What to look for in US Jefferson Nickels.

Yes, exactly. But there tends to be an inverse relationship between mintage and number saved with moderns. The higher the mintage the fewer who bother to save it.

Everything from 1931 to 1965 was saved by the roll. Later coins generally weren't saved except cents and some dates of nickels.

There are no original bank wrapped rolls of 1969 quarters, for instance, and these have been gone since just about 1969.

 

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Try finding original rolls of something like '73 or '69-D nickels. There are a few out there but many dates of nickels are not readily available except in the mint set or in very low grade.

 

Still searching for that million coin 50-D hoard...D Bowers states that there was a 1,000,000 coin hoard along with several other large hoards totaling 1,300,000 coins...Bowers quotes that: "The question with the 50-D is not whether they were hoarded, but whether any were NOT hoarded".

 

as always, I defer to you, you are the king, but I consider myself to be in the royal family of clad collectors

 

Well, I don't find the coins.

I know for a fact that there are people hunting Gems and varieties in original rolls and finding both. They are finding varieties that don't appear in mint sets so they must be original rolls.

A have a different way to look than most people. Rather than making high offers and calls I just look to see what's out there and I don't see many rolls from after 1964/ 5. I used to be very close to these markets and didn't see them in those days either. I saw what came into coin shops and there just weren't any rolls other than cents, a few dates of nickels and a few other coins with spotty availability. There were no collections in folders or albums of post-'64 coinage. Virtually all moderns seen were mint issue and in those days there were tons of them.

I seriously doubt even the roll searchers can come up with some coins like '69 quarters. There are lots of these rolls out there but they are always mint set coins.

People forget that a lot of the older rolls had some pretty steep premiums back in the '70's. Of course this was in the days before most of the mint sets were cut up and swamped the demand.

Now the mint sets are almost gone and we still live in consumer economy where one rarely sees collections of moderns.

I'm really just the "pretender to the throne". There are lots of experts in modern now days and I was not the first. Probably people of the likes of RS Yeoman, John J Pittman, and Herbert Hicks were the real kings of clad.