Has anyone noticed that there arent that many of the new design nickels in circulation? I myself pull all of them i find from circulation and bought a couple rolls of each design recently from a dealer.
Hey...can you spell "HOARD" these are being being stored in safe's around the country by the thousands waiting for the right moment to come out..so are mine..heheeheheh If ya have mint rolled nickles..keep em..better in a mint wrapper than a bank roll.. RickieB
I’m a bit disappointed in the Ocean nickels. The quality seems a little better than the Bison nickels, mostly because I didn’t get as many coins with a dirty film (P mint). One almost needs a magnifier to read the inscription on the reverse. They located it in a very busy portion of the design, and it’s almost hidden. The Keelboat remains my favorite of the 2004-2005 nickels. Maybe someday I’ll see one outside of my proof sets.
This month I just started seeing a few new nickels circulation. After closed inspection, all three nickels show signs of a little wear and half the luster and I decided they where not worth keeping. I suspect you will start seeing them creep slowly into circulation.
The US Mint has to be loving all this hoarding. Neat trick making money while making money eh? I've managed to get at least one P bank roll of each design as they've come out....and I've been a sucker and purchased at least one set of each from the mint. Have to say, I prefer the pricing at the banks
I only ordered one roll each of in P-D for Ocean in view and bison, now I regreat. I guess I should have ordered 2 rolls each, one set to keep in mint packaging and one set for me to search through. It'll be shipped in 2-3 weeks, maybe I should increase my order?
Shatsi, check with a local Commerce Bank in town, they actually have been supporting the state quarter and nickel programs. I don't have an account there, but if you do, you can sign up for the program and they will order a roll for you and send a post card when it has arrived. I've been tempted to open a small account with them, but just haven't gotten around to it. The commerce banks are cool in that they also have free coin machines. So if you like to search through boxes of coins, you can dump them there with no fees
Theres a coin show at the North Georgia Trade and convention center next week and i plan on getting a few more rolls of all designs.
thanks lawdogct. I'm sorry I missed the coin show in NY and I was checking the schedule and there's nothing in NY for a long time.
Theres a coin show at the North Georgia Trade and convention center next week and i plan on getting a few more rolls of all designs.
Part of the problem is the hundreds of billions if not trillions of older (1938-2003) Jefferson Nickels in circulation. Even if a billion new ones have been minted there's still 66 years of the older stuff floating around being used.
Well, I’m starting to have second thoughts about my previous comments. The Ocean nickel is looking much better to me this afternoon, now that looked at it a bit more and have had all day to reflect on the design. I particularly like the way the boilerplate coin text is wrapped around the outside in a circle. It adds a lot of radial symmetry to the design that I like in a coin. Also, I previously described the diary description as being in a “busy” part of the design. I now amend that to a “textured” part of the design. And, I find I can read it easier today than I could very late last night (very early this morning, actually) when I was “processing” the rolls. Another thing I like is this design makes me think about the men who made the journey, and what they were thinking and feeling as they approached sight of the ocean. How far away were they when they could smell the ocean before they could see it, and how far away were they when they first saw seagulls? They must have known they were close before they actually saw the Pacific. How many false alarms had they had, where they were sure they were within a day of arriving at the coast, only to find out it was still quite a ways out ? I suppose I could read one of the books based on their diaries to learn the answers to most of these questions. My wife read a biography of Sacagawea, and now she insists on pronouncing the name with a soft ‘g’. Her tribe had a hard life. Some of the other Indian tribes would kill members of her tribe, seeing her tribe as competition for the available food. A lot of this was happening just 200 years ago; amazing how much has changed since then.
Bacchus, you've never found a keelboat in circulation? i've found more of those than the buffalo's!! *gloat gloat gloat* i like the ocean in view nickels. i dont know if they are my favorite yet. but i do like the design
My wife found a Keelboat nickel in change last May when we were in Orlando, but she didn't offer it to me. Oh, in my previous post, when I made mention of "her tribe", I mean Sacagawea's tribe, not my wife's tribe.
If you want to collect coins that were not hoarded try these for starters 1892 Dimes, quarters, halves 1840 Dollars 1839 Halves 1807 and related capped bust coinage 1794-1795 half dimes, half dollar, and dollar 1793 cent and half cent These coins were not hoarded not many people wanted them! Speedy
I went to the bank today looking for rolls of the new oceans nickels. When I asked if they hand any I was delighted at the positive response, then I was handed 5 rolls of keelboats...DOH. No complaints from me though, I was only able to get one roll when they initially were released.
I think the Ocean nickel is the most attractive of the series. One can imagine looking out at that coastline view--and living in the Pacific NW I do love to look at those coast vistas whenever I can. The only problem with it is there is so much to see in such a small space. You kind of have to turn it in the light to see all the facets. I also like the Keelboat design because of its simplicity. It's easy to see for those of us without perfect vision.
The text of their diaries is online at: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8419 and from the University of Nebraska: http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/ I dug out volume 1 of the 3 volume set edited by Coues that I got many moons ago in my History of the Pacific Northwest class. I'm only up to August, 1804, so I've got a way to go before Clark's November 7, 1805 entry "Great joy in camp we are in View of the Ocian".
