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Pillar of the Community
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Quote:I found a 1999 WAM and sold it for $200... just one example. Danged, that's AWESOME! I've found two 1998 WAMs, but no 1999s or 2000s yet. CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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Nickels are a good idea, especially if you want to build a set from circulation.
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Adding my vote for nickels ... they are the only current circulating USA coin where it is possible (with a lot of perseverance) to put together a complete date/mm set from CRH.
There are at least 3 or 4 of us at the CCF who have done this.
David
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Adding my vote for nickels ... they are the only current circulating USA coin where it is possible (with a lot of perseverance) to put together a complete date/mm set from CRH.
There are at least 3 or 4 of us at the CCF who have done this.
David  Just one coin away... trying real hard to find it too! CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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Pillar of the Community
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Just 2 coins away over here!
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Pillar of the Community
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Just 2 coins away over here! Just keep plugging away! I'm actually just 4 coins away now on my 2nd set (39-D, 43-D, 55-P, and of course that same coin keeping me from finishing set #1 which a few others have been lucky enough to find)... CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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I CRH the Lincoln cents. I keep the wheat backs, Canadians, copper LMC, the 2009, and off centers. I have never found an Indian Head cent. Someday the US Mint will stop making the one cent coin. I will leave my hoard to my heirs and it may be worth something someday! What keeps me going is the thought that if some ancestor of mine back in the fifties had tossed their change into a jar, what would it be worth today? |
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Someday the US Mint will stop making the one cent coin. Hopefully.  |
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If I couldn't get half dollar me I would definitely do nickels. In my opinion nickels are more fun then dimes. Also I think a silver War Nickel will have more value then a silver dime on down the road. (Unless it's a better date or something). I had a lot of troubles with halves in my area. I first found a bank that would order them for me but wanted to charge me $5.25 a box after 1 month. So I again went bank shopping. It's very difficult to get someone to order halves. With the bank that I finally got to order me some, I called and asked if I could order half dollars. They said they don't order half dollars because they don't want them sitting in the vault. I told them I would take them all and their would not be any sitting in the vault. She then let me talk to the person that ordered coins and I told her what I was doing and that I would not be bringing them back there. And they are my ordering bank to this day. They are the only bank I use to order coins. So when you call and speak to them I would ask for the person that orders coins. And tell her you will not be bringing them back to them. In order to be successful with half dollars, you want to make sure that you follow this. Even if they say you can, DONT. The one I have now will order me up to $5000 I really haven't tried any more than that. And I order every week. |
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My advice: Establish your requirements - what denomination(s) do you want to hunt? Why do you want to hunt them? What are you looking for? Create a plan - How will you get your coins? Which ones will you keep? How will you return your coins? Work out the logistics - What banks will you use? Do they charge for returns? Do they have a coin counter? Are there limits? For me, I search cents and nickels looking for older collectible coinage, errors and varieties, and high grade specimens. Searching a box of cents will yield dozens of coins that fit this description. Refining your requirements will help create focus on what you want to keep so that in the end, you aren't sitting on boxes of cents with little collectability. For instance, saving all minor class 9 DDRs (unlisted) wasn't a realistic endeavor. It won't take long before you fill up a plastic cup before you realize that there isn't much juice in the squeeze (note: finding these DDRs will help you build confidence and reduce the frustration). Create boundaries/limits (specifications) around what is worth keeping...and what is worth returning to the bank. Nickels are similar, but I think has a better payoff (in terms of building a set from circulation). A box of nickels yields a number of early specimens (mainly Jeffersons, but some Buffalo and V nickels), a few variety Jeffersons, maybe a few errors (clashes mainly), and a number of BU coins. Of course, most BU coins are newer, and you can't keep them all. I build rolls by date/MM, so I am keeping the best 40 (or so) coins I find for each (lower grade coins I had get returned). Believe it or not, its hard to build BU rolls from the 70s and 80s. Harder than for the 60s, 90s - forward. From a value perspective, the more valuable nickels you find CRH are variety Jeffersons from the 60s. Most folks toss these back into circulation. So spend some time, establish your objectives, list your requirements, and develop a plan. Work that plan for a bit. If it isn't meeting your expectations, revise the plan and move forward. Most importantly, try to enjoy yourself and not become frustrated. And feel free to ask us questions - we are here to help! Good luck on the hunt! |
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PS - If you search dimes/quarters/halves for silver, you will be in competition with other coin hunters....and a number of silver hunters (with zero interest in numismatic value). Silver is picked over pretty well as a result, so you need to be fortunate enough to get boxes (MWRs or CWRs) that contain a collection dump. It happens...a number of our CRH enthusiasts in those denomination camps have hit the 'lottery'. But a number of them do high volumes in order to put themselves in position for that event to occur. If I hunted dimes/quarters/halves, I would do so the same way I hunt cents/nickels; expecting to find silver isn't realistic enough so working the coins for their other hidden treasure/value would be my angle.
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Valued Member
United States
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I personally have the most success with nickels. I find silver in every box (how ever little it may be). I find at least a 1940 in every box too. I have only had one nickel box I was highly disappointed with. Happy Hunting!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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With my limited experience, I just got my first box of nickels. First, there was a 1943 War Nickel ender and a 1941 ender without searching the rolls. I've done 10 rolls of this box and really nothing special other than that except some nice examples to fill holes in my circulation album. I've only searched 5 quarter rolls, but did find a 1960 silver. I don't expect that to translate to a whole box. It's all chance but I think the War Nickels may get overlooked more than pre-1965 quarters, dimes and halves. In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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01/15/2017 02:09 am
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Valued Member
United States
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Lots of excellent advice on this thread.
All I can add is that you should have fun doing it!
My favorite denominations are cents and nickels. The one box of dimes I did yielded a Mercury and a silver Rosie. The box of quarters and the box of half dollars yielded nothing but base metal trade tokens, though there were some nice NIFC halves in the mix.
I've pretty much stuck to cents and nickels.
Since I'm the rare guy who won't take a box back to another bank, it takes me a while to offload the slop. $10 or $20 worth of rolls at a time are recycled. Half dollars (I still roll search them) get fed into a self checkout machine that's known to take them if I'm doing a ten dollar grocery run or something.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I too would recommend nickels. Its actually possible to complete a full set of business strikes roll searching for Jefferson nickels, several people on the forum have done it. I would recommend buying nickel folders or a dansco, and trying to complete the series. You'll find other things interesting things along the way. |
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