Got this at Sam's Club today. I swear somebody in town is emptying their collection. I got TWO silver dimes last year, and now this.
That's a nice find! I would recommend going to Sam's Club to find more change, not only because you could find stuff like this, but also since people often leave their quarters in the 25 cent water bottle vending machine. I've actually found 75 cents in the machine twice, and while there was no silver, there could be some if it slips in the machine.
Nice find. Like Ed says, they are still out there. I find a V nickel or and Indian Head now and then in roll hunting.
That is just so totally cool. Beats the pants off the worn slick v-nickel I found in my pocket some years back. It was so slick you couldn't read the date..... Three or four years back there was a project called "The Great American Coin Hunt". I don't remember who posed the deal but I went all in. I was seeding coins at elementary school entryways... Using no-date buffalo nickels to pay for stuff.... And I know this was a nationwide effort. I wonder if some of these cool finds are leftovers from the G.A.C.H..... I sure wish they would do that again.
Is a V nickel from WW2? The one with 30% silver? Sounds like the GACH is the cause . At first I thought it might be the big migrant population bringing old US coins from abroad, but that sounds a bit far fetched now that I think about it. What's interesting is that my Grandma's old penny from 1910 is so worn down, it could be a 1919, 1918, etc, etc. Just can't tell.
Correctly identified as a Liberty nickel but is also commonly referred to as a V-nickel because the Roman numeral “V” is a very prominent feature of the design.
