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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1189807, member: 12789&quot;]<b>The $200 Nickels Fed Bag Search Yesterday</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I have been searching the cents for quite awhile - getting kind of boring.&nbsp; Last week I bought a $100 box of nickels and turned up a dateless Buffer, a few early Jeffersons some S mints - and really I like the find vs. reject ratio a bit better than cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>So this week my bank teller said they would have a bag going back to the Fed unless I bought it - these are all cashed in merchants receipts that get fed into their coin counter and credited to the merchant&#039;s accounts.&nbsp; The bags are in the amount of $200.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yesterday I went in and saved the bag from the infernal Federal Reserve bank in Chicago and instead brought them home.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Wowzer!:devil:</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b>7 Buffers:</p><p><br /></p><p>1920</p><p>1935</p><p>1936</p><p>1938-D</p><p>3 dateless</p><p><br /></p><p>Jeffersons</p><p><br /></p><p>1940</p><p>1941 x 4</p><p>1942</p><p>1943-P silver!</p><p>1944-P silver!</p><p>1945-P silver</p><p>1946</p><p>1948 x 3</p><p>1950</p><p>1954-D x 2</p><p>1954</p><p>1956 x 2</p><p>1957 x 2</p><p>1957-D x 2</p><p>1958-D x 3</p><p>1959-D x 2</p><p>1959 x 2</p><p><br /></p><p>San Francisco minted nickels:</p><p><br /></p><p>1940</p><p>1941</p><p>1943 - silver!</p><p>1947</p><p>1952-S x 2</p><p>1954-S</p><p>1968 x 7</p><p>1969 x 6</p><p>1970 x 16</p><p><br /></p><p>Canada</p><p>1980 - only save because the ones from before 1981 are worth double face melt right now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there was an orphan cent that somehow found it&#039;s way into the bag<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> but then it was a 1974-S<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I am still ecstatic about finding 7 Buffalos in the whole lot.&nbsp; I would have never thought I would have found one in circulated nickels until last week, then I found the one.&nbsp; I cannot believe I found 7 of them, but can only conjecture that because of where I live(community with lots of older folks) that maybe it should not be so unusual.&nbsp; None of the Buffalos will win any beauty or grading contests but I am happy with them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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