Nickel Searching Question

urbss

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Well, after my luck of finding a 1935 Buffalo Nickel during the competition: I cashed in my $80 in nickels, went right to the original bank that gave me the Buffallo and got another $80. So far I've gone through 1/3 of them and have some good older dates, filled in a few empty's in my nickel book and got a 1944-P War Nickel!!

I am finally finding some Canadian nickels (about 4 so far). I thought it was odd that I didn't find any in the first large batch of nickels during the competition.

Anyway, as far as the Canadian Coins, are there certain dates that are keepers or certain things to be looking for?

I don't know anything about Canadian money. Anybody know where to go for more info?

Thanks,
Urbs
 

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Immy

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A few things to know -

- Canadian nickels have only been the same size as US nickels since 1922

- From 1942-1962 nickels have 12-sides (all keepers)

- Commemoratives to look for: 1951 (dated 1751-1951), 1967 (1867-1967), 1992 (1867-1992), 2002 (1952-2002).

- 1970 and 1991 are low mintage years among moderns.


I've searched exclusively from casinos and the oldest I've ever found is 1978. For some reason older nickels are uncommon but it's probably a different story with rolls. From 1963-present I'm missing only 1970 & 1971.

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Are you telling me canadian nickels 1942-1962 are keepers or just US, Immy?

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Since the original post asked about Canadians, yes, that's what I meant. As far as I'm concerned any "Young Head" Queen Elizabeth II nickel or penny (pre-1965) is a keeper.
 

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