Completed my Jefferson CRH set today - with stats and pictures!!!

[Twitch]

Today I was dumping at 4 different banks and hit exactly one pick-up bank in between. Grabbed $5 in pennies, $20 in nickels, $50 in dimes and the only $20 they had in halves. Key find from that was a 1943-D war nickel I needed to finish my CRH Jefferson set. Super stoked to find it. Below are some stats and pictures:

Total nickels hunted: $24,146 (482,920 total nickels - not even half a million!)
War nickels: 154
Buffalo nickel: 247 (found 172 in a single dump)
V nickels: 11 (4 found with the buffalo dump)
Proof nickels: 39 (14 found in the same roll, along with MS P+D from the same dates)
Foreign: 77, not counting Canadian
Hardest to find: 1943-D, 1950-D - found multiples of everything else
Errors: 4 clipped planchet, 3 cuds, several nice die clash and greasers.

Overall there are some really nice coins in there. Thanks for looking.

 

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[Sleepy Holow]

Hey congratulations, Twitch! Quite the accomplishment along with some very nice stats. I wonder what the typical volume required to finish this set is...have you heard or read anything?

So what's next for you? Do you have any new near-term goals as you continue the hunt?

 

[Twitch]

Hey congratulations, Twitch! Quite the accomplishment along with some very nice stats. I wonder what the typical volume required to finish this set is...have you heard or read anything?

So what's next for you? Do you have any new near-term goals as you continue the hunt?

Thanks Sleepy. In regard to nickels I'll keep hunting them. Going to call this set 1 and start working on set 2. I hunt with my 2 boys and I'd like them both have a from circulation set for there collections. Plus I like hunting nickels. Earlier this year I finished my Kennedy set. I'm still working on my Roosevelt set (following your search as well). I've actually found nearly all the hard to find dimes. Once I complete Kennedy, 2 Jefferson's, Roosevelt and Eisenhower's I'll hang up my CRH'ing tools.

 

[Dozer D]

Scratch one item off your bucket list, job well done. How long did it take from filling that FIRST slot to now.

 

[Twitch]

Scratch one item off your bucket list, job well done. How long did it take from filling that FIRST slot to now.

April 2013 - November 2019 so 6 1/2 years...

 

[Dozer D]

April 2013 - November 2019 so 6 1/2 years...

When in that time span did you find your 1950-D key coin, or have you found more than one.

 

[Scott (Mich)]

Congrats Twitch! Looking at how many nickels it took you to complete your collection, I would have to search about 46 years total at my current rate, 10 years into it already. Looks like I'll have to step it up a bit. I only need three more from circulation to complete mine. I got lucky and found a 50-D last summer, so the hard one is out of the way. Don't have my list in front of me, but I need one of the '38's, a 43-D..or maybe the S, plus another in the 40's if I remember correctly. I could easily buy the three I need, but what fun is that? Happy Hunting All.

 

[Rosco53]

Congrats man! Jealous of the Buffalo and V nickel #'s there! 172 is a great herd to find!

 

[Twitch]

When in that time span did you find your 1950-D key coin, or have you found more than one.

I found the 1950-D in May of 2018

 

[Uncleslick18]

Awesome on completing the set!

 

[Megalodon]

Congrats! And thanks for sharing your interesting records. In the course of filling the book, did you replace already found coins with higher grades as you found them?

 

[Twitch]

Congrats! And thanks for sharing your interesting records. In the course of filling the book, did you replace already found coins with higher grades as you found them?

Yes. I would upgrade a coin in the book any time I found a better example.