3/21/07 casino nickels

[Immy]

$40 again but no keepers except the Canadian -

1940 (2)
1940-S
1951
1953
1953-D
1953-S
1954-S (2)
1955-D
1958-D
1959-D

Canadian: 1984

The 1951 was a first-timer this year. Just 12 more to complete the Jefferson series.

 

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[the.silver.standard]

I always like reading the posts of another casino hunter.

I think I read that you typically search downtown casinos- My question is, how do you decide whether you are going to search halves, nickels, etc. on a particular day? Is it getting pretty difficult to return the halves?

 

[Immy]

I think I read that you typically search downtown casinos- My question is, how do you decide whether you are going to search halves, nickels, etc. on a particular day? Is it getting pretty difficult to return the halves?

Yup, four casinos along Fremont Street in the downtown area still have 50¢ slots. I usually hit those on my days off, but once in awhile I'll make a special trip after work. I like to do a round of searching and squeeze in a movie. It makes for a fun afternoon. I'll also try $100 in quarters just for the heck of it.

Nickels I do in a small casino that's about a five minute walk from my home. It's still completely coin-op but they don't have halves. That's why I'm able to have $40 to search thru virtually every day. They have such volume that I use them as my dump site for the boxes of nickels I get from the bank yet I still regularly find keepers.

However, I found a Nevada State Bank near me that has free coin counters so that'll be my dump site from now on. I easily dump halves at the Fremont Hotel (downtown). I have a canvas bag that I tote into the casino and dump them in the self-serve coin counter. Other casinos around town still accept halves at the cages but those days are numbered, so they tell me. The biggest local chain of casinos is putting Coinstars in all their properties.

One good development: despite the fact that the Strip casino where I work has gone coinless the employee vault still has a jet sorter for coins that vendors bring in. I may be able to buy their bags of nickels when they get filled. Woo hoo!

Sorry for the long-winded answer but I love chatting about this!

 

[coinlover]

do you keep the pre 1960 nickels, or spend them? do you spend the pre 1960 nickels you do not need for your collection and only keep the ones that you need?

 

[Immy]

do you keep the pre 1960 nickels, or spend them? do you spend the pre 1960 nickels you do not need for your collection and only keep the ones that you need?

The only pre-60s I keep are:

1938PDS, 1939PDS, 1941-S (large S), 1942-D (2 more will complete a roll), all wartime silver, 1948-S (5 more for a complete roll), 1950PD & 1955-P.

Once I complete a roll I stop collecting that date. The only non-silver exceptions are the coins from the 1930's. I'm working on my 2nd roll of 1938-P and my 10th roll of 1939-P. Everything else gets put back into circulation.