How many pre 1960 nickels do you find per box?

what is y'all's average of pre 1960 nickels per box?

 

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Around 17-18... But it varies a ton.

 

I stare real hard at the box for about one minute, and if a number doesn't jump out at me, I don't buy the box.

Chris

 

FYI, I rarely buy full boxes.... usually it's 20-25 rolls at a time from various banks/tellers.

 

You said that "it varies a ton". So, how many boxes do you think are in a ton?

Chris

 

BTW Wheatie, there's a feature called "ignore." I've seen a lot of newbies on here flooded with irrelevant, off-topic posts lately for whatever reason. I'm not sure why this is happening, or whether they're just trying to discourage new members... Glad to have you onboard here!

 

Just got 25 rolls each from my two main banks... hoping I at least hit my average!

 

A serious response here instead of some mock the newb - I find about 10-12 pre 1950 dates - the only post 1949 dates I save are the '50, '50-D and the S mints otherwise I throw them back into the wild.

 

The 55-P and 58 P's are good to save too... especially the 55's... I have only found ONE of those ever in all of my years of searching.

 

I save the '55 when I can find them, but honestly I have found more '39-D and '50-Ds than the '55. Found a couple of '39-S over the last week.

 

I think people really hoarded the 55-P a lot back in the day thanks to the low mintage. So funny, in my lifetime I have found exactly 1 each of the 39-D, 50-D, and 55-P... and none of them in my 5 months of CRH...

My avatar came about over an 11 day period last month when I found 3 1939-Ss!!! So, you have one more to go to catch me there.

 

I have probably a dozen or so '39-D over the years, only two '50-Ds. I think some of my best finds though are 1914 and 1916 Buffaloes in VF+, also found an 1894 - a rare date but it had a big gouge in it.

 

Those are some nice finds! I was thrilled to recently find an 18-D Buff in G-6... a $30 or so coin retail.

 

I average around 20-25 pre-60 nickels per box

 

I don't buy boxes, but out of the usual $10 I spend for nickels, I find about 4.

 

In other words about 40 per box worth of nickels.

 

I've never really done nickels much, but about 4 per $10 I'd say.

Not that pre-60s are worth keeping unless UNC, low mintage date, war nickel, or prior to 1938.

 

I have been through a lot of boxes and average around 25 per fed wrapped roll box, and a little less from customer wrapped rolls. I have accumulated about $85 face value of them and have no idea what to do with them. They are just fun to hunt and collect.

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I rarely do full boxes... I usually like to get half boxes to sample what a particular teller has on their hands... My best so far is 18 pre-60s out of 25 rolls.

I've gone through stretches where I was finding a lot of War Nickels and Buffalos like earlier this month, so I kept pounding that teller and bank until they ran out of the good ones. In contrast, one of my other branches got some new nickels the other week, and I found TWO pre-60s out of 1000 coins! Needless to say, I didn't grab the other half of that box!

 

Have you checked them for the key dates and/or silver?