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    Coin shortage?

    I have just started spending the Dollar and Half Dollar coins that I hoarded in early March before the lock down. $200 in $1 and $100 in 50c. It's...
    Post by: nickelsorter2017, Jul 14, 2020 in forum: Coin Roll Hunting
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    500+ Nickel boxes in 365 days! All stats updated daily!

    I'd have to reveal that S dated Buffalo right away. Could be the 13S type 2, the only 1 I'm missing acid treated (I bought them 25 cents each...
    Post by: nickelsorter2017, Jan 23, 2020 in forum: Coin Roll Hunting
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    Meaningful Nickel stats suggestion

    I just happened to be on. Doesn't happen very often. Roll searching is like fishing. Fishermen never give up the hot spot of the season. Roll...
    Post by: nickelsorter2017, Jan 12, 2020 in forum: Coin Roll Hunting
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    Roll-searchers, post your results!

    I see one possible silver Mexican Peso. The Greek coins are common. I do like those old coin wrappers. I saved a few for history.
    Post by: nickelsorter2017, Dec 2, 2019 in forum: Coin Roll Hunting
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    500+ Nickel boxes in 365 days! All stats updated daily!

    Last summer I bought some dateless from a dealer for 25 cents each. After acid treatment on the mintmark area, I found a type 1 D & S! For 25...
    Post by: nickelsorter2017, Nov 18, 2019 in forum: Coin Roll Hunting
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    500+ Nickel boxes in 365 days! All stats updated daily!

    I haven't searched any boxes of nickels since May. I continue to marvel at the number of better dates being found and the higher than average...
    Post by: nickelsorter2017, Nov 16, 2019 in forum: Coin Roll Hunting
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    1913 bufflo nickle does it look like a proof or polished

    In what world would anybody believe that the coin might have been a circulated proof? It is heavily worn and almost dateless. If you took a proof...
    Post by: nickelsorter2017, Nov 16, 2019 in forum: Coin Roll Hunting
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    500+ Nickel boxes in 365 days! All stats updated daily!

    It's fun searching nickels. Nobody collects them now and the young people think that buffalos and v-nicks are worthless foreign money. Still,...
    Post by: nickelsorter2017, Oct 21, 2019 in forum: Coin Roll Hunting
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    1973 S lincoln penny

    I am not a US coin dealer. I can objectively respond. The current Lincoln cents, Jefferson nickels and Roosevelt dimes have no long term...
    Post by: nickelsorter2017, Jun 23, 2019 in forum: Coin Roll Hunting
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    Unusual penny box find. 1940 German 5 Pfennig. Berlin mint mark.

    Don't expect to see 'Hitler money'. Sad thing is... it's common in circulated grade and can be bought for 25 cents or so. Still, I'd like to find...
    Post by: nickelsorter2017, Apr 20, 2019 in forum: Coin Roll Hunting
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    After $100.00 dollars worth . . .

    You are not wrong, but there's more to the story. In the early 1960s, roll and bag "collecting" started, due to the low purchasing power of 1 and...
    Post by: nickelsorter2017, Apr 9, 2019 in forum: Coin Roll Hunting
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    Roll-searchers, post your results!

    Trivia - when I was a kid, they sold "lucky pennies" in a plastic bubble. They were dated 1969 (Philadelphia mint). Turns out, that 1969 was a...
    Post by: nickelsorter2017, Mar 31, 2019 in forum: Coin Roll Hunting
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    Roll-searchers, post your results!

    This doesn't diminish your find, and they're fun to get, but... there's a reason people didn't collect $20 bills in 1934. With purchasing power...
    Post by: nickelsorter2017, Mar 29, 2019 in forum: Coin Roll Hunting
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    Swollen letters in AMERICA 1982 Lincoln

    Due to inflation, coins have lost nearly all of their original purchasing power. One cents and five cents coins have been commercially useless for...
    Post by: nickelsorter2017, Feb 20, 2019 in forum: Coin Roll Hunting
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    Roll-searchers, post your results!

    Haven't been reporting my results the last few months. Got $20 in nickels on Valentine's Day. 6 pre-1960s and 10 buffalo nickels all in one roll!...
    Post by: nickelsorter2017, Feb 15, 2019 in forum: Coin Roll Hunting