Jefferson Nickels - The Raw Story- image spam :)

Them being in the paper is what makes them desirable. I'd never take them out of the paper.

 

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They were in the old manila bank rolls. These rolls promote toning, so I took them out to stop it. I know many think toning is cool, but not when it can continue and lead to corrosion. I took all original rolls I bought out of this manila paper and put into safe plastic tubes. As it is, some of them had darkish toned ends.

Sorry, I have been at too many auctions where rolls of Peace dollars were literally melt value due to long exposure to these rolls and moisture. I lived in Iowa, and a lot of these came out of farmhouses with no AC so high humidity levels in the summer. I have just seen way too many destroyed, corroded coins to trust those manila rolls.

 

Stored properly with desiccant and/or some other dehumidifying device would have worked fine. They survived how many years in those rolls before you took them out?

But hey, it's your money, not mine.

 

Your confusing the heck out of me!

The lure of MS67's from the 44-P and 45-P rolls alone would be enough to break them open. Not to mention the chance of finding DDO in the 43-P.

 

Odds of that happening are small. If you wanna gamble, go for it. I'd leave them in the original rolls for two reasons;

1. I'd love to have a full set of original bank-wrapped rolls.
2. For future generations.

 

As I said, some already had dark end coins. If they had been silver coins versus copper-nickel, I am sure they would have already been corroded. In my experience, contact with sulphur bearing rolls, even in a low humidity environment, can still continue toning. I knew me, and knew I would not diligently check these every 3 months, so I simply put them in plastic where I knew there would be no further sulphur contact.

If you rely on the paper roll to tell you whether a roll is original or not, you can get taken. Original rolls are evident without paper. Always remember they did not come from the mint with these rolls, and there still are a lot of empty paper rolls out there for people to put substandard coins in and sell on Ebay as "original". I have a box of them laying around somewhere and could do such a thing if I had less ethics.

 

how many nickels are in a role

 

Unless your making a time capsule for the next generation, I see no point of keeping them in the roll. Its like the kids who keep baseball cards in the wrapper, your like What the heck?

 

40*$1.6434*6=$393.60

 

what is 1.6434 * 6

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40 coins per roll, $1.6434 silver value per nickel, 6 rolls. I was showing you how I came up with the calculation.

 

That was the silver value of a war nickel when he made that post.

 

1.6434 is the melt value and I'm guessing the 6 is the number of rolls.

 

Great photos, gbroke! Thanks for posting this. I've been busy herding buffaloes lately, but the Jeffs are becoming more and more interesting. I predict the Jefferson series will really heat up when congress changes the composition from the too-valuable nickel and copper.

 

Here's a '39 that came out of a box of nickels I was doing today... interesting what you can still find raw out there, no?

 

That's a beauty merc. I have never found any in circulation or rolls (although I don't roll search) that are this old and this nice.

 

Yeah, it's pretty nice. I'll take some pics of the others I've found later... I also pulled an AU '25 Buff before, that's probably my best individual nickel find.

 

full windows

 

That's not all the pages in my Jefferson album. Just wanted to show all of you the basics. Yes, it is heavy and thick.
May be all of 8 lbs.
zeke

 

Ohhh I like this thread, I think gbroke and I were twins seperated at birth,
only gbroke got the picture taking genes.
I am partial to the 1938 D and 1976 D in post 1

Here's a hard to find 1952 S with steps I cherry picked on eBay.