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What Nickels Do You Keep?

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 Posted 01/25/2015  7:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CENTertainment to your friends list
As I was looking at mine today and realizing that I am gathering more than two folders worth, I debated when to stop pulling ones I already have. Then the question becomes what to do with them...
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 Posted 01/26/2015  09:41 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list
I keep all of the ones I get in change, which is why I will not search nickel boxes (yet). I will eventually give them to my son with a nickel album. "Have at it!"
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 Posted 01/26/2015  10:08 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CoinCollector2012 to your friends list
I keep the following

Non Jefferson nickels (Buffalos, V nickels etc.)
War Nickels
proofs
2009 P&D (they have a lower mintage)
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 Posted 02/08/2015  10:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BamaBoy to your friends list
I have been buying rolls of nickels for about a year now. I started buying them because the nickel is the only currently minted U.S. coin that the metal content is near the face value. I am aware of the wartime nickels having silver in them and I do separate those from the others...but, I keep ALL the nickels I purchase (usually ten rolls at a time) because when we have a monetary collapse... I'm hoping the nickel will still be considered money. I also keep all the pre-1982 pennies I get in change... For the same reason I buy nickels. Am I missing something here? BamaBoy
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 Posted 02/09/2015  4:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add yelimsexa to your friends list
Generally speaking when roll hunting, anything 1958 or prior. This is mostly because 1958 was the last year of the LWC and thus a good stopping point before the big climb of mintages, and also that my old 1993 Black Book stated 1959 as the beginning of the "Coins of these dates are not purchased by dealers". That said, I recently sold coins from this era on ebay about six months ago for only 1.5x face value, and because of this I don't hunt too many nickels these days. I would keep all S-mints/proofs (not 1968-70 non-proof strikes), War, 1955-P, 1950-P and D, 1942-D, all 1938's, all 1939's, and of course any Buffaloes or earlier. The problem with hoarding these are the fact they aren't worth too much given their weight and since I feel one coin with the best quality is sufficient, has made me move on toward Dimes/Quarters/Halves (I still like searching pennies on occassion). I would rather take my 1.3 average of silver dimes per box over a 1.3 average of silver war nickels/buffaloes per box anyday, as I found a 1943 Mercury dime the last time I searched a box of Dimes.
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 Posted 02/10/2015  3:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hammerrob to your friends list
Just War Nickels and pre-Jeffersons ... which amounts to one Buffalo nickel so far!
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 Posted 02/15/2015  6:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add FordF150 to your friends list
I keep all the rare ,low mintage coins in fine - ex fine condition.I even keep some 60-70-80's in uncirculated mint condition.Even tne 64 in mint condition.Their not worth anything now but in 10,20 years,who knows.
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 Posted 02/28/2015  7:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add crazyforATB to your friends list
pre-60 with the addition of 60,61,62 P, AND 68D, 2009
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 Posted 04/04/2015  11:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DaSlayer to your friends list
I usually keep all nickels that contain silver ((pre-1965)even though they are illegal to melt down), I also keep Buffalo nickels.
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 Posted 04/10/2015  1:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JonNickelCollector to your friends list
Since this thread started, we stopped keeping the 1942d as it is not a low mintage (under 10 million) nickel. I realized from asking on another thread that the reason we found less of them was because we are not near the Denver mint, so we returned our extras to the wild.
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 Posted 05/20/2015  04:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nighteagle to your friends list
I keep the pre 2006 Jeffersons that I need to complete the set.
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 Posted 05/20/2015  08:47 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Garoyn to your friends list
pre-1960 (except 54-D); 1960, 61, and 62 Philadelphia; 1968-D, S; 1969-S; 1970-S; and 2009-P,D. Essentially mintage <100,000,000.
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 Posted 05/20/2015  09:28 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Mister Kairu to your friends list
So I read what Yelimsexa posted... is that the main reason to save those pre-1960 nickels? Is there any other reason for that date?
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 Posted 06/01/2015  02:12 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add shadz to your friends list
i voted pre-1960 because tehre was no proper option for "Anything that will fill a hole or that you personally like"
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 Posted 06/01/2015  09:56 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list

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i voted pre-1960 because tehre was no proper option for "Anything that will fill a hole or that you personally like"
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