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<p>[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 643935, member: 15309"]Cladking,</p><p><br /></p><p>While I admire your enthusiasm about modern coinage, you know very well that there a millions of mint sets for every date/mm (except 82 & 83) containing every denomination including the nickels. People don't just break coins out of government packaged mint sets and spend them. For the most part, they are uncirculated and remain in hoards, collections, and dealer's inventories. To insinuate that post 64 nickels are more rare than pre 64 nickels is a little far fetched.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will admit that they are extremely difficult to locate in NGC or PCGS slabs because most of the coins don't have the requisite value to warrant professional grading. In that sense, they are quite rare for registry purposes.</p><p><br /></p><p>So other than 1982 & 1983 when there were no mint sets, I would have to say that most modern nickels are very common in MS grades. And besides, you aren't going to find many 1941-D's that look like this:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Jefferson%20Nickels%204%20Sale/JeffersonNickel1941-DNGCMS676FS2-2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Enjoy!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 643935, member: 15309"]Cladking, While I admire your enthusiasm about modern coinage, you know very well that there a millions of mint sets for every date/mm (except 82 & 83) containing every denomination including the nickels. People don't just break coins out of government packaged mint sets and spend them. For the most part, they are uncirculated and remain in hoards, collections, and dealer's inventories. To insinuate that post 64 nickels are more rare than pre 64 nickels is a little far fetched. I will admit that they are extremely difficult to locate in NGC or PCGS slabs because most of the coins don't have the requisite value to warrant professional grading. In that sense, they are quite rare for registry purposes. So other than 1982 & 1983 when there were no mint sets, I would have to say that most modern nickels are very common in MS grades. And besides, you aren't going to find many 1941-D's that look like this: [IMG]http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Jefferson%20Nickels%204%20Sale/JeffersonNickel1941-DNGCMS676FS2-2.jpg[/IMG] Enjoy!:D[/QUOTE]
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