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Message:: [QUOTE="WarNickelFinder, post: 1143638, member: 28662"]I searched through $100 in nickels today; $22 in CWR and $78 in bank-wrapped rolls.  They yielded the following: *A '42-S War Nickel (Interestingly, this was from a CWR)*A whopping 36 early Jeffersons, with the oldest being a 1938 (my third '38 nickel, buffalo or Jefferson, found during a hunt).*A 20 Centimes piece from Switzerland and a '99 Canadian nickel. Also, when I was dumping my dimes from a search on March 30, the dime bag at the coin counter had to be removed.  After it was sealed, I spotted the back of a Mercury dime.  Because the bag was sealed, I was told that they couldn't open it, so I walked away.  But it turns out, they opened the bag, searched through the 10,000 dimes that were in there, removed the Merc and saved it for me.  I paid them two nickels in exchange for it  It turns out it was a 1940, and this is the first Merc I've found in circulation since 2003 (I found a '42 on my middle school's cafeteria floor, in ketchup). What's even more interesting is that they looked up the statistics for the coin, including melt value, and learned about facts like '16-D being the key date of the series.  It would be cool if this incident has welcomed a few more people into the coin-collecting hobby.[/QUOTE]