How old does Tom have to be?

How old does a Jefferson Nickel have to be before you pull it out of circulation?

 

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1945

 

20 years older than your birth year.

 

I'd go broke keeping all nickels from 76 and earlier

 

Ahh, a youngster! Stay off my lawn!

 

actually hoarding every nickel you could get is much more likely to show a profit in say 5 years than buying numismatic coins. I could see them trading for double face value ( like copper pennies do) even if you can't legally melt them. The nickel has to change metals soon.

 

That's no fun though! I'd rather spend all my money on old ones.

 

I'm not a nickel hoarder... so I search nickels like any other coins, look for keys and errors, and pull any silver alloy war nickels found, no matter how beat they look:

 

Other than silver, mintmarked 38s and 39s and the 50-D, I can't imagine the nickle being worth more than 6 cents. Of course when you've been collecting close to 50 years, you lose sight of coin scarcity for coins minted in your own lifetime

 

That makes it hard for me. I wouldn't get to keep any.

 

Uh oh, time to start pulling buffalos.

 

lol.

 

For me it's 1959. Ever since I was a kid that has seemed "old." I know they may not be worth any more but I still save those.

 

This is one of the reasons I search Jeffersons. Along with war nickels.

 

You need to use more staples and get them closer to the coin !

 

I don't like my coins to be able to move in their holders!

 

I have yet to find a Jefferson nickel with orange arrows on it.

 

They are VERY rare. That's only my 3rd one found in the wild.

Sorry, this was the only picture I had of this coin on my computer, and the arrows were to show the die crack in a different post.

 

Old enough to have a buffalo on it. I could probably link this thread with the other about least favorite set.

 

In the last 2-3 years, I've come across these two (barely visible dates) 1920 buffalo nickels in rolls of nickels bought from my bank: