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<p>[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 4542656, member: 15309"]There are many coin roll hunters in the numismatic world. And although I love the idea of finding hidden treasure, I abhor the thought of searching roll after roll of circulated coins looking for tiny die varieties with a loupe. Instead, I do what I call "album hunting" with Jefferson Nickels. I look to buy complete or mostly complete gem bu Jefferson Nickel collections in Danscos and other albums, then I break the album down and photograph each coin and sell them individually on E-Bay. The hope is to find one or two really nice premium gems that I can submit to the TPGs in hopes of making some real money while selling the remaining coins raw for small profits to recoup my initial investment.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today I starting pulling coins from my most recent acquisition which was a Harris album that was missing some of the early dates and war nickels including the 39-D & 39-S. After pulling the 38s which were all really nice gem bu coins, I pulled the following 5 coins in succession.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1939 Reverse of 40 CH BU 5FS</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/eU5rQ9g.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/ajQJpro.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1940 BU 6FS</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/lDxsK8H.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/5vFcsiZ.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1940-D CH BU 6FS</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/oQjXTrb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/npQzLcv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1940-S BU 5FS</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/TVJq4WI.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/Uam7S6Q.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1941 Premium GEM BU 5FS</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/KZSMvhz.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/fKSt3At.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I seriously can't wait to find out how many more full step coins this album has to give after putting up 5 in a row. The war nickels that were in there were mostly "just miss" full steps but I didn't look at anything after 1945. Wish me luck![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 4542656, member: 15309"]There are many coin roll hunters in the numismatic world. And although I love the idea of finding hidden treasure, I abhor the thought of searching roll after roll of circulated coins looking for tiny die varieties with a loupe. Instead, I do what I call "album hunting" with Jefferson Nickels. I look to buy complete or mostly complete gem bu Jefferson Nickel collections in Danscos and other albums, then I break the album down and photograph each coin and sell them individually on E-Bay. The hope is to find one or two really nice premium gems that I can submit to the TPGs in hopes of making some real money while selling the remaining coins raw for small profits to recoup my initial investment. Today I starting pulling coins from my most recent acquisition which was a Harris album that was missing some of the early dates and war nickels including the 39-D & 39-S. After pulling the 38s which were all really nice gem bu coins, I pulled the following 5 coins in succession. [B]1939 Reverse of 40 CH BU 5FS[/B] [img]https://i.imgur.com/eU5rQ9g.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/ajQJpro.jpg[/img] [B]1940 BU 6FS[/B] [img]https://i.imgur.com/lDxsK8H.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/5vFcsiZ.jpg[/img] [B]1940-D CH BU 6FS[/B] [img]https://i.imgur.com/oQjXTrb.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/npQzLcv.jpg[/img] [B]1940-S BU 5FS[/B] [img]https://i.imgur.com/TVJq4WI.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/Uam7S6Q.jpg[/img] [B]1941 Premium GEM BU 5FS[/B] [img]https://i.imgur.com/KZSMvhz.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/fKSt3At.jpg[/img] I seriously can't wait to find out how many more full step coins this album has to give after putting up 5 in a row. The war nickels that were in there were mostly "just miss" full steps but I didn't look at anything after 1945. Wish me luck![/QUOTE]
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