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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John77, post: 2497002, member: 79277&quot;]Actually the War Nickel and the 51-S didn&#039;t come from that box. They came from unmarked MWRs from two different branches.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the 44 rolls of coins from one LOOMIS box (where I found 170 of the coins), and the full 50 roll LOOMIS box I bought (which had 37 more), it appears that someone had probably been collecting these coins for a very long time and culled the silver out as they went along... and very recently cashed them all in without going through them. My best estimation as that they did this during a very long period from 1956-1979 as I found Uncirculated coins in good quantity from that period. There were a whole bunch of 1956, 1959, and 1960 dated Nickels from Philadelphia in AU and BU, some scattered dates from the rest of the 1960s in BU (mostly 1961, 1963, 1964, and 1964-D), several BU 1970-S coins which were mostly poorly struck on the reverse, and then a bunch of mostly Denver minted BU coins from 1971-1976, with some BU Philly coins from 1977-1979... Makes me think these people may have moved a few times, and brought their coins with them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The above said, I feel so VERY fortunate to stumble upon this batch. I will be heading back there tomorrow to see if they have any more LOOMIS rolls or boxes of nickels.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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