Nickel roll searches

[nickel sorter2017]

Resuming my childhood hobby - searching nickel rolls. I sort them all by date. Closing in on the first $1,000 in rolls. I am a semi-pro collector.
1938 - 1
1939 -12
1940 - 29
1941 - 22
42 non-silver - 4
silver nickels - 6
1946 - 20
47 - 13
48 - 15
49 - 16
50 - 2
51 - 6
52 - 11
53 - 15
1954 - 20
55 - 10
56 - 12
57 - 28
58 - 38
59 - 31
60 - 32
61 - 73
62 - 66
63 - 93
1964 - 677
65 - 37
66 - 23
67 - 36
68 - 36
69 - 95
1970 - 197
71 - 101
72 - 138
73 - 190
74 - 206
75 - 149
76 - 278
77 - 210
78 - 170
79 - 218
80 - 276
81 - 217
82 - 177
83 - 277
84 - 339
85 - 274
86 - 209
87 - 233
88 - 411
89 - 428
1990 - 363
91 - 340
92 - 282
93 - 323
94 - 440
95 - 589
96 - 521
97 - 353
98 - 467
99 - 807
2000 - 893
01 - 407
02 - 404
03 - 241
2005 bison - 159
2009 - 9

buffalos - 2... 1925 dateless and 1936 vg

Some dates are harder to find than others on this site claim. Where are all the 1956, 1966, 1968 and 1971? I would recommend saving anything nice after 1956 to 1975. Nearly all are not even close to nice. From 1976 on nice coins can be found in rolls often enough.
My best one was the 1938 D Jefferson in XF/AU.
I have been collecting since 1967 off and on, and I have never found a circulated 1939 D or a 1950 D.

Hope this has some value to others on here. The 3rd most common date was 1964. Nearly every roll has one.

 

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[FormerTeller]

Nice statistics. Thanks for the info!

 

[Goose-0]

Nickel Sorter, I have a large Jefferson nickel collection and yrs ago I noticed that the 1955 (P) was the 7th lowest Jefferson nickel minted. I think it might be a sleeper with 'only' 7.888 million minted, so I loaded up on them from eBay. The 6th lowest minted was the 1951-S.

 

[nickel sorter2017]

Nickel Sorter, I have a large Jefferson nickel collection and yrs ago I noticed that the 1955 (P) was the 7th lowest Jefferson nickel minted. I think it might be a sleeper with 'only' 7.888 million minted, so I loaded up on them from eBay. The 6th lowest minted was the 1951-S.

Some people like to collect based upon lowest mintages, others like to collect based upon oldest date. That's OK.

But... with coins the hoarded rate and attrition rate have to be factored in too.

I am certain that the rarest Jefferson regular issue is the 1939 D. I have never found one in circulation It is 'hands down' the toughest one. The 1950 D isn't rare at all. You just can't find them in circulation because they were hoarded in 1950. Dealers have rolls of 1950 D UNCs. Technicality... sure, but also fact.

The 1938's were saved because it was the first year of issue. None of them are rare because dealers have them. But, they are all difficult to find in circulation.

The 1955 dated nickels were hoarded because is was the last year for San Francisco pennies. Then, the D over S variety was found and both the 1955 Ps and the Ds were hoarded. The P is not rare, but it is hard to find in circulation.

My point is that, in reality, it is relatively easy to find a nearly complete set of Jeffersons if you just want hole fillers... and the only really rare one is the 1939 D.

Which shows why Jefferson nickels are the only collectible type coin currently in circulation. The older Lincoln cent coins are impossible to complete unless you happen to fall into somebody else's spent collection.

I think that the fun thing about collecting Jeffersons is that you can still find higher grade coins for most of the dates - and the terms "key and semi-key" are more appropriate in this context.

Sad fact is -- you can buy a complete UNC set of Jeffersons AND the price is affordable if you are low income and save your money to buy them one coin at a time.

I found the 10th 2009 D nickel today. Still no P... but they are not rare as the dealers have them by the roll!

 

[Goose-0]

N S, I see you are quite involved in the Jefferson nickel. I am also and have been saving them for many, many snows. I have quite a collection and with few exceptions (Rolls), everything I have came out of circulation. I'll just post hard to get Jeffersons. 1938-D = 11, S = 8, 1939 D = 3, S = 6, War nickels 400+, 1950 (P) = 43, D = 0, but many Ds in rolls, and 1951-S = 8. I haven't collected any Jeffersons after 1963. For Ps, 1938 = 67, '39 = 76, etc. True, now I get maybe 2 or 3 good Jeffersons a year before 1960. I also have 2 Jefferson folders (filled I think) that I haven't looked at in 25 yrs.

 

[nickel sorter2017]

N S, I see you are quite involved in the Jefferson nickel. I am also and have been saving them for many, many snows. I have quite a collection and with few exceptions (Rolls), everything I have came out of circulation. I'll just post hard to get Jeffersons. 1938-D = 11, S = 8, 1939 D = 3, S = 6, War nickels 400+, 1950 (P) = 43, D = 0, but many Ds in rolls, and 1951-S = 8. I haven't collected any Jeffersons after 1963. For Ps, 1938 = 67, '39 = 76, etc. True, now I get maybe 2 or 3 good Jeffersons a year before 1960. I also have 2 Jefferson folders (filled I think) that I haven't looked at in 25 yrs.

I collected them most actively from about 1967 until 1983. Then, I quit. Found maybe 10 coins that I saved from general pocket change until this year.

I turn 60 this year and decided to use my meager savings to try and roll collect Jeffersons. Chances are that I will stop soon because I don't have a dump bank. I belong to 2 CUs and there are 6 branches within my usual driving area. One of the main branches will take them - I dumped $140 a month ago and will dump that again soon. But I'm still sitting on several hundred more 'dumpable coins'. I am looking for a third bank that will sell me the $100 boxes or be a 'dump bank.'

As I said in another post, dumping will become much harder as banks look to cut costs when interest rates rise and squeeze them similar to what happened in the late 1970s and early 80s. Although... once interest rates go up, people will start spending their savings... more coins will show up -- good for us collectors.

Thanks for your info, it matches mine when I was younger. Rolls then were filled with 1939P, 1940PDS, 1941PDS, war nickels, 1946P, 1954D, 1956-1962D, 1963PD, and 1964PD.

 

[Dozer D]

I'd love to turn the clock back to the early - mid '60's. Good coins were really flowing back then. If I only knew then what I know now, I'd be sending this post from some remote quiet island in the So Pacific. Ya, right he says. HH with the memories.

 

[Goose-0]

It also fun to collect Buffalo nickels and they were still around in the early 1960s.

 

[nickel sorter2017]

I added up my totals to date. I'm over $1,100 searched now. The 2012 has now surpassed the 1964 for 3rd most common date.
2016- not counted, spent
2015- 692
14- 655
13- 680
12- 798 (third most)
11- 515
10- 309
09- 10
08- 423
07- 626
06- 531
bison- 183
trees- 274
hands- 207
sailboat- 257
2003- 284
02- 498
01- 481
2000-1,047 (most)
1999- 971 (second most)
98- 547
97- 423
96- 628
95- 696
94- 526
93- 370
92- 329
91- 404
90- 441
89- 498
88- 489
87- 278
86- 254
85- 326
84- 388
83- 333
82- 218
81- 275
80- 338
79- 265
78- 205
77- 252
76- 329
75- 177
74- 254
73- 233
72- 164
71- 125
70- 242
69- 107
68- 46
67- 38
66- 27
65- 41
1964- 793 (fourth most)
63- 108
62- 74
61- 83
60- 40
59- 36
58- 44
57- 35
56- 16
1955- 12
54- 21
53- 19
52- 13
51- 7
50- 2
49- 18
48- 19
47- 16
46- 22
war nickels- 6
42- 6
41- 25
40- 32
39- 14
38- 1
buffalos- 3 (one with a full date)
Canadian nickels- 13
Mexican bimetal peso- 2

So.. there you go. I didn't get rich... but I did better than I had expected.
I have made 4 dumps of $140 each. Still have the rest. Oldest date I dumped was 1993.
I have yet to find any 2017 dated coins. This is very late in the year to be skunked on the newest date.

 

[Goose-0]

I noticed your '09 was only 10 while most of the others around that date were in the multi hundreds. I just noticed that the mintage of the '09 was approximately 1/5th of the other mintages of the yrs around that date. Good Lord, I don't have any....... what am I going to do? (possibly nothing.)