Thank you

[Narthoniel]

Hello,

I would like to thank all of you for divulging your secret coin hunting source, and helping me get introduced into it. I have been CRHing for a month or two now, and I am hooked. Since halves are hard to find, I have mainly stuck to nickles. For some reason, they are a lot of fun, and I enjoy hunting them more than dimes, quarters, or pennies. I have hunted some pennies, and found a few wheats and other neat coins. I would love to find an indian, but, nickles take priority . I have hunted some halves, and found about 20 silver coins now. I don't have a bank that will order boxes yet, but that may change. My wife hunted enough dimes to fill the 1965-present resevelt book and found one silver dime in the process!

I thought I would share my total finds in the nickle category with you all as a kind of celebratory thank you. I was not able to get enough boxes to satisfy me this weekend, so I spent some time sorting through and organizing my stash. I pulled my nickles into a few different categories, and started re-rollin them all.

For the nickles from 1939 to 1959 that had mintages of 95 million or more, I started solid date rolls. I excluded silver from this, as that is its own category . Here are the numbers of coins for the solid date rolls.

13 1939
40 1940
40 1941
25 1946
22 1947
28 1954d
40 1957d
64 1958d
62 1959d

The next category I set aside was in the form of bulk year rolls. Essentially two categories here. 40s and 50s I set aside, and any coins with more than 20 million mintage and less than 95 mintage all gets lumped into them. Makes sense to me anyway .

In the first group, I have the years as follows lumped together.
1940d 1940s 1941d 1941s 1942 1942d 1946d 1946s 1947d 1947s 1948 1948d 1949 1949d
Total nickles in this category: 79

And in the second grouping:
1951 1952 1952d 1953 1953d 1954s 1955d 1956 1956d 1957 1959
Total nickles in this category: 146

The next category was for nickles with mintages of less than 20 million. Those not listed I have not found any of as of yet.
1 1938
2 1949s
3 1950
3 1951d
1 1951s
4 1952s
3 1953s
1 1955
2 1958

Then there are the real goodies! Silver! Buffalos! Proofs! And my recent V nickle!

Silver!
19 (My wife's step father added 1 or 2 nickles to my book, and I am not sure which or how many exactly. Did not adjust my count since I am not sure.)

Buffalos!
1 No Date
2 1937
4 1936
1 1917

Proofs!
1971s
1977s

V Nickles!
1891

So all together I have pulled 610 pre 1960 nickles! Give or take a few, as I am sure human error has had an effect here somewhere. This does not account for the solid date rolls of coins from 1960 to 1971(skipping the high mintage dates of course). I have several full rolls, and many rolls in progress in this date range.

I have no idea how many nickles I have hunted through now. If I had to guess I would say roughly 50,000. But, again, I kept no true record, and I dont have much interest really. It is fun to know, but doesnt affect the good finds afterward. In other words, too lazy .

The bottom line is that without all of you folks, I never would have been smart enough to dig into the bank vault, and snag the good coins hiding there. Thank you for allowing a stranger to join your midst and join in the hunt! The treasure is only half the fun afterall isnt it?

My sincere gratitude to you all,
Anthony

 

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[Narthoniel]

Pictures!!!

And, as I feel should be included, some photos of my better finds! Sorry for the large photos, but wanted details to be visible.

These 4 coins are nearly flawless. There is some detail loss, but very very little, and they are gorgeous.
1940 1958d
1939 1951s

The silver horde!!

Where the buffalos roam!

And the fabled V!! And the proofs as well. Notice the luster on the 77s!!

 

[mistergee]

nice nickles Anthony...thats quite a bit of nickles searched in a month or two...i only been at this for around 3 or 4 months and have already accumulated quite a bit of silver...i too owe that to the people here on T-net....i had accumulated some silver and wheats that i found in change over the years....starting around age 8 or 9...but nowhere near what i have found CRHing....i also owe you and BBcardsRI for getting me into nickles and dimes...just didn't even think about them till you guys showed some of your finds...now i do them when i can't get to a new bank...i rely on handrolls and loosies as this has been more successfull than ordering machine rolls...so while i'm waiting for the next new bank or the old ones to replenish themselves with new (old) halfs...i'll be doing dimes and nicks...i guess pennys and quarters are next ....man what a hobby

 

[BBcardsRI]

Yikes... that 71 proof is DESTROYED. 77 is still nice looking though.

I really appreciate the stats, its always nice to see the numbers of a fellow nickel hunter. =)

I wish you luck in your future hunts and hope you can find a bank that will order for you so you can not only knock out sets of coinage but also build up some ounces of silver.

~Dave

 

[Shake-N-Bake]

Congrats on your nickels, and welcome to T-net. This site is a great place to meet great friends that have alot of knowledge in what they do. The greatest part to the friends here is that they are willing to share their knowledge with total and complete strangers it just shows that there is still great friends to be found.

Again great job on your nickel finds, so far with all the nickels i searched i have never found a silver or buffalo. just some pre 1960's

Happy Hunting,
Jason