V Nickel found in $100 box

[apush]

Last week I purchased two boxes and about 35 rolls of nickels. Its taken me this long to get going due to work hours, but I had to stop and post. I tried taking a pic with my cheapy digital camera, but I cannot obtain a close up shot--just too darn fuzzy.

As I was 2/3rd's the way thru my second box, I open the next clear-sealed roll. I spread the coins out and a 1908 Liberty Head V Nickel pops up. I was so suprised I ran down the hall yelling to my husband. Well, at best its worth a whopping $2.00 (G-4, my guess), but you would have thought I had won the lottery.

From my two boxes & rolls thus far:
1939 (2); 1940 (2); 1941 (3); 1942-D (1); 1943-P (2); 1946 (5); 1946-S (1); 1947 (1); 1947-D (1); 1948 (2); 1952 (2); 1952-S (1); 1953 (2); 1953-D (1); 1953-S (1); 1954-S (3); 1954-D (5); 1955-D (3); 1956 (1); 1956-D (1); 1957 (1); 1957-D (7); 1958-D (9).

Should I really be investing in nickels? Seems I did okay on the nickels, but it also seems a two-sided coin; that is, if I am getting this many, so is everyone else. And thanks to those last week who "straightened me out" on the war nickel v. the V nickel.
Thanks for any advice
apush

 

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[Silver crazy]

Nice job on the V,they are extremly scare in the wild. On another note nickels are my favorite,they only thing with them is unless you search a ton of them profit is not much, they are more for fun, you might want to get into hunting halves in quanity for greater pfofit. Thanks. Dennis.

 

[dasherhunting]

Very scarce Itold my 10 yr old he is fortunate to find one but I do a few hundred nicks a week and luv em usually always pull a war nick out of a box course my wife thinks Im nuts and doesnt care for crhing at all hopefully when I retire in 25 yrs (hopefully) shell see the light if I can start to part with my booty to help supplement old age.

 

[mountainman 2]

Congrats, i'm still waiting on my first V. I agree, nickels are fun to search.

 

[obsessedwithsilver]

I'm waiting for my first V as well. Nice to hear they are still out there.

OWS

 

[mistergee]

congrats on the V....they are rare in the wild. most do nickles here because you almost always have a decent # of keepers.