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Message:: [QUOTE="cladking, post: 429582, member: 68"]This has been the common wisdom since silver was removedfrom the coinage.  People look through nickels and pull out allthe old ones and have been doing it for decades.  But look at the '50-D nickel.  The mintage was well over 2 1/2 million and almost every one was saved in unc.  Still it's far more valuable than almost every other Jefferson.  But the post1964 nickels often weren't saved in BU rolls because they hadhuge mintages.  So today we have the odd situation where manyof the later dates are much scarcer than the '50-D in unc yet sell for far less.  If you believe this will last forever or that the new nickels aren't worth collecting then fine.  Otherwise these later coins make an attractive collectible; one in which desirable and scarce coins can still be found in circula-tion.  Remember that when you pluck that VG 1939 nickel from circu-lation that there are millions in unc.  There are far more millionsin F, VF, and XF that collectors have been pulling from circula-tion for decades.  But if you find a nice attractive '82-P there are a mere handfull in unc and large percentages of those are un-attractive.  Collect what you like but if you want some scarcity you have no alternative but to look at the later coins because the older oneshave been picked over for more than half a century. Look at it this way; even if you find a really nice coins like a AU '40-S there are millions better. But if you can find a really nice '83-D there might be only several thousand nicer.  Indeed it's not impossibleto even find high grade recent dates but they're far harder to findthan the older coins.[/QUOTE]

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