Collecting Jefferson Nickels

JonNickelCollector. My daughter and I are doing the same thing. We have gone through 3 boxes already and have some more to do this summer when she is on vacation. It is a great thing to do with your kids. I'm trying to teach her how to do this, and with nickels, I think it's easy to do, and not too expensive. The problem I'm having is keeping her interested, but we do it occasionally and we don't overdo things. Sometimes she asks "can we sort coins today?" Welcome and share your stories of any finds. Enjoy the time with your son!

drdave,

How old is your daughter? My son is a high school freshman. He got interested in collecting from looking at my collection. He's been at it for probably close to 10 years now.

I mostly collected wheat pennies when I was growing up. After graduating from college in 1990, I collected nickels for a couple years, then did no collecting until a couple years ago when my son got me re-interested in collecting again.

The reason I got into nickel collecting back in 1990 was that I found a number of older nickels in change and was not finding older pennies as much and not older dimes or quarters at all. I realized that since the Jefferson nickels had not changed much in appearance for decades, their were still older nickels left in circulation and the nickel was the best coin to try to collect from circulation.

My son will inherit my collection someday also, but hopefully not for a long time.

My son had registered as DanNickelCollector.

I believe that I have at least one complete roll of Jefferson nickels in Proof condition for 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 and 1964.

Is there any value to these?

By Proof, I mean Proof, some toned Blue and some toned bronze.

@Freedom-are you sure you do not mean MS condition? Proof is not a condition it is the way the coins were minted.

I have just started collecting nickels. Are there any variety in collecting them other then the 1939 DDR. I found 1 and that's when I started collecting. I can't find any real info on varieties or doubled dies. Please help. Also found a 1978 d that is a doubled die obverse.

JonNickelCollector: That's a really great idea. You won't see generally as many of the earlier dates (1939-1955) as you did in the 1990s but hey its worth the work. A lot of dealers like myself don't really like to mess with say 1940-1955 unless they are AU or better cause under those grades many of those dates aren't worth more than $2.00 or even $1.00 and that's a bunch of work to flip those coins and then photograph them if you are selling online like I do. One thing you might try if you go to a coin show is find a dealer that has a lot of modern U.S. By that I mean the coins with the late presidents on them. A lot of dealers that do any sort of volume in this stuff will buy full sets or partial sets and they might be willing to sell you a partial set. For example lets just say the dealer bought a Jefferson set that had 50 coins in it and 10 of those were BU. He really bought the set for those 10 coins and he might be more than willing to unload those 40 circulated ones if you are willing to buy the whole thing.