Has anyone really become good at searching Nickels that they can edge search?

[SFBayArea]

I don't do nickels and I've only done one nickel box in my life. No war nickels in that box but one corroded buffalo.

Has anyone here been so good with spotting War Nickels based on rims that they can edge search a box of clear wrap nickels? Just curious if there is a faster way of searching them other than looking at each and every coin?

I don't care that much about dateless Buffalos or pre-1960 ones and would prefer to get the War Nickels out quickly if possible. I know they mostly have a dirty grimmy look on their rims. I'm thinking most likely not but thought I'd still throw it out there.

 

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[huricanesrul]

had a war nickel find today ( 7 war and 4 buffalo's in $300 ) 1945 it was mint . it looked like it was just taken out of the proof set by some kid.....no way rim checking would of found it ! ! !

 

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[SFBayArea]

Searching nickels has been fruitless for me so far in terms of finding something really good. Perhaps it's just my area. I'll stick to rim searching dimes any day. Most nickels you can tell right away if it's old based on the die variety. The pre-64 dies do not have as much detail as the later ones. As some here have mentioned, I laid them out of the roll and onto a table and give a quick glance.

WHy do people search boxes of dimes where they're paper wrapped? It's pretty much close to searching nickels and takes forever. It's really not worth it if you're looking through a whole box and get one keeper which is average.

 

[justicious]

I have done 2 boxes of nickels and in each one I got 2 war nickels and in the last on I got a dateless buffalo. I personally love nickels because they take so much time. With dimes I go through the 2 boxes I get in 30-45mins and I'm done for the whole weekend. Nickels slowly get done and feed my crh addiction.

 

[$nack-Money]

it can be done where you can recover 90% of the war nickels (in my experience of around 100 boxes total). You can tell the difference between the war nickels and dirty rim nickels by the slight pitting on the war nicks. The pits themselves look as if they are worn to an extent. Of course, by the time you examine a potential war nick that closely, you might as well yank it from the stack to date check. I quit doing the nickel boxes myself due to the extreme weight per $100 box, as well as low yield (my average per box turned out to be .92 per box. As stated earlier, edge checking will cause you to miss the AU conditioned ones though. HH- $nack