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D'you mind saying which ones you're still looking for out of change?

 

Here's what's left on my list:

 

1938-D

1939-D

1942-S

1943-D

1944-P

1944-S

1949-S

1950-D (have these ever been found in circulation in the past few decades?)

1953-S

1955

2009-P

2009-D

 

There is a *small* chance that the unknown war nickel might be the missing '44-P, but I'm going to have to place my bets on it being a '42-P based on how much of the last digit is visible. I had originally given up on finding any of the missing dates, but the semi-key '38-S renewed my hopes that the rest may still be out there!

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The ultimate find for me would be one of the counterfeit Henning Nickels from 1944, they were circulated in the 1950's and I have heard of people finding them in circulation.

 

I have actually been on the lookout for those. Considering that I've found a magician's coin in the past, I certainly would not put it out of the realm of possibilities. I know it's easy to spot the '44 with the missing mint mark, but what about the other dates he made?

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I have actually been on the lookout for those. Considering that I've found a magician's coin in the past, I certainly would not put it out of the realm of possibilities. I know it's easy to spot the '44 with the missing mint mark, but what about the other dates he made?

 

 

He used the same reverse die hub for the other dates, the 1939 etc. They are not as easy to find because of the mintmark thing, but on the reverse of the Henning nickel the R of the word PLURIBUS has a peculiar loop on the bottom of the left part of the letter.

 

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Got my third box today! Unfortunately, it fell short of the massive hauls I got from the last two. Here's the count:

 

1939 x 2

1940

1941

1946 x 3

1948

1953-D x 2

1955-D

1956-D x 2

1957

1957-D

1958-D x 3

1959

1959-D x 2

 

(and the miscellaneous '60s dates)

1960

1960-D x 7

1961

1961-D x 7

1962-D x 4

1963 x 3

1963-D x 4

1964 x 16 (one AU that I will be keeping for my collection)

1964-D x 21

1965

1966 x 2

1967 x 2

1968-S

1969-S

1970-S x 2

 

Also, found a very large number of near-BU 2010-P's. I think somebody broke a fresh roll into a coinstar.

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I got $10 of nickels the other day. A couple upgrades, one or two holes filled in my 'circulation finds' collection. Nothing really impressive. The oldest was a 1947-D; nothing in the 1950s; 1960s were few, and not impressive. No 2009; a few 2010s.

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New box just in. Here's the scoop:

 

1938

1940

1941 x 2

1942 (pre-war)

1943-P

1943-S

1947 x 2

1947-S

1948

1949

1951-D

1953

1954-D x 2

1954-S

1955-D x 2

1956 x 2

1957 x 2

1957-D x 2

1958-D x 2

1959-D x 2

 

All in all, I can't say I'm disappointed. The bank didn't have a full box, so they have me a handful of Dunbar-wrapped nickels, and several customer-wrapped rolls. In the customer-wrapped rolls I found more than three solid rolls of 2005-P&D Buffalo nickels... I blame SMS for that one! :P

 

Interestingly, these rolls were entirely hit-or-miss. After 5 rolls with nothing but an ugly '64 in them, I struck gold with a 47, 48, and 49 in one roll together. I think I'm going to head back to the bank to pick up some more-- wish me luck!

 

 

*EDIT* Just got to the halfway point with the new box before I ran out of empty wrappers for the coins. So far, I am very pleased:

 

1928 Buffalo (Near-dateless)

1938-D (5.3M)

1939

1941

1948-D

1949

1951

1952

1953

1953-D x 2

1954-D x 2

1954-S

1956-D

1957 x 2

1958-D x 2

 

I'm excited to see what's in the rest of the box!

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I think I need to order some nickel boxes sometime - they are easy searches - I just tend to stick to cents because of the copper mining factor. I probably have about $1000 in pre-1982 in old jugs now.

 

But first I have to check out the $300 in halves my one bank branch called me about.

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Finally finished! Here's what was left in the remaining 15-ish rolls:

 

1939

1941

1952-D

1964-D in AU

 

Not too much of note, but I've had worse.

 

And going off of what Saor said, I've thought about switching to pennies for a while, but there are a few reasons why I keep coming back to nickels:

1. As long as you search at least $20, the odds of finding something pre-1960 are virtually 100%. Nothing is particularly valuable, but it beats spending 2 hours and having nothing to show for it.

2. They're not silver. Roll searchers have hit boxes of dimes, quarters, and halves hard since the initial surge of silver prices in the 80's, but nickels are virtually untouched.

3. They're not pennies. I might just have bad luck, but the last 10 times I searched through pennies, about 20% of the coins were coated with what appeared to be gum, and many of them were stuck together.

4. They're cheap.

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I have a network of banks, I have accounts all over the place, so I also have several tellers on the prowl for the goodies. I am not above subtle means of getting what I want either, gift cards and assorted treats. Several of the tellers call me when the goodies come. They all know about the whole branch doing lunch on me reward if they get a $500 or $1000 bill. One teller I know is a bit of a collector herself - so she has to get numismatic goodies as rewards.

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Tried out ten rolls today of nickels - I purchased $30 worth of cents and $20 worth of nickels and came up with the following:

 

1940

1941-D

1946

1952

1955-D X 2

1959-D X 2

 

1968-S X 2

1969-S

1970-S X 2

 

Canada

 

1965 X 2

 

A total of 15 finds out of ten rolls. Not a bad haul, the Canadians have a higher nickel content and melt value is about 14 cents on them.

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Totals for the newest box in. Here's the scoop:

 

1939

1940 x 5

1941

1943-P

1944-P

1946

1947-D

1948

1952

1952-D

1954-D

1955 (FINALLY!)

1957

1957-D

1958-D

1959

1959-D x 4

1960 AU (2 full steps)

1963 BU (4-5 full steps)

2009-P

2009-D x 2

2011-D

 

All in all, I can't say I'm disappointed with two silvers and three holes in my collection filled.

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I once heard that the first step is admitting you have a problem....

 

Dateless buffalo (my guess is early '30s)

1939 x 2

1941 x 2

1946 x 2

1947

1948

1948-D

1952 x 2

1952-D

1954-D

1955-D

1957

1957-D

1959-D

1969-D AU

2011-P x 4

 

No holes filled with this box, but I have only 6 coins left to go!!! Also, this find makes my 7th buffalo in circulation (2 from work and 5 in 7 boxes).

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I have been searching the cents for quite awhile - getting kind of boring. 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.

 

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's accounts. The bags are in the amount of $200.

 

Yesterday I went in and saved the bag from the infernal Federal Reserve bank in Chicago and instead brought them home.

 

Wowzer!

 

7 Buffers: :yahoo:

 

1920

1935

1936

1938-D

3 dateless

 

Jeffersons

 

1940

1941 x 4

1942

1943-P silver! :yahoo:

1944-P silver! :yahoo:

1945-P silver! :yahoo:

1946

1948 x 3

1950

1954-D x 2

1954

1956 x 2

1957 x 2

1957-D x 2

1958-D x 3

1959-D x 2

1959 x 2

 

San Francisco minted nickels:

 

1940

1941

1943 - silver! :yahoo:

1947

1952-S x 2

1954-S

1968 x 7

1969 x 6

1970 x 16

 

Canada

1980 - only save because the ones from before 1981 are worth double face melt right now.

 

Then there was an orphan cent that somehow found it's way into the bag but then it was a 1974-S! :yahoo:

 

I am still ecstatic about finding 7 Buffalos in the whole lot. I would have never thought I would have found one in circulated nickels until last week, then I found the one. 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. None of the Buffalos will win any beauty or grading contests but I am happy with them.

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