $5 each, so if we use that number and take 5x40x6 we're looking at $1200 not including premiums for the roll itself or higher-end FS coins... if you were to break the rolls apart. I'd never do that.

 

Man it would be hard to not bust them open.

 

Just think about throwing away a $1k coin if you did, cause that's basically what you'd be doing.

 

That's why you buy and just never sell. I have never looked at my rolls, I simply took them out of paper and put them in plastic. I see now there are a bunch of varieties listed, (maybe the doubled monticello was known then, but I never looked), but I don't care since I don't sell.