Tried nickels for a change.....

[thurmownator]

......while waiting for some boxes of halves to come in.

Here are the results:

39P
40PX5
40S
41P
51D
54D
57P
57D
58P (sweet)
58D
59DX2
68SX2
70SX4
06P ( I was still missing)

..........a Canadian nickel ('87) & a 20 cent piece ('97) from Singapore.


No silver, and I am happy with those finds...........but I'll take halves any day.

 

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[tw656]

Are the nickels with no mint mark P?

 

[thurmownator]

Are the nickels with no mint mark P?

Yes. they moved the mintmark from the reverse (to the right of Monitcello) to the obverse (just below TJ's ponytail) starting in '68, but Philadelphia-minted coins didn't carry a mintmark when the mintmarks were on the reverse (except the silver-clad coins of 42-45; when they showed all mintmarks and they were on top of Monticello)

 

[bazinga]

Just writing to let you know that the 68S and 70S are nothing special (unless you can actually see that they are proofs).

 

[thurmownator]

Just writing to let you know that the 68S and 70S are nothing special (unless you can actually see that they are proofs).

Thanks, and I know that. It's just a habit I got into when I started collecting coins in the northeast in the late 60s; and saw so few from the "left coast".

 

[bazinga]

Just writing to let you know that the 68S and 70S are nothing special (unless you can actually see that they are proofs).

Thanks, and I know that. It's just a habit I got into when I started collecting coins in the northeast in the late 60s; and saw so few from the "left coast".

Yeah, when out detecting it is pretty rare to find any old coins around here with an S mint mark.

 

[TxTim]

What is so special about pre-1960 nickels?
I know about war nickels but why are the pre 60 TJ's valuable?

 

[bazinga]

What is so special about pre-1960 nickels?
I know about war nickels but why are the pre 60 TJ's valuable?

I collect them just to get rolls for each year and mint mark. They sell for a slight premium at my local coin club auctions of anything pre-1960. Sometimes $3-4 per $2 roll.

Plus, the first Whitman Jefferson nickel album / folder covers Jeffersons from 1938-1961, so that might be another reason people are collecting them as well.

Anybody else have any reasons?

 

[diggummup]

What is so special about pre-1960 nickels?
I know about war nickels but why are the pre 60 TJ's valuable?

I collect them just to get rolls for each year and mint mark. They sell for a slight premium at my local coin club auctions of anything pre-1960. Sometimes $3-4 per $2 roll.

Plus, the first Whitman Jefferson nickel album / folder covers Jeffersons from 1938-1961, so that might be another reason people are collecting them as well.

Anybody else have any reasons?

Well as far as nickels in general go,did you know they are worth 6.887 cents a piece as scrap metal at todays current rates? All nickels from 1946 to 2007. I agree about filling up your Whitman folders with them too.