100 Boxes of Nickels searched (200,000 coins) in 8 1/2 months...

Some of my interesting findings so far are below. I have found:

2,113 pre-1960 dated coins... so that's 21.13 per box of 2,000 or 1 every 95 coins.
79 Silver War Nickels... so that's 1 in every 1.27 boxes or 1 every 2,532 coins.
30 Buffalo Nickels... so that's 1 every 3.33 boxes, or 1 every 6,667 coins.
14 Proof Nickels... so that's 1 every 7.14 boxes, or 1 every 14,286 coins.
9 Key Date Jeffersons... so that's 1 every 11.11 boxes, or 1 every 22,222 coins.
2 V Nickels... so that's 1 every 50 boxes, or 1 every 100,000 coins.

Here's my spreadsheet with the complete breakdown... hopefully at some point I run into that elusive 1950-D!

 

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Really cool! I'm not so disciplined to have these stats.

 

I was keeping handwritten records in series of notebooks until this summer, just got too time consuming. So then I just went to only keeping records of better stuff like the V nicks, better Buffalos, '39-Ds etc. And for about 6 weeks now I have taken a break from CRH due to busy at work etc.

 

Thank you... once you set up the spreadsheet, it really doesn't take much time to update it... I usually update totals once a month.

 

Hope you can get back to it soon... I've gotten pretty efficient with my record keeping so that it doesn't consume more than 2 or 3 minutes a day... I usually total my nickels monthly and at barriers like this one... other denominations every 3 months...

 

Definitely not before mid January.

 

holy cow. that's some stats. can I call you Booky ? lol jk place your bets lol

 

Thank you... I'm a math nerd... what can I say... and when you combine that with a coin collector... well!!!

 

I think this is great that you can keep an accurate record. I could not personally do it because I'm too unorganized and I think I would go nuts!

 

Nice statistics and well organized spreadsheet too.

I would say my CRH experience is in line with your documented finds. I've probably done about 5 boxes in total over the years (I get about 2-5 rolls at a time). I have only found 1 buffalo nickel and 2 or 3 (can't remember exactly) silver war nickels.

I'm guessing you are closer to the west coast since I see you have a lot more 2009-D compared to 2009-P. Here in Florida I get more 2009-P. I have the tube here in the desk drawer next to me so I just counted them and the ratio of P/D is 21/2, respectively.

I never knew to look for 1990-D No FS. First I hear of that one. Seems to be rare though so chances are I've never gotten one.

Good luck and keep up the good work!

 

Thank you!

Yes, I'm in Southern California... 09-Ps are so hard to find out here in EVERY denomination except, believe it or not, NIFC Halves!

Back in the day when the 1990-D No FS was discovered, I went through a lot of rolls, and managed to pull 8 of them during that time (I didn't keep a tally back then). I'm happy to report that I just found my 11th ever (3rd this run) yesterday!

 

Can we get a reverse shot of it? I'm not familiar with this variety.

 

Interesting numbers. Good luck finding that 1950-D. If you live out West and still haven't found one after 200,000 tries that makes me feel less guilty about purchasing a 1950-D a few years ago. I've been collecting Jeffersons off and on since I was a kid. I had my whole album filled from circulation finds except for that elusive 1950-D. A few years ago, I finally had had enough of looking at that single empty hole in my album so I purchased a nice uncirculated 50-D for $12.00. It's kind of crazy how much time I spent looking for that single coin that only cost $12.00 but when the thrill of the hunt takes over it's hard to give in and buy one but I finally did. But I live on East coast so I'm convinced it's impossible to find any 50-D's in circulation here. From what I understand, the 1950-D is one of the most hoarded coins in US coin history. At least you are on West Coast so you have better chance of finally finding one.

 

Thank you! And actually, I did manage to complete a set out of circulation when I worked as a cashier at a fast food place from 1984-1987... so, this is actually set #2 I'm working on. Here's a picture of the 50-D I found way back when...