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Ugh, I'm in CRH Retirement Land but I hear whispers telling me to get back in the game...

 

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Does it sound anything like the clank of silver? If it's any consolation, I've been taking it slower and doing different denominations. Lots of wheats, first V nickel, IHP, for silver Roosies and two silver quarters (one each in a $500 box). Cool but not overwhelming money wise to get, so do what works best for you. It's been a leaner year for customer rolled anything this year. Good to hear from you Bman! Hope the Morgan search is going well!

 

We miss you @Bman33 . Come back to the Dark Side. We have cake

 

Next time I find myself in a name brand bank I'm going to ask for $100 of halves.

 

Bought my 3rd partial bag of halves from the coin machine at the same branch of one of my newer banks today. In chronological order these are the results:

1. Bag 1 (3 months ago): $260 bag yielded (3) NIFCs + (1) silver quarter (lol)
2. Bag 2 (1 month ago): $155 bag yielded (2) 90%ers + (2) 40%ers + (1) NIFC
3. Bag 3 (today): $29 bag yielded (20) 90%ers + (3) 40%ers + (0) NIFC

Interestingly, today's bag actually only had $28 in halves but also had 5 clad quarters and 2 cents.

I guess the lessons are: 1) Don't get discouraged if the first few tries are not big successes, 2) Good things come in small packages!!

 

1 bank tonight had only $1 in loose halves:

1, ‘68D 40%er and 1 crummy worn Cu-Ni clad bicentennial

I’m happy!

 

Haven't posted in awhile. Scanner still on fritz. So I'll post my updated cumulative totals of nickels found:
1938p 2
1938d 1
1938s zero
1939p 42*
1939d zero
1939s zero
1940p 50*
1940d 12
1940s 14
1941p 58*
1941d 8
1941s 7
1942p 14
1942d 2
13 - silver war nicks
1946p 46*
1946d 16
1946s 4
1947p 31
1947d 8
1947s 9
1948p 31
1948d 14
1948s 5
1949p 18
1949d 14
1949s 4
1950p 4
1950d zero
1951p 7
1951d 5
1951s zero
1952p 16
1952d 14
1952s 4
1953p 16
1953d 22
1953s 2
1954p 13
1954d 50*
1954s 12
1955p 3
1955d 30
1956p 24
1956d 32
1957p 12
1957d 60*
1958p 12
1958d 93*
1959p 9
1959d 80*
* = at least 40 coins/ 1 roll found
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1960p 26
1960d 102
1961p 32
1961d 169
1962p 68
1962d 192
1963p 115
1963d 219
1964p.....665
1964d....1,523
That's 2,188 1964s or $109.40 worth!
1965 106
1966 89
1967 85
1968d 58
1968s 83
1969d 125
1969s 134
1970d 415
1970s 211
1971p 60
1971d 267
1972p 167
1972d 297
1973p 351
1973d 263
1974p 472
1974d 264
1975p 118
1975d 420
1976p 323
1976d 601
I have all of these in my inventory. Due to money shortages, I have had to purge the newer dates and stop keeping totals.
I convinced one of my CUs to sell me a box of nickels once every month. Hopefully my scanner will work by then and I can show some pics.
My average seems to be about 5 pre-1960 dated nickels for every $20 bought. And there is usually more than an average of 1 1964 dated nickel per roll.
Happy hunting!

 

Based upon my experiences, there must have been about 70 1964 dated nickels. We want to know the breakdown on the pre-1960 dated coins. Did you get any scarce ones? I still haven't found a 1938s, 1939d, 1939s, 1950d and 1951s.

 

If you have this data electronically, you should make a histogram @nickelsorter2017. Year/Mintmark on the x-axis, count on the y-axis.

 

When I started searching change in the early 1970s, it seemed like there were more 1964 nickels than all the other dates put together. I'm sure that wasn't actually true, but it seemed that way.

 

So I just went into my regular bank. That I do all normal business with. I’m tired of being treated like a person who tortures kittens for fun just because I want coins. I went to the one teller who likes me and asked to withdraw $250 as a box of dimes. She asked the head teller who has the vault key and she told her they only had one and they couldn't sell it. No problem...I get it. But her attitude! She wouldn't even look up and the irritation coming from her was tangible. Just so rude. Luckily the teller who likes me rounded up $250 in loose rolls, mostly Loomis and a few customer wrapped and gave those to me. I just don't understand! I don't understand why tellers are such jerks at least 75% of the time even though I'm as polite as I can be. I understand the bank may loose a bit of money handing out a box, however, I don't understand why that would upset the teller to the point where they want me drawn in quartered...it isn't like it comes out of their paycheck. That's all...I just don't understand. That, and the abysmal start to 2018 (2 40% and 4 Roosevelt's) have me seriously considering getting out.

 

Amazing TexAg...congratulations...Its feels like its been ages since I've had a really good score.

 

bhh, I know where you're coming from. You can certainly advocate for yourself by approaching the cranky vault teller and asking what you could do to help her support your hobby, or simply go to a different bank, or banks, to pickup boxes of coin.

 

Found this interesting stamped message roll searching a box of nickels yesterday. The pictures are not very good. I am only showing the coin, because I save all Counter Stamped coins I run across.

 

@bhh I have a similar issue, however they usually have no problem if i order them ahead of time, because they are there just for you, you know? I don't like ordering them because it takes the "spur of the moment" decision out of it, but if that's what I have to do to get my box thats what I do.

 

My penny box will get bought tomorrow.
I sincerely hope the other bank has one.
Because the one from our bank left something to be desired.

I had a box of copper I had written on "50 SUPER nice"
Hardly. I'm looking at one right now that says "50 superb pennies " I wonder what I might find inside.

 

Thought I would post this, as I am working on my coin photography!
Was looking through a box of Lincolns when I encountered this 1968. Just a "deeper" strike than any others I found. It also looks like the planchet was not correctly lined up when the coin was struck causing the "In God We Trust" and "Liberty" to line up right against the rim. When looking at the 1968, it appears like the 2nd T in "Trust" is falling off the rest of the word. Doesn't look like it so much in the picture, but compared to the 1971, there is a distinct difference. 1971 is pictured just for comparison.
Not worth anything, just thought it was a neat coin with a different strike.

 

3 cwr of halves... one 40%

 

So the person who counts all the money at the place I work was counting the coins out of the copy machine. It's like 5 cents a copy or something. It gets used semi frequently. She usually saves all the good coins for me, mostly Wheaties, but once a 40% half. Well she's emptying it and I walk in to fill in my time sheet and she says
"Some jerk put these foreign coins into the copy machine" and she gestures them to me.

Needless to say I taught he all about them! That was a really good work day! I've never even found 1 v nickel, but 4 in one day is amazing!
Then on my to a restaurant as I was on break from school I made a wrong turn and ended up at bank of America. Of course, I just had to stop in. They had 130 in halves and a funny back and forth went on as I posted before. And this is what I got out of 1 roll. I've gotten more 90% halves in this year than I have in all my years of CRH, and we aren't even done with the first month of the year!
Goodles luck to all!