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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 7794792, member: 68"]Every '38-D nickel minted has been found many times over so the date no longer circulates. Sure a few have been found recently in the woodwork and was spent but this is too few to count. Additionally hundreds of '38-D's are lost and many are "lost" into circulation. A coin collector doesn't notice he dropped one on the carpet and someone comes along and spends it or some similar misadventure occurs. </p><p><br /></p><p>With about 40,000,000,000 nickels in circulation and perhaps 10,000 '38-D's lost at any given time your odds of finding one are poor at ~ 1: 4,000,000 or 1 '38-D in 2000 boxes of nickels. This number will fluctuate over time but stay relatively constant since there are so few.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 7794792, member: 68"]Every '38-D nickel minted has been found many times over so the date no longer circulates. Sure a few have been found recently in the woodwork and was spent but this is too few to count. Additionally hundreds of '38-D's are lost and many are "lost" into circulation. A coin collector doesn't notice he dropped one on the carpet and someone comes along and spends it or some similar misadventure occurs. With about 40,000,000,000 nickels in circulation and perhaps 10,000 '38-D's lost at any given time your odds of finding one are poor at ~ 1: 4,000,000 or 1 '38-D in 2000 boxes of nickels. This number will fluctuate over time but stay relatively constant since there are so few.[/QUOTE]
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