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<p>[QUOTE="MrOrange1970, post: 2846470, member: 80547"]So I'm travelling last week and my wife is emptying her spare change bin to wrap and take to the bank (she's not a coin collector at all). When she's wrapping the coins, she happens to run across what she thinks must be a foreign coin but then quickly determines that it's an Indian/Buffalo Nickel. She has listened to me preach about rarity and all the numerous factors (market interest, conditional rarity, graded rarity...ect...the poor woman!).</p><p>Anyway, she knows to not only look for the date, but the mint mark as well. </p><p>So in her spare change (not coin rolls) she happened to get a 1924s. Astonishing considering our times and the fact that when I was beginning the hobby, I went through countless rolls of nickels unsuccessfully looking for varieties yet still finding nothing. As I recall, nothing even pre 50's. </p><p><br /></p><p>So here's what she found (see pics). You folks who are Buffalo nickel specialists, your opinion on grade would be appreciated greatly!. No matter, I think it's an amazing random find and can only guess that this somehow accidentally got released into the wild and no one bothers to look at their change anymore.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]674689[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]674690[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MrOrange1970, post: 2846470, member: 80547"]So I'm travelling last week and my wife is emptying her spare change bin to wrap and take to the bank (she's not a coin collector at all). When she's wrapping the coins, she happens to run across what she thinks must be a foreign coin but then quickly determines that it's an Indian/Buffalo Nickel. She has listened to me preach about rarity and all the numerous factors (market interest, conditional rarity, graded rarity...ect...the poor woman!). Anyway, she knows to not only look for the date, but the mint mark as well. So in her spare change (not coin rolls) she happened to get a 1924s. Astonishing considering our times and the fact that when I was beginning the hobby, I went through countless rolls of nickels unsuccessfully looking for varieties yet still finding nothing. As I recall, nothing even pre 50's. So here's what she found (see pics). You folks who are Buffalo nickel specialists, your opinion on grade would be appreciated greatly!. No matter, I think it's an amazing random find and can only guess that this somehow accidentally got released into the wild and no one bothers to look at their change anymore. [ATTACH=full]674689[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]674690[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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