1944 D War Nickel Found in Change!

On Saturday morning, I went to get breakfast. When I received my change from the cashier, one coin was a 2010-P Dime, and the other was a 1944-D War Nickel! That was the first War Nickel that I have ever found in change! Pics to follow later...

 

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I used to find 'em here and there in my dads change back in the early to mid '90's when I was a kid.

Nice find, congrats. The '43-D eludes me through several thousand in Nickels searched, ugh.

 

Just picked up the same in my wife's change, plus a 1943-S Washington quarter. I'm not quite sure why there seems to be so much silver floating around recently (four '64 Kennedy's plus sixteen 40% Kennedy's from $54 worth of halves from the local bank).

 

i was roll searching and i found a 39 and a 40

 

With the terrible economy, more people are spending old coins. Pick your hypothetical scenarios.... Timmy the Teenager wants a soda and can't find a job, so he steals from Dad's stash of old dimes. Tanya the Tweaker needs a fix, so she "borrows" her roommate's 1964 Kennedy halves. Some of these are quickly removed from circulation. Some stay in circulation long enough for you find them. I found a bunch...and I do mean a bunch...of mostly foreign coins in the reject bin of a Coinstar machine a few weeks ago. Within that batch was a 1960 Roosevelt dime. I gave it to my daughter who, at six, understands that silver is special.

 

Could be a combination of things--
People who were hoarding silver coins in the '60s have died and their heirs just think the silver coins are regular junk metal coins. (I've actually come across quite a few people on the Internet who refuse to believe that a pre-1965 dime, quarter or half has any value above its face value )
Kids raiding Dad's coin collection.
Thieves raiding Dad's coin collection.

 

I live in a tiny town, 1 food market, 1 drug store, 1 gas station and not much more but there are a bunch of war nickles around this week. My neighbor has found at least 10, a friend 6 and myself 2 in the last week. Love to find out who is cashing rolls in and head them off at the pass.

 

44-D is the only one that has escaped me from circulation so far. Haven't found any in a good 6 months or more. Silver in circulation in general has been staying on the down low lately.

 

I am a collector who can't afford to buy coins very often. Instead I focus almost entirely on loose change, looking for older coins and errors. I find older nickels to be the most common, or consistent, find in my change. I ALWAYS look forward to searching the nickel pile, and reserve it for last ...just 'cause I KNOW I'm gonna find something! P.S. - I have collected more older nickels than I can count, quite a few of the WWII issues in there, but wanted to add: Nice Find !!!

 

Afterthought: After re-reading all the other comments ...I think I'll go find some super-cheap items to buy, something I'll get a lot of change from ...and see if I can find some more treasure! (laughs)

 

I've gotten some older nickels in my change, but never a war nickel. Good for you!!!

 

I have a '43-P that I picked up somewhere along the way, either in change or roll searching... I didn't realize at the time what it was but just kept it for my nickel collection.

 

Nice!

I've found 4, but that was roll searching. I've never found one in change. VERY cool.

 

Pictures Coinmaster. Nice easy find.

 

Oldest Nickel I've found in my change was a dateless buffalo. Never a wartime nickel though. Nice find.

 

I got a buffou nickel but never a war nickel

 

Why not go buy rolls from the bank?

 

I've only found 1 war nickel in circ or rolls. I think it was a 44-P?

Just last week, I found a 1913 wheat cent. It looked barely circulated. I was surprised so kinda wondering where it spent most of it's 98 years sitting unused?

And last year, I made my thread about going to a coffee store and walking out with SIX silver quarters I got in change . I did am happy dance to my car that day

http://www.cointalk.com/t132254/

Been a few months since I found silver. Still do, but mostly I find wheaties and the occasional 40's nickel (not war though)

 

I average about one war nickel for every box ($100) of nickels I search. I also usually find several non-silver forties, and once in about every two boxes a '38 or '39. i've had the best luck searching nickel boxes for silver because not everyone knows about the 35% silver nickels.

The first box I went through I found a 1938 in uncirculated condition! what a find.

This story kills me. I had searched through $500 in nickels or so and found no buffaloes. My girlfriend asked if she could go through a couple rolls, so I threw her three and said she could keep anything she found. First roll, she yells "Buffalo Nickel!" I looked, and it was one of the new ones I said that's not a buffalo nickel. On the third roll, once again I hear "Buffalo Nickel!" I said yeah right. Sure enough, she had a buffalo nickel with a nice full date on it. I thought she was tricking me and had taken one out of my collection. So, it's in her piggy bank (reserved for old coins), and I still have yet to find a buffalo nickel in circulation. Rats.

 

Last winter I found a 1945-S nickel on the floor of a local store. I haven't found one in actual change in years, though.