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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;superc, post: 1723576, member: 44079&quot;]Sometime back, around 1975, I began binning spare change based on what denomination it was.&nbsp; I had a pail for what was collectible, and one for pennies, one for wheat pennies (got them so often back then they got their own pail) one for sandwich dimes, quarters and one for nickels, either Jeffersons (mostly 64s of course) and undated buffaloes.&nbsp; When congress passed a law banning the melting down of nickel, I missed the news.&nbsp; Went through my wife&#039;s own collection of coins (she too had a bin which was a single 5 gallon paint can) and threw all the non-dated collectible nickels into my Jefferson bin.&nbsp; Dumb me.&nbsp; I used to tell her the nickel bin was where the big money was, because of the melt value.&nbsp; In 2012 I started to reduce holdings and I was horrified to discover nickel (and copper) US coins could no longer be sold as scrap metal.&nbsp; About 60 or 70 pounds worth of Jefferson and un-dated Buffalo nickels therefore went into local coinstar machines.&nbsp; Now, with hindsight, I wish someone had told me then about nic-a-date.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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