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So I was tired of nickels dimes and halves, so I decided to try my luck with quarters because why not. Anything I should look out for?

 

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Question first. Does anyone else average at least one 1964 in each nickel roll? Acetone works on pennies as long as there isn't anything too wrong to start with. They don't hold a candle to a properly toned example but that's not always available.
Still find a gem of a coin every now and then.
Haven't seen a wheat in quite a while.
Haven't found a better nickel recently.

 

Yes! I pull 64 nickels constantly. And not quite as often, but still very frequently I get the 65 dime.

 

I get those stupid 1959 pennies.

 

There were over 2.8 billion (yes Billion with a B) nickels minted between Philly and Denver in 1964, far and away the most ever produced in the history of the US Mint. That is why they turn up so frequently.
If you look at quarter and dime mintages from the early 60s-64 they also rapidly increase as well. People were pulling coin out of circulation due to silver's increasing value and the Mint initially responded by minting more and more coins. When they realized this was a losing proposition they changed the composition to CuNi clad and the problem was fixed.
The remainder of the pre-65 silver dimes and quarters were quickly plucked from circulation, but the 1964 nickels, which have no added intrinsic value, have been swirling around in circulation ever since.
To fully grasp how many nickels were minted in 1964 as opposed to other years check this page out... http://coinmintages.com/jefferson-nickels-mintage/

 

My record for 1964 nickels in a machine-wrapped roll (where the distribution of coins should be totally random) is 8.

I know that lots of 1964 dimes and quarters were minted to counter hoarding, but why the nickels too? To allow stores and banks to have *some* change, any change, on hand?

 

2x 64 in the last roll I did.
But I'm losing the urge to hunt.
Last several rolls gave nothing.

 

You gotta work your way through the slumps to get to the good stuff.

 

Are you cherry picking or going for dates? Skip the 64s and just hunt for pre64 if it's the older stuff you're hoarding. Like @Mad Stax said there were billions of them minted. If any earlier date will have the lowest value it will be them. I save 60 and older and hunt through the later stuff for errors and nice strikes with little show of circulation. To each his own though. You'll get past the bump.

 

I buy boxes of Halves every month. Only one bank in town actually keeps them in stock.

 

That's my assumption. The only other explanation would be that they were oblivious to why coins were disappearing from circulation and decided to just make more of every denomination, but I find that highly unlikely.

 

I ain't gonna stop searching. But I get very few pre 60 nickels.
I'm looking first at date. If the coin is so ugly I can't read the date it gets returned to circulation. The really nice ones get set aside so I can compare them to what I have.
It's getting real tough to find a better nickel.
Pennies the same but it's a little more common to find a better penny. Perhaps I'll be able to see well enough to go look at some more coins before too long.

 

Too busy last week to photo my finds. Searched 17 boxes last week, just trying to push through the dry spell.
Found just at three ounces.

3-1964s
12-1966-1969
1-1976S silver
1-1987D

I also promised to show you all the 87s I have found this year searching so here you go


4-87P
13-87D
4-87S

Not sure why I seem to find so many 1987s, usually I find them in a mix of silvers but some time just by themselves. They are almost as exciting to find as a 40%

 

$21.50 CWR Cents: 44, 45-D, 51-D, 52-D, 56, 57-D, and two clad dimes

And then some interesting things started happening...

$96 CWR Nickels:
- 1930s - 6, including the 38-S and 39-S that finished my circulating set
- 1940s - 50, including 13 war nickels
- 1950s - 49

$100 CWR Dimes - 70 silver Roosies and 1 Mercury came out of 11 rolls

Roll 1: 1963
Roll 2: 1951-S, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1955-S, 1959, 1959
Roll 3: 1946, 1947-D, 1948-D, 1951-D, 1954-S, 1957, 1959, 1960-D
Roll 4: 1946-D, 1947-S, 1949-S, 1952-S, 1953-D, 1956-D, 1960, 1962-D
Roll 5: 1946-S, 1951, 1954-D, 1958, 1959-D, 1963-D, 1963-D, 1964
Roll 6: 1954, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961-D, 1964-D
Roll 7: 1947, 1958-D, 1960-D, 1964-D, 1964
Roll 8: 1950, 1953-S, 1953-D, 1957-D, 1959, 1961, 1964
Roll 9: 1948-D, 1950-S, 1950, 1953-D, 1953, 1962, 1963
Roll 10: 1946, 1948-S, 1948, 1949, 1950-D, 1962-D
Roll 11: 1943-S, 1949-D, 1950-D, 1952, 1953-S, 1955, 1955-D, 1957

It's awfully hard not to like 5.8 ozt of silver coin for the low, low price of $7.70.

Of course my only regret was I wasn't able to get to the bank this morning to clean them out of CWR dimes and nickels!

 

That is amazing...I really hope for just one score like that at some point.

 

Box of quarters- 1 Canadian, 1 Filipino, and one New Jersey quarter that was so greased its "W Jers"

 

I went to both banks this morning splitting roughly in half my rolls. Got all CWR rolls. Found a better 70D penny.
Found a 41S nickel. Gonna do a few more rolls as the day goes on. But gonna save enough to get me through tomorrow.

 

Just got a war nickel. 1943P in pretty good shape but stained.
It's getting an Acetone bath just now.

 

Very nice...I just did $8 nickels...earliest 46. $30 halves...nothing other than a couple of hole fillers.

 

Congrats that's a great haul!

I just hope reading that rubs a little luck off for these two boxes of halves I have.