A LOOMIS Nickel Bonanza including an AU 39-D!!!
Up until two days ago, I hadn't had the best luck with LOOMIS rolled nickels. Yesterday afternoon, I picked up $60 worth of nickels from my bank. $8 were generic rolls left in from my teller's box (which had produced a 27-S Buffalo earlier in the week), and $52 were from a brand new LOOMIS box she had just opened.
Later last night, I started to open the rolls... noticed right away something weird was going on... Most of these rolls had some Almost Uncirculated and Uncirculated coins from Philadelphia 1956, 1959, 1960, and Uncirculated coins from the mid-1970s... And most of them also had several pre-60s in them. In fact one roll had SEVEN of them! When it was all said and done, I had tallied 99 pre-60s from those 26 LOOMIS rolls including a 1937 Buffalo, and a 1938-D Jefferson.
Needless to say, the plan was get those other 24 rolls from that teller... I got there and was her first customer today. She had 18 of the rolls left so I took them all of course. I found A 1936-D Buffalo, along with 1942-D and 1949-S Jeffersons amongst the 71 pre-60 coins these rolls produced.
I then proceeded to my dump bank, and came back within the hour. I tried to find another teller who had LOOMIS rolls, and one of them had just gotten a box... So I took all 50 rolls, along with a generic roll... These rolls were likely from the same batch of coins as there were a lot of 1960 Uncirculated coins amongst them, along with Uncirculated coins from the mid-late 1970s. The only difference was that there were not as many pre-60s in them... I was finding up to 3 or 4 in some rolls. Several rolls in, I found a dateless Buffalo. A little later a 1949-S Jefferson... Then, things got crazy... I found a very nice 1938 Jefferson, turned it over, and there was that "S" mintmark!!! A 1938-S in EF condition! The very next roll produced the most valuable coin I have found in my life. I saw a 1939 coin with some mint luster on the obverse. I turned it over and let out a yell when I saw it had a D on it! The coin is very lightly circulated. A Choice AU coin... I never dreamed I would such a nice 1939-D in circulation... In the end these rolls "only" produced 37 Pre-60 coins... Ironically, the "Generic" MWR produced one Pre-60 - An EF 1951-S!
I found 5 other pre-60s amongst the other 15 rolls I went through the past two days, including another 1943-S. In total, I found 212 pre-60 nickels in two days of searching 4400 coins!!!
Up until two days ago, I hadn't had the best luck with LOOMIS rolled nickels. Yesterday afternoon, I picked up $60 worth of nickels from my bank. $8 were generic rolls left in from my teller's box (which had produced a 27-S Buffalo earlier in the week), and $52 were from a brand new LOOMIS box she had just opened.
Later last night, I started to open the rolls... noticed right away something weird was going on... Most of these rolls had some Almost Uncirculated and Uncirculated coins from Philadelphia 1956, 1959, 1960, and Uncirculated coins from the mid-1970s... And most of them also had several pre-60s in them. In fact one roll had SEVEN of them! When it was all said and done, I had tallied 99 pre-60s from those 26 LOOMIS rolls including a 1937 Buffalo, and a 1938-D Jefferson.
Needless to say, the plan was get those other 24 rolls from that teller... I got there and was her first customer today. She had 18 of the rolls left so I took them all of course. I found A 1936-D Buffalo, along with 1942-D and 1949-S Jeffersons amongst the 71 pre-60 coins these rolls produced.
I then proceeded to my dump bank, and came back within the hour. I tried to find another teller who had LOOMIS rolls, and one of them had just gotten a box... So I took all 50 rolls, along with a generic roll... These rolls were likely from the same batch of coins as there were a lot of 1960 Uncirculated coins amongst them, along with Uncirculated coins from the mid-late 1970s. The only difference was that there were not as many pre-60s in them... I was finding up to 3 or 4 in some rolls. Several rolls in, I found a dateless Buffalo. A little later a 1949-S Jefferson... Then, things got crazy... I found a very nice 1938 Jefferson, turned it over, and there was that "S" mintmark!!! A 1938-S in EF condition! The very next roll produced the most valuable coin I have found in my life. I saw a 1939 coin with some mint luster on the obverse. I turned it over and let out a yell when I saw it had a D on it! The coin is very lightly circulated. A Choice AU coin... I never dreamed I would such a nice 1939-D in circulation... In the end these rolls "only" produced 37 Pre-60 coins... Ironically, the "Generic" MWR produced one Pre-60 - An EF 1951-S!
I found 5 other pre-60s amongst the other 15 rolls I went through the past two days, including another 1943-S. In total, I found 212 pre-60 nickels in two days of searching 4400 coins!!!
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