1 Good Nickel Box and one GREAT Nickel Box

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My girlfriend picked up 2 nickel boxes for me while I was at work. When I came home I do what I always do which is check the ends of the rolls first to see if there are any goodies and save those rolls for last. One was a Brinks box and there wasn't anything good on the ends of those rolls. The other box was rolled at the bank (they have a large rolling machine on site). When I checked the ends of those rolls there were about 15 that had some pre-60's showing so I had a feeling it would be good....but never this good. Between the 2 boxes I got 332 pre-60's and 3 war nickels. I know its not as good as silver, but it was the most fun I've had CRHing in a long time. I attached the pics of the pile and another of the pile organized by date starting with the 30's on the left moving to 1959. Enjoy!

War Nickels - 3
1938 - 1
1939 - 13
1940 - 53
1941 - 67
1942 - 9
1946 - 50
1947 - 33
1948 - 23
1949 - 23
1950 - 0
1951 - 2
1952 - 4
1953 - 6
1954 - 6
1955 - 7
1956 - 7
1957 - 2
1958 - 12
1959 - 14

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[AGCoinHunter]

Nice! Doing nickels this evening also but not quite having the luck you did. If I could get 1 buff and a few wars I would be happy... Any key dates in there?

 

[golden silver]

Incredible nickel score. Man there has been some great scores lately. Good job

Golden Silver

 

[Darth Walker]

When doing nickles what are the keepers?

I am ignorant when it comes to nickles.

The vast majority are not silver. Why keeping them?

Please advise

Darth Walker

 

[mistergee]

thats one hell of haul. thats why i like nickles. there's almost always something to keep

If I could get 1 buff and a few wars I would be happy...

the very first time i did nickles i went to a bank in a small town. i asked for $40 dollars worth. i was just sampling to see how many customer rolls i could get. the theory was that the bank will give out the customer rolls first and then the machine rolls. i wanted the customer rolls. i think about half were customer rolls and thats where the finds were. i found
3 buffalos 1920,1929,and a no date. 2 war nicks 1943p,1944p, 28 pre 1960's and 1 1999 Canadian.
pretty good finds all at once. go for the customer rolls, i bet you find some goodies soon.

 

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Nice! Doing nickels this evening also but not quite having the luck you did. If I could get 1 buff and a few wars I would be happy... Any key dates in there?

Nope, no key dates.

When doing nickles what are the keepers?

The vast majority are not silver. Why keeping them?

Keepers for me are anything before 1960; hence the term pre-60's. I keep them mainly because I am trying to build as large of a collection of coins pulled from circulation as possible. Plus, the pre-'60 nickels have a lower mintage than most of the nickels minted after 1960.

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[Codes]

thats one hell of haul. thats why i like nickles. there's almost always something to keep

Thanks, mistergee. I ALWAYS pick up nickels when I pick up other denominations because I know there will be something there. Even though they aren't worth much at the time, I'm still saving them with the hope that I can pass something onto my kids that may have some value. I have seen a few rolls of pre-60's sell on feeBay but they didn't fetch much of a premium. Maybe someday.

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