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@nickelsorter2017 Thanks for the info! I am clueless right now as to what to hang onto and was wondering if we were getting average results or not. My Son is really into the Nickels so we will probably stay on them for awhile. We have gone through other boxes but this is the first time I recorded the stats. We have been just throwing all the older years into a bin and now we are going to try organizing them better. Did you see the 1940 I posted earlier on this page?

 

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Not TMI for me. I love roll searching for nickels.

Just as way of comparison, I just finished nickel box #16. I hold onto anything older than '60....

30's: 1939
40's CU-NI: 40, 41, 42, 46d, 46s, 47x3, 49s (The first for this date/mint)
40's AG: none
50's: 52, 52d, 54d, 55d, 57d, 58dx4

Nothing exciting. However, in the 3rd to last roll, a nice 90s impaired proof popped out which was unexpected and always nice to find.

Overall, the 57d/58d/59d are, as would be expected, the most common dates I find. They are all three tied for the highest percentage. But in second place is, surprisingly, the 1940. For some reason, I seem to find 1 or more of this date in each box I search.

 

@nickelsorter2017 I decided about a year ago I have enough nickels set aside, so now I’m focused on halves. I kept all pre 60 nickels. In my area these years were becoming more rare with time. Nickels are the most fun imo, though I enjoy the halves, too.

Forgot to mention a teller at one bank yesterday offered to order halves for me, so I placed an order. They also said they would try to get large dollars, but I won’t hold my breath. It was nice of them to offer.

 

Ahem...

From May 2013:

Silver was around $22.50 at the time.

From January 2018, six months ago:

Silver in December 2017 briefly dipped almost as low as it is today.

Not to pick on you or the one poster I quoted twice, this is a very common sentiment -- but it's a dangerous one.

 

Trying to determine why this has deviated into a Silver bullion conversation... I haven’t bought silver in over two year above face value of half dollars....

 

I sure do like nickels
- SlipperySocks Junior

 

Think he was just trying to clarify my amazement with that many dollars worth. I did miss the 2013 part.

 

One lonely 1968-D Kennedy broke up my 4 box skunk streak. I did find a few NIFCs, a 1986-D State of Liberty Commemorative Clad (my 2nd in the last month), a 1974-D DDO, and a stickered Donald Trump 45th Presdident (MAGA!). The sticker is coming off in a few places. Looks like it might be a decent 2016 if I can figure out how to get the rest of the sticker off without harming the coin. Has anybody tried this yet? Acetone? I also found a lot of 80's and 90's decade Philly halves (some of the better ones are really nice and will be upgrades for my albums), very unusual down here in the Lone Star State. These boxes must be some sort of cross pollination event from back east. More boxes to arrive next week as I have increased my orders from several banks. Hope the silver starts to flow again.....

 

Yes... Acetone.

 

Ah, ok

 

That’s the ticket the more dirt you shovel through the odds increase, just means more work for a silver fix. Go get em Tex!

 

I am about halfway through my first nickel box search and this morning I found this 1998-P Jefferson Nickel with an outstanding reverse die rotation! My Rota-Flip measures it as a 145° rotation.

This was really exciting to find. I've looked for die rotations for YEARS when searching Lincoln Cents.....all to no avail. Then I crack my FIRST box of Jeffs and find one halfway into it. Hilarious!

So, can anyone give me some idea of what you think it would grade and value out as? Photograde seems to indicate an XF-45 grade, but I'm not sure how to value a circulated error of this type.

 

Another view of the error....

 

It's my second non-silver week in a row after searching $120 CWR dimes and $90 CWR nickels.

$20 CWR cents brought some more interesting results when one of the rolls dropped 30 wheats and a 1966 w/ JKF counter stamp. Best find of this week was the 2 scurvy steel cents.

 

Thanks @jensenbay
The coin had some damage under the sticker, but the acetone did get the sticker off. I had to soak it a long time (overnight) before the sticker finally came off.

 

What the HECK? Can your bank order IKE's all the time or is this something special? I would love to get ahold of even a roll at the bank. I got 10 of them once and thought it was special!!!

 

Bambam, one of the head tellers at one of my bank branches knows who to contact at the local coin vault to place an order for large dollar coins. This head teller occasionally contacts the coin vault via email (I think she knows her contact person at the coin vault well enough that she texts them, because she slipped up once when she was chatting with me and said she would "text one of my friends at XXX..Oh, I mean email one of my friends at XXX") to request large dollars. No matter how she contacts the person at the coin vault, she has been able to get me hundreds of Ikes several times so far. Fingers crossed this will continue. She tries to place an Ike order every 3 months or so. She is very friendly, helpful, and appears happy in her position at the bank, so she'll hopefully stay there awhile

Of course, she also orders me halves each week...She's a peach!

 

3 boxes dimes. 2 loose halves

 

10,000 nickels searched

26 Buffalo nickels (1x1913-S Type 1, 1x1913-P Type 2 both photographed)
2 Liberty nickels
38 silver nickels
Large bag of 38-50s
4x20 Rappen
1x20 Pence
3x Canadian nickels
2x slightly off center Jefferson’s
1x MAD obverse Jefferson

 

@Seattlite86 you've done very well given only 5 nickel boxes!