Got silver today

[yankeesfan4life]

I was hunting through a lot of nickels, and getting a lot of dirty rims that looked silver. Then I pulled a 1945P nickel. New to coin roll hunting so this is my first silver nickel, and my first silver coin.
Also my first thread.

 

[ArkieBassMan]

Congrats on #1.

I'm not 100% that this is what you do, but you cannot effectively roll hunt nickels by looking only at the rims. You'll have to date search each coin separately.

 

[enamel7]

Congrats on #1.

I'm not 100% that this is what you do, but you cannot effectively roll hunt nickels by looking only at the rims. You'll have to date search each coin separately.

What Arkie said. You can't edge search nickels.

 

[Greastart]

Welcome! Congratulations on your newest addiction. I've never searched nickels but have found a war nickel in the wild.

Listen to the advice from some of the old pros on here. They are generally a great bunch of people that are willing and eager to help get you going; even though it means that helping you potentially increases the competition they'll have to tolerate to continue CRH themselves.

Happy Hunting!

 

[Tommybuckets]

I spread the roll inside the cover of a large hard cover book, look them over with my X12 magnifier and pick out anything good I see. Then I shut the book flip it over and view the other side of the coins. Then I count them off in groups of five, put a handful of twenty in the tube, then twenty more and mark it so I and other hunters know its been picked.Then repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat... You would miss any rotated dies but everything else can be discovered. Edge checking nickels doesn't seem like an effective way to do it. Best luck!

 

[yankeesfan4life]

I look at the edges, then dump 'em out

 

[Poor Mans Gold]

With nickels, look at the date. Granted as the war nickel moves on it does turn brown because of the silver. I've been collecting since 1963 and look at the dates. War nickels that are not circulated still look like they just came from the mint. And I have found them. If a collector passes, the family sees rolled coin and says, "I want the cash." They turn them in for cash. If you rim search, you'll miss it and I will remove it for my collection. Come to Papa.

 

[enamel7]

Really does no good to mark rolls so other people know they've been searched. Wrappers get reused many time over. Many a searcher here has found silver in marked rolls!

 

[Poor Mans Gold]

You talk about "marked wrappers". I opened at CWR of halves years ago. The sides of the halves had been marked with a felt pen, meaning "I searched them". I look at dates. Sure enough there was a 1964 Kennedy in the roll. Granted, the rim was very dirty and looked like copper. It's in my collection.