Art Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 Fantastic finds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 What Art said! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn235 Posted May 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 Wow! That haul just trumped my 3 years of nickel searching in terms of buffalos! Special congratulations are in order for the '50 and the '38-D buffer, those are rare finds! Â Also, how do you go about getting your hands on a bag? Are they rolled or loose? Also, how willing are they to take the bag back once you've searched it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saor Alba Posted May 28, 2011 Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 The bags come from one of my banks(I bank with seven different banks), my part of the deal is they DON'T come back - they go to another one of my banks where I run them through the coin machine at no charge - but there I have a deal that I take all their unwanted $2's, the Ikes, all halves etc. The bank where I get them has a lot of commercial depositors that bring in lots of loose coins for deposit. Crazily enough it is a very old bank with only three branches. Â The coins in the bags are loose - not rolled. The nickels come in $200 bags, the cents in $50 bags. Right now I am working on four bags of cents that came in from the same deposit as the nickels where the Buffaloes came from. And yes, there are a splattering of wheats and one other really significant find and I am only about halfway through the bags, I have sifted through 9.000 cents last night and am ready to start the other 11.000 this morning. Â I have to buy a gift card for this teller this morning, she has been great about calling me when the goodies come in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saor Alba Posted May 29, 2011 Report Share Posted May 29, 2011 Searched 18.000 cents from Friday to last night. Will report on the finds later since they are still being audited by my two teenage princesses - they check the spoil pile and find still more since their eyes are better. But there were a couple of amazing finds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCoinCzar Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 Wow Saor Alba, that is a lot of pennies. It is a good thing that you have some little helpers or your eyes would probably pop out of your head! I'm curious to see what you have found. I bet there are a lot of neat finds out of 18,000 cents! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtryka Posted June 2, 2011 Report Share Posted June 2, 2011 What a great thread! I need to go visit the bank this weekend... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgk920 Posted June 9, 2011 Report Share Posted June 9, 2011 I've gotten a couple of 2009-Ds in regular circulation, too. *NO* 2009-Ps yet, though. Â Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn235 Posted June 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 Still going through them, but... Â I FOUND A 1891 V NICKEL!!!!!!!!! Â Only in AG condition, but I never hoped I'd find one of those!!!! Â Top it off with two buffalos and the single most worn war nickel I've ever seen... I think it's just about time to call it a night! Hold on for the next update; it's going to be big! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve D'Ippolito Posted June 14, 2011 Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 Holy moley! A V nickel from the bank! You must have been doing cartwheels! Â Had you not searched this particular bunch of nickels, imagine someone (not one of us!) getting it in change and probably being disgusted because they thought it was fake or foreign or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn235 Posted June 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 So, here is the run-down (2 boxes plus work finds of the past week... about 4,200 coins) Â Liberty Head "V" 1891 Â Buffalo 1 dateless, 1 either 1918 or 1919 Â 1938 1940 x 2 1940-D 1940-S 1941 x 3 1941-S x 3 (WOW!) 1943-P 194?-S (Poor-0 condition. All details worn smooth, but faint S is visible on back. my guess is '42 or '43) 1946 x 5 1947 x 2 1948 1949 x 4 1952 1953 x 2 1953-D 1954 1955-D 1956-D 1957-D x 5 1958 x 2 1958-D x 5 1959 1959-D x 8 Â (XF-BU for following dates) 1960 x 2 1960-D 1961 1963 x 3 1963-D 1964 1964-D 1965 x 4 1966 x 2 1967 1969-D x 3 Â 2009-D Â All in all, quite possibly my best search to date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saor Alba Posted June 16, 2011 Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 Silver nickels are just so flipping exciting to find, as are Buffers. Incredibly I have retired 9 of the little darlings in the past month, along with the two Indians. Thanks Finn for getting me on the nickel kick, I had pretty much been mining cents for the past 4 years and was getting a wee bored with them. Halves were good to me a couple of months ago with the big find, but have been a bust ever since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn235 Posted June 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 Got off work today just in time to grab another box:  Dateless buffalo  1939 1941 1942 1943-P x 2 1946 x 3 1947-S 1948 x 2 1949-D 1953-D 1954 1956 1956-D 1957-D 1958 1958-D x 2 1959 1959-D  Also, here are some photos showing off just what you can find in $1,000+ in nickels:  1891 V Nickel  11 Buffalos, ranging 1917(?)-1937(?)  21 war nickels, including....  The ugliest war nickel I've ever seen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saor Alba Posted June 16, 2011 Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 I searched $800 worth of halves, churned up 11 40%'ers and no 90%. Then I sifted through $100 worth of nickels earlier this afternoon - no buffers, a '43-P and a 45-S, several other pre-1960s, and several S-mints. Also got several of the pre-1980 Canadians, a Cayman Island 10c coin, and a British 5 pence. I do love the instant bingo of finding that silver, my favourite teller more or less had to convince me to take the $800 in halves - usually I have no luck with halves. The war nickels are a nice find too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted June 17, 2011 Report Share Posted June 17, 2011 Nice finds. I haven't done any searching in a long while. You folks have me enthused again. I'm asking for some rolls for Father's Day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saor Alba Posted June 17, 2011 Report Share Posted June 17, 2011 It pays to buy gift cards for bank tellers. I do like finding silver of any sort in my roll searches. But now I have $794.50 worth of halves that I am going to have to unload on my other bank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted June 17, 2011 Report Share Posted June 17, 2011 Very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saor Alba Posted June 18, 2011 Report Share Posted June 18, 2011 Most exciting find in the $60 I searched in nickels was a solitary Buffer, dateless. Found a decent pawful of pre '60 and S mints. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn235 Posted June 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 My usual bank didn't have any boxes from Brinks this time, so they gave me $100 in customer-wrapped rolls. I figured I'd give it a shot and see what I could turn up. Â 1940 x 2 1941 1946 (looks like it has a lamination error... pictures later) 1946-D 1946-S 1947 1947-S 1952-D 1954-D x 2 1956-D 1958-D 1959-D 2009-D Â 1975 Swiss 20 Rappen And... a free dime! It fell out of one of the rolls, but when I double-checked that roll, 40 nickels were present. Â It could have gone worse, but I think next time I will simply hold out for the sealed box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted June 24, 2011 Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 What's a sealed box? Â And I like that the 2009 date is considered as rare as a wheat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted June 24, 2011 Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 What's a sealed box? Â I'm going to guess machine wrapped, from corporate depositors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saor Alba Posted June 24, 2011 Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 Sealed boxes come from Brinks or other money handling companies. In my experience I usually have better finds with those, since they passed through coin counting machines and the coins rarely if ever get noticed. Customer wrapped rolls are a mixed bag - sometimes you get lucky, other times like one last week they are a bust. I bought $20 worth of customer wrapped last week and there was one 1958 well beaten up and nothing else prior to 1964 - obviously they had been searched prior and the '58 didn't make the cut of what the other collector wanted to keep. Now I am sort of being embargoed by means of having cleaned out all the nickel supplies at my local banks at least temporarily. So hopefully the lunch gift cards, and the sixpences handed out to tellers do the magic today or Monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saor Alba Posted June 24, 2011 Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 BTW one of my more fascinating finds in nickel rolls from a few years ago was a British 20p coin - seven sided - that was somehow masquerading as a nickel - and it was in a customer wrapped roll. Nothing like getting 30c worth of coin for a nickel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn235 Posted June 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2011 I DID IT! It took 3 years and more than 100,000 nickels, but I found a 1950-D!!!! It's in VF condition, which is unusual for that particular coin, from what I hear.  Here's the full count:  1938 1939 x 3 1940 1943-S 1946 1948 1948-D 1949-S (9.7 M) 1950-D (2.5 M) 1952-D 1953-D 1954 1956-D 1957 1957-D x 3 1958-D x 4 1961 BU 1963 BU 1967 XF 1970-D AU 1980-D BU  1985 Canadian   And here's the strangest one of all... a live silverfish! I can understand one getting into the coins, but the box was sealed and stamped "MAY 2011." I nearly jumped out of my skin when it landed on my hand and started crawling around, and promptly gave him a good squish! The moral of the story? Ours is a dangerous hobby!  But with this latest haul, I am down to a mere 4 coins before I complete the 1938-1964 set. '39D and '43D will be difficult to find, but with the monster '50-D out of the way, I think it should be downhill from here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted June 25, 2011 Report Share Posted June 25, 2011 Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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