I’ve got a box of 2020 p uncirculated nickels sitting for a bit now. I’m new to the hobby so advice on this would help in the future. Is such a box worth searching? I see there are certainly dd varieties but are such boxes worth the time to hunt under a scope. Thanks for any advice, again this would help on hunting in the future should such a situation arise again
Welcome to Coin Talk. If you knew how to properly grade a coin it would be worth looking for very high grade (MS69-70) coins. I'd put them aside and if, in the future, they start selling for decent money, possibly have them graded. The future I'm talking about is more than a couple of years.
Yes. As Thomas mozzillo says if you can grade and know what you are looking at it would be worth going through it looking for the highest grade examples, that 1 in a billion+ coin that's near perfect. PCGS has only one graded currently at MS69 full steps. No MS68s, and MS70s are darn near impossible. NGC MS68s can get $200-400 on ebay. MS67s are common and wouldn't be worth the grading fees. A MS69 would be a wildcard and you went to sell it many times more than a MS68 though. So you cold look for errors or coins that qualify for MS68 or higher or both. It's tedious though to check a box of all the same date coins.
