Today: In 2 rolls I pulled 8 Buffalo Nickels. I found 6 more in a few more rolls. In a few rolls I pulled 5 1955-D Nickels. These are the variation that has been giving me the 1955 D/S. Why no 51, 52, 53 and others close by? Several 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941 and 1942 Regular Composition. A couple of 1942-D Feedback please. Inspector43
someone rolled up granpas "penny jar" collection at a guess but who knows maybe you just extra lucky this week
Yes, probably but if alive, I'd say more like Grandma's stash. Can't nickel and dime that woman out of her savings. Luck is another possibility.
Inspector - has your main success come from customer wrapped, bank/Loomis wrapped, or a mix from both?
Here’s my thoughts: your bank is part of an upstream coin dump source. I speculate a local coin store but maybe someone who buys and sorts collections is dumping instead. But I am perplexed by 2 factors: the plentiful war nickels and frequent semikey/key Jeffersons. I’m in the scenario I describe. There is a local coin shop that buys collections to sort. They keep most of the best for themselves for resale and offload the rest. Silver is sorted and most goes towards bullion sales. The best are inventoried but only to a certain extent. They have wholesale buyers that buy up a lot of the common stuff like LWCs, IHCs, dimes, quarters, halves and dollars. But not so much the nickels. They bag a majority of these and dump them at the bank for face value. I suspect that since our bank chain doesn’t have counter/rolling on site, these dumps are mixed in with the other accumulated change, rolled and packaged (by the outside service) and some find their way back into our banks to supply local businesses. I occasionally intercepted these dumps. Typical CRH events normally produced 1 War Nickel every 2 boxes, 1 Buffalo every 3 boxes, and 1 V nickel every 20 boxes. But when I caught it right, I might find a mix of Buffalo and V nickels…20 or more…in a single box. This happened 3 times. On other occasions I would find rolls of uncirculated Jefferson Nickels from the 60s and 70s. I got to the point that after I searched them for variety specimens, I’d cash them in. The fact you find War Nickels puts a wrinkle into this. 2 reasons: first, the LCS kept all silver. I never found more than 2 in a box. Second, the frequency for your finding semikey Jefferson nickels is very high…and their conditions. I found many higher grade Jeffersons but way more randomly. And never in the intercepted boxes. This would indicate that a collection was dumped privately: passing of a fellow enthusiast or maybe theft as has been noted here. It’s amazing what you are finding just buying $20 worth of nickels here and there. But if you are in a stream, that might be all that is needed. Anyway, those are my thoughts. And I’m glad for you and the fun we are having viewing your successes. I hope the luck continues!!
Well, if that was me, I would say very good Me. I got some good finds in just a few rolls of Nickels. But, since it's you, and you seem to find all kinds of "goodies", I guess I would respond with something like, "Hey, you must have gotten rolls meant for me"! But, I really can't say that, because they contained more than I usually find. OK, I'm joking. I'm not throwing a pity party. I am extremely blessed and so thankful that you have been finding some really good coins in your searches. I know a 1939-D has, so far, eluded you, but I remember you posting about finding some doubled coins in the 1940's that I didn't even know existed (no, that's no huge accomplishment. There are MANY things that I don't know. I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up!). But, my friend, I have enjoyed your journey so much, and been encouraged by your tenacity and dedication, and no one is pulling for you more than I am. Thank you for not changing your rules, nor giving up on the chase!
