First War Nickel

I picked up my first war nickel this week. Its a pretty coin, although you'd never know it from the photograph.

Check out the details!

 

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Pretty good.
You can see the door and windows in the portico.
Don't buy a War Nickel if you can't see them.

 

thanks for the tip! I wish I could photo the toning

 

I wouldn't mind collecting a few war nickels. Actually found one in circulation yesterday was excited!

 

that's cool. I haven't seen one in quite a while.

This is a photo of all the coins I got yesterday together.

 

I have the rest of the day off so I think I'm going to hit up a few coin shops, i need the steel pennies, I always need a good deal on some "barbras" and whatever catches my eye, maybe a war nickel.

 

Looks good, i'm jealous! :smile

 

very nice, i found a 43 p in circulation yesturday

 

That is pretty cool. I haven't seen one in a long time. But I can show you my SBA if you want to see it!

Ruben

 

i found a 79 SBA yesturday at work but didn't buy it, i shouldve, i dont own one haha

 

it has to be a good one...

 

Hey Ruben I can't see the picture .
rzage

 

Gees, that is the first one you have ever gotten? I can usually turn up one or two of them in boxes of $100 worth of nickels.

 

serious?

http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/01142009/

 

yeah - I aint going through boxes of nickels

 

Nice coin, nice tone, if you're going to buy Unc's without full steps make sure you look for full strikes. There are many dates where full steps are extremely difficult to find and as long as you stick with full strikes you won't go wrong.

 

This may be a matter of semantics, but I would think that a Jeff without full steps could not be a full strike.
If you can't find/afford "full steps", at least make sure the door and windows in the portico show well.

 

well this one has almost no steps, but I think it is die wear on not a strike issue. It seems well struck. It looks to me like there were no steps on the dye.

Ruben

 

Coins dated up to 1971 I would buy specimens with crisp sharp details before I bought one with full steps though this could be argued. A prime example would be the 1954S which was labeled the “King” because it was/is so hard to find in full steps. The problem with this coin is, when you do find a coin with full steps the majority of the time the coin has no details but yet a brilliantly struck coin with crisp sharp details won’t have steps. There were years which had a higher success rate for coins showing "full steps" a prime example is the 1943D. It would seem if you had a coin without full steps your coin would be a rarity; one not one worth collecting for the investment. Flip the coin and if you can find a 1960D with great details it could be worth a bundle. Check the value at PCGS for a MS65 its worth $30.00 and for a MS66 it's worth $900.00. To me that's a lot of room to work with when looking for details in a coin. To give you an idea just how hard it is to find good examples of certain date Jefferson nickels, “The Corso Collection” which is one of the finest Jefferson nickel collections known has a 1960D MS66. PCGS doesn't even list the coin in full step. So my friend, when you look at your next nickel look for details in the pre 70 coins and if you are looking at coins later in date, coins minted from the 90's up should all have 6steps. An interesting note: PCGS only defines coins as having FS or NOT having FS. Look at some slabbed coins to see if the pre 80's FS coin has 5 or 6 full steps. If you find one with 6 full steps you might have found a winner! Remember, not all dates are created equally. Buy the strike not the coin.

Again Rubin, NICE COIN for your first. I would say Choice or better.