The Goal: 25,000 Rolls of Nickels (All Searchers Welcome!)

Hey Coppernickeldaddy !! See what you done did ? You started out this thread many responses ago......good going, I visit this thread often and I enjoy it !!
Hope ya'll are havin' a great night out there, I'm having some time off from the hunt and waiting for my food to come off the grill...I'll save ya'll a bite !!
Laura

i pulled 3 silver, a 1929 buffalo, and a 1955 out of two boxes this past week

seven to go (38d,38s,39d,43d,44d,50d,51s)

This is a milestone in this project. 2500 rolls! 10% of the way there!

After a couple of 100-roll results that were not-so-good, this 100 made up for them! Not as good as the person on another thread here that found 40 Buffalos in a box, but I found more than one in a box for the first time. Have to admit, though, I'd love to get a box like that! Anyway, here goes...

100 rolls
43 pre-1959
3 silver nickels ((2)1942P,1943S)
2 Buffalo Nickels (1929,1938d)
The 38d has a full horn showing and is at least VF!

GRAND TOTALS TO DATE:
2500 rolls
1053 pre 1959 (5 most common: 1940(90),1958d(88),1957d(85),1941(81),1946 and 1954d(55))
49 silver nickels (3 most common: 1943S(12),1943P(11),1944P10)
8 Buffalo Nickels (dateless,1920,(2)1927,1928,1929,1929s,1938d)
1 Proof (1993s)
3 Bermuda 5 cents (1970,1987,1996)
3 Bahamas 5 cents (1998,(2)2000)
1 Belgium 1 Franc (1975)

DATES NEEDED TO COMPLETE SET:

38d,39d,43D,44D,44S,50d,51s

Keep up the great finds!

Finally figuring out how to post photos, so here are a couple of photos of things found during this nickel roll search.

First, the obverse and reverse of the 38d Buffalo pulled from a bankroll today:




and an overview of the 8 buffalo nickels found along with the 38s and 39s jeffersons:



those are my first posted photos; hope they came out!!

Great photos CND. I'm looking forward to finding my first buffalo. Got any pointers to offer that might help me to get some pics posted?

I finally got through my box of monotany...I mean...box of '07P nickels . Really though, it was kind of an enlightening experience.

1: I got the FULL opportunity to see what newly minted nickels are supposed to look like. And just to confirm-Yes they where ALL the same coin-'07P(all 2,000 of them). No blank or clipped planchets or other major stuff.

2: I learned alot about bag marks as well as just how nice a coin looks without them. I was fascinated by the vast variences that occur in brand new coins! Some looked pretty rough. Suprisingly some even appeared dirty. Others where just stunning, even under a loupe! Of course I kept a good number of those. If you're looking for full steps, this is the way to go.

3: I even happened to find a good number of errors! Granted, they where all the SAME error. I kept finding coins that had some or all of the letters missing in the word "TRUST". Now, there where only a very few examples wherein the letters where missing comlpetely. Most are what I started calling 'fading TRUST' errors. For example some had 'T T' with the middle letters only faded to one degree or another. A couple others that I liked actually read 'IN GOD WE RUST'(ranging from the 'T' missing or just faded). Thought that was a little humorous. In another real good example the WE and TRUST are nearly completely gone. Under good lighting you can barely make out some faint vestiges of the letters. Some of the ones that stand out the best are the ones that have the surrounding letters very well struck. Makes the faded letters appear even more absent.

Are these anything to get excited about? I don't know if you would consider them to be major or minor errors or even errors at all. I'm showing just how little I actually know about errors here . At the least, I thought they where pretty cool. I kept 40+ of the best examples.

I also hit up a Walgreens for 4 rolls each of nickels and cents on Sat night. I just couldn't go all weekend without looking at some older stuff . Oldest I found in the nicks was a '59D. The cents did at least produce one wheat for me- a 53D. Also one '99 canadian cent.

So, not a bad weekend nickel searchng after all. Thanks to all of you who made some suggestions as to my options on this full box of '07p. I was fully prepped to take 'em right back to the bank on Mon. But now I feel I'm a little more 'coin wiserer' for going through them instead.

In all, I held back three, randomly selected, unsearched rolls. One full roll of the finest specimens. And one full roll of errors.

Can't wait to see what tommorrows box will bring !

Sully,
Welcome to the Forum! And, a great start CRH'ing (coin roll hunting)! 2500 rolls I haven't found one of those yet.

Numi, searching new rolls is a crapshoot. You can find no errors at all, find something minor, or get rolls full of cuds and doubled dies. Most of what you are looking at came from just a small handful of dies, so you just have to hope that something major went wrong at the time your coins hit the hopper!

O-G,
Even though my son is only 4 he is starting to show a little bit of an interest in what I am doing (he saw a Buffalo Nickel and commented on the "cow"!). Having fun is the most important thing, and it's great to see young ones taking an interest. Especially with all of the distractions they have today.

Have 50 more rolls to go, and then the next update will post!

Here's the next update!

100 rolls
38 pre-1959
2 silver nickels (1944P,1945P)
1 Buffalo Nickel (dateless)

GRAND TOTALS TO DATE:

1600 rolls
1091 pre-1959 (5 most common: 1940(94),1957d(91),1958d(90),1941(81),1954d(56))
51 silver nickels (3 most common: 1943S(12),1943P(11),1944P(11))
9 Buffalo nickels ((2)dateless,1920,(2)1927,1928,1929,1929s,1938d
1 Proof (1993s)
3 Bermuda 5 cents (1970,1987,1996)
3 Bahamas 5 cents (1998,(2)2000)
1 Belgium 1 Franc (1975)

STILL NEEDED TO COMPLETE THE SET:
38d,39d,43D,44D,44S,50d,51s

Two more boxes are sitting on my desk; I'll go through those tomorrow!