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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 2196965, member: 19250&quot;]One must remember&nbsp; why the nickel was minted&nbsp; in the first place. It was minted for a few very important&nbsp; reasons. One after the Civil war to get coinage&nbsp; into the main stream. Silver coins were hoarded. After the war they needed a work horse&nbsp; to fuel up the economy . A coin that would wear well and would not be kept because of its&nbsp; melt value.</p><p>The cent and nickel was the working man&#039;s coin.</p><p>I would venture&nbsp; to say from 1866 to 1966&nbsp; and maybe a few years longer a nickel had buying&nbsp; power.&nbsp; In the early years it got you lunch and a beer,it got you a good cigar.Towards the latter part of the 100 years I&#039;m&nbsp; talking about the time of my childhood&nbsp; a nickel got you, a candy bar, a 8 oz. Coke, a hand dipped&nbsp; ice cream cone, and five pieces of penny candy. You could&nbsp; buy a news paper for a nickel, in 1964 you could go to a McDonald&#039;s&nbsp; and for 5 nickels get the equivalent&nbsp; of a quarter&nbsp; pounder meal deal.</p><p>Yes a burger,fries,and a drink for a quarter !</p><p>Now one also must think about this work horse. Yes for the most part millions&nbsp; were minted, and used daily.&nbsp; And over this 100 year period&nbsp; you better know they&nbsp; been through&nbsp; hell and back. Cleaned yes ,any coin over 150 years old I would bet has been exposed to some sort of cleaning&nbsp; or wear.</p><p>Anytime you find a coin that age is 150 years plus,and the coin was in circulation&nbsp; for the most part of that time period&nbsp; and is in vf to xf condition&nbsp; you have scored well.</p><p>As collectors&nbsp; all of us for the most part want high grades&nbsp; xf or better coins. But our wants always&nbsp; exceed&nbsp; our needs.</p><p>Nickels are for the most part not a highly desired coin to collect. Unless you&#039;re&nbsp; talking a 1913 Liberty. But some of the highest&nbsp; finial&nbsp; value auctions&nbsp; have been a nickel.</p><p>In my nickel collection I have&nbsp; coins who&#039;s&nbsp; values&nbsp; range from face value to thousands&nbsp; of dollars.</p><p>Even those who are in the high dollar price range ,as rare as they maybe are only worth at the end of a day&nbsp; what another collector is willing&nbsp; to pay.</p><p>Coin collecting is like boating some like go fast boats,some enjoy the power of the wind and sailing a long . Be the ride&nbsp; fast or slow it don&#039;t&nbsp;&nbsp; matter&nbsp; as long as you enjoy the ride. Because one day all the coins you own will be in the hands of another ,as the coins you hold once where in someone else&#039;s hands. Enjoy the ride, enjoy the knowledge.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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