I was roll hunting again. Both these came out of the same style rolls. The first is an business strike Jefferson, brilliant and Lustrous. This is your standard mid die state coin. This one is a much later die state. Notice the die polishing (die abrasion) mostly noticed in the Queue it is very flat and without detail. Unfortunately the coin below is in a slider condition, and not a MS grade. There are two other Nickels from the rolls I will post later in the thread. I haven't roll searched in a while, so it feels good to find something worthy to collect.
Nice roll finds. I haven't searched nickel rolls in quite some time. With what you've found maybe I should start again.
Finding nice well made attractive '65 nickels is getting tough. I consider only about a third of them sufficiently damaged to consider "culls" but an awful lot have uneven wear and rough surfaces from heavy handling. Silver wore down much faster and obliterated small scratches but now days coins get counted and handled as much as they get nice even wear from pockets and change purses. Once they get a little mark it can take years to wear off and by that time they've acquired several more. First the nature of the way coins were made changed in 1965 since the mint was just cranking them out without regard to quality and then the nature of the way they are used gradually evolved as nickels lost all their purchasing power. Now they're just a relic of a by-gone age with many of their corpses lingering in circulation. The attrition on these is so high that even if the mint doesn't withdraw them in favor of a smaller lighter coin that '65 issues will hardly be seen in ten more years. As inflation removes more value attrition increases and new coins are made in ever larger numbers to take their place. Increases in electronic transactions make this difficult to see and predict but the percentage of nice attractive '65 nickels in circuylation is already pretty low.
@cladking It kind of blew me away when I saw the design and the brilliant luster. I was getting myself prepared for a 70's Jefferson, not a mid sixties, I find a lot of 64's that are descent, and that is probably because of the DDR's and RPM's. But, these mid to late 60's nickels are getting pretty scarce above an XF, I stash them away when they have nice even wear.
People are still putting bags of 1964 nickels in circulation but not many '65's were ever set aside in the first place. A roll of 1964 nickels wholesales at $2.05 and buyers are hard to find. The '65 goes for $7 and there are even fewer buyers. Go figure.
