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Isn't it better to keep a coin in circulation instead of destroying it to make others? You still have to add the steel and plate it, so it doesn't cut down on time. I just think that a coin is more useful in circulation even if it's 100 years old.
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 United States
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Found $7.45 in pure nickel coin in my dad's change jars. More coins saved from the ARP. Three nice ones from the millenial series.
Edited by DoubleEagle20
11/18/2013 12:18 am
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Canada
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What do you think will happen to nickel coin sets from 1968-80's, when the ARP finially gets all the nickel coins? I wonder if they will go up in value. It's sad how these sets are ignored by collectors.
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United States
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They have no where else to go but up. As nickel circulation pieces become rarer, especially in mint state, people will cannibalize the mint sets for collections.
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Nickels are a great place for new collectors to start! Lots still sitting around in jars and drawers; easy to buy most since 1920s.
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Valued Member
Canada
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I got a 1997 nickel, low 7, in change last week. I thought that was kind of neat.
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Canada
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I find more pre-1982 nickels floating around out there than 2013 nickels.
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United States
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There seem to be a good number of Ni coins stateside, its more common to find the old nickel canadians than the new plated ones, (that goes for all denominations). Not sure how relevant that is...
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Libertad said:
Isn't it better to keep a coin in circulation instead of destroying it to make others? You still have to add the steel and plate it, so it doesn't cut down on time. I just think that a coin is more useful in circulation even if it's 100 years old.
i know there is a numismatic that helped the government figure out what to do with the cent. he wanted them to keep them legal tender and to issue them in sets after they were withdrawn from circulation, and said "one out of 2 isn't bad"
i wish someone like him would convince them to immortalize the cent and use it as the core for the toonie. sure you have to do some re tooling, but thats a lot of "free" toonie cores.
then non collectors could even show their grandchildren the coin we used to use, (granted they will all be 1997 and newer).
same kinda goes for the nickle they are pulling from circulation, why sell it as scrap metal, when you could clean it and use it directly as your plating material? they want to save $$$ dont they?
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Valued Member
Canada
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oops, not a 1997 - it was of course a 1977 nickel. I have to start previewing my posts!
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Canada
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I'm now running less than 9%. boooo
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The steel coins are lighter, which complicates things for vending machines. Whether there is any actual cost savings is another debate.
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United States
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The recent trip across the border yielded me a Manitoba quarter, a July 2000 millennium quarter, a 1978 nickel and a 1986 dime. That was it. The rest was plated steel junk.
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New collector I went and got my first rolls of nickels ever today at the bank just poped in only had twelve bucks on me and got 27 pre 82 nickels out of that but nothing special really haven't looked at them to hard yet
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@wazzap: It would be pretty cool to see a double dated coin on purpose like that. But toonies are steel now. If they had thought of this back before 2001 it could've worked by pulling cents and nickels and the same time round purchases to the nearest 10 cents. Too late for that, because plating is pretty inexpensive.
I think that further you get from major cities the older the money gets.
Edited by Libertad
11/30/2013 2:30 pm
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