Bag of Nickles Turns Up Different Surprise

[66Fairlane]

Got a bag of nickels Thursday hoping for some war nicks. No luck there but did find a few in the 40's and 24 - 1968 D all in MS-63 or MS-65.

 

[Greastart]

No war nicks....sorry. It's interesting; put any one of those next to a modern nickel and ask a non crh person which is a game token and which is real. They're gonna pick one from history. Those are beautiful! Today's coins look like something off the floor at a Chuck E Cheez!

Thanks for the post!

 

[scruggs]

Very nice!

 

[gravityrules]

Interesting to find those 68-D in uncirculated condition.

On a bit of a tangent, has anyone else noticed that the well circulated examples of later years Jefferson nickel obverse, the years with the 'strengthened design', look considerably worse than the earlier years?
I have noticed this effect on Kennedy halves too. While the revised designs are OK on proof and business strikes with minimal wear, they just don't look 'right' on worn coins.