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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1894916, member: 27832&quot;]I can&#039;t really help you much with the finer details of telling whether a circulated coin started out as a proof or as uncirculated. Instead, I&#039;ll just point you at the odds.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were over 100 million 1971 nickels minted for circulation at Philadelphia (with no mint mark). There are a few hundred known examples of the 1971 &quot;No S&quot; proof nickel.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you pull four 1971 nickels out of a box, it seems to stand to reason that the odds against them being &quot;No S&quot; proofs are about a million to one. In fact, the odds are even poorer -- most proof coins never go into circulation, so of the very few &quot;No S&quot; proofs that were made in the first place, even fewer of them could possibly be found in circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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