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That's what I figure for the nickels as well, either the 42P because I'm on the east coast or the 43S because of their 9 figure mintage.
That's awesome you found those depression era cents. That's always been a goal of mine since I began collecting, to find any depression era US coin in the wild... the search continues.

 

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Take a very close look to make sure it isn't the overdate DDO! They're very rare (which is why they're so expensive), but they definitely turn up with restored dates.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1916-Double...-Detail-Date-Acid-Treated-FS101-/162437721778

ANACS AG3, spot-restored date, ugly as sin, bid up to $576.66!

 

Oh yeah, I checked for that. It isn't, unfortunately. I've found a few other "normal" 1916 Ps in the wild too.

 

I've actually amassed over a roll of 1943-Ss over the years (and that's with selling several on eBay in sets), and almost a roll in my current CRH run... They are actually even more common out here than the 1943-P (the only other War Nickel I have amassed more than a roll of). The 1951-S is tough too, but is findable with some perseverance.

 

I'm plugging away on pennies. I'm four coins from a 1975 to 2013 Harris folder.

 

I started a nickel book about 4 years ago and filled most of it from circulation. The handful of coins I bought were bargain bin finds, mostly S proofs and mirror proofs. I've only found 7 or 8 S proof nickels in that time and twice it was a duplicate date. My 50-D I found.

The missing slots were all mint mark coins, silver and 38-39. So I started a 2nd book last fall, and have tubes of nice overflows.

Nickels are fun.

My pennies collection started when I was 8. Still plugging slots. I have a 2nd book for those too. Actually I have a book for each US coin that's in circulation and second collections for halves and quarters too. But mostly I hunt pennies and nickels. Quarters and dimes are boring because of the silver cut off. Dollars were fun for a while and halves too, because of the NIFC years. But those are hard to search by the individual bank roll and buying boxes ties up a lot of money. I have bought boxes of halves and quarters and dimes on occasion, but not dollar coins.

Rare coins, like Ikes and silver whatever get collected too, but they aren't going to turn up often. I have filled Ikes in circulated condition and have bought some of the proofs, but some of my Ikes are pretty beat up. Finding face value upgrades is a challenge. So, as I can, I keep asking for them. I recently scored a handful of AU Ike bicents at a local bank.

By the way, if anyone wants to trade AU Ikes, to upgrade our collections, I'm down for that. I have a couple extra of those bicentennials. They are clean and sharp, but just a tad yellowed. I'd like to swap for other year AUs. We can swap photos first.

 

Sounds a lot like me... started collecting when I was 5... got into my Grandpa's "penny drawer" and pulled 163 wheats, the oldest being two 1937 coins.

Nickels indeed are the most fun as you never know what you're going to find. In the past week, I've found a V Nickel, several Buffalos, over a dozen War Nickels, a key date 1939-D, and a 1976-S proof. It also doesn't hurt that people aren't too aware of the War Nickels...

I bought a box of dimes the other week... it was like pulling teeth to go through it... I found all of one silver (1964-D) and two 2009-Ds, along with a few assorted BU coins from the 80s and 90s. I don't do boxes of Quarters for the same reason, but will buy some CRH of quarters on occasion when the tellers get them... I have much better luck finding silver dimes in the CoinStar machines... to date, I've found about 3/4 of a roll of them over the past year!

Halves are fun, but are so "hit and miss." I save the NIFCs, proofs, and of course the silver... I average about a silver per box - takes me a little less than 40 minutes to go through and re-roll a box typically. I've never done the dollar coins, nor do I think I will anytime soon.

 

Yeah the collection is getting large, but that's what you have to do when you've filled your principal books, buy more books.

I started in on dollar coins after I'd say 5 years into the presidents. I stumbled across a BU president coin and thought hey that's nice! At the time, I only would use a 20 to get subway tokens (all of the change was in dollar coins). I didn't start buying dollar rolls until maybe 3 years ago, when I got tired of not finding any mint mark coins at the subway...

 

What are you doing to get the presidential dollars that didn't get released to the public? I ask because I am thinking about going for that set.

 

My Dad got me started on pennies by buying a sack of them from the bank and buying me the Whitman paper folders. I hunted sporadically with dad until I got a job, then I quit. Didn't start back up until Dad did. That was in the middle of the statehood quarters. We worked together to fill a pair of books of those. Then after that, he bought himself a Dansco album for his pennies. I saw that, and it lit my fire to work on mine too. I've been collecting nonstop since then.

 

I buy all of the customer rolls my local banks get. Dad does too (in another state). Between the two of us, we'd managed to find many of them. Then I discovered that one local shop had uncirculated dollar coins right out of mint rolls for a buck and a half per coin (1.25 for me, because the owner likes me). I was able to get the newest coins that way. Then later, I found another shop that had uncirculated nifc president coins for $2 each, and I gave in and filled most of my remaining slots with those. I didn't upgrade any found coins though.

I'm still missing a few Native Americans and like 3 presidents. They may turn up in time.

 

NIFC by the way is such a rip off misnomer. Those coins do get released, just not in the year on the coin. Proofs seem to get released too. There are a lot of them, relatively, in circulation. I have found more than I can credit have come from busted mint sets... unless dealers are dumping them.

Coin shops are vanishing around here. Maybe dealer stocks are getting circulated. < shrugs >

 

My guess is that collectors buy bags or rolls from the mint to fill holes, don't want the rest and can't sell them for much, so they just take 'em to the bank for face value

 

That's a possibility, though I have to admit that among the items I sell on eBay, NIFC halves are most definitely amongst my top 5 most popular items - I have a hard time keeping several BU dates in stock.... In contrast, it's like pulling teeth trying to sell Indians, Wheats, V and Buffalo Nickels (both common date and rare/scarce dates) at anywhere near catalog value.

 

Based on my experience with banks, 80% of tellers are aware of silver coinage and look for it. Most of them are allowed to buy the silver coins at face value when few or no bank customers are around.

The number of banks with coin counters available to customers is very small now compared to a only a few years ago. Unfortunately, I believe this has increased the amount of silver sniping, and resulted in many more skunks for us compared to before coin counters were removed from banks.

I believe if silver sniping tellers didn't exist, then our silver finds would increase at least 10x in loose, CWRs, and MWRs.

Oh well, times change.

 

FYI: The 1916 P is NOT an overdate, that is the 1918/7 D, the 1916 is a doubled die on the date.

 

You're right, of course.

 

So far replaced coins in two or three flips. Earliest 1956D. Got a 2017D.
Got a 1961 Canada penny.

Have 11 rolls of pennies to go.

 

You'll have an easier time with a coin book.

They're spendy, but I really like Dansco books. This guy has good prices and I've bought many things from him. What I've done is buy the Dansco 8100 book, then added pages to the end for the shield coins to date. You can get real replacement pages with dates, or blank penny pages and write in your own.

http://desertdansco.com/items/dansco-coin-albums/list.htm

 

I knew what he meant.