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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 3021679, member: 68&quot;]Finding nice well made attractive &#039;65 nickels is getting tough.&nbsp; I consider only about a third of them sufficiently damaged to consider &quot;culls&quot; but an awful lot have uneven wear and rough surfaces from heavy handling.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;&nbsp; Once they get a little mark it can take years to wear off and by that time they&#039;ve acquired several more.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>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.&nbsp; Now they&#039;re just a relic of a by-gone age with many of their corpses lingering in circulation.&nbsp; The attrition on these is so high that even if the mint doesn&#039;t withdraw them in favor of a smaller lighter coin that &#039;65 issues will hardly be seen in ten more years.&nbsp; As inflation removes more value attrition increases and new coins are made in ever larger numbers to take their place.&nbsp; Increases in electronic transactions make this difficult to see and predict but the percentage of nice attractive &#039;65 nickels in circuylation is already pretty low.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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