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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brent hobonickel, post: 5183637, member: 109300&quot;]Some people dont like hobo nickels! It&#039;s ok! All the hobo nickel carvers hear it at some point. </p><p>&nbsp;I have met a lot of people that work at the Mint and they are a great group of people. When I see them outside the mint I give them hobo nickels which they like a lot. I took a tour of the mint once and brought hobo nickels to give to the mint employees. But one interesting thing about the mint is that you can&#039;t take any coins out of the mint. So they took the hobo nickels to a back room and showed their co-workers- but no one able to take a coin. I ended up giving them to people that were taking the tour with me.</p><p>&nbsp;The US mint actually has one of the best displays of hobo nickels. The Smithsonian and the Money Museum also have nice displays of hobo nickels. The best collections of hobo nickels are privately held. One vintage carving sold for $25,000! It&#039;s really appreciated a lot and it&#039;s worth over a $100,000 today.</p><p>&nbsp;There were over 2.1 billion buffalo nickels minted so there are plenty of nickels. eBay has some great deals on buffalo nickels. I bought a box of 4,400 no date nickels. The box was super heavy and I am surprised it arrived with the box intact. I carved 2,500 hobo nickels and the rest will be carved early 2021. I like the well circulated nickels because they have a lot of character! I used to only carve full dates but it&#039;s really more fun to carve no dates. I think every 500-1000 nickels I carve I learn something new.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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