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I Started A Nickel Collection 1938 - 1961

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 Posted 10/16/2013  7:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jack jeckel to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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Wow WTG on the 55-D and to top it off you got a box for half price !


You sure you weren't thinking 1950D?

The 1955P is much harder to find than the 1955D. I have only found 3 1955P out of over 100 boxes.
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 Posted 10/16/2013  8:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Afterimage to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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Wow WTG on the 55-D and to top it off you got a box for half price !

Thanks!



I order boxes of nickels at least twice a week. They have always been $50 boxes. I did not know that I could order $100 boxes. Sweet! I'll find that elusive '50-D that much quicker!
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 Posted 10/16/2013  8:14 pm  Show Profile   Check 52Raymo's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add 52Raymo to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It was one he needed and had been trying to find.
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 Posted 10/30/2013  7:00 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Afterimage to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I've been on a 2 week vacation from work, so I haven't been searching any rolls lately. Today, I went back (felt like I never really left, know what I'm sayin'?) and right off the bat I found a nice '53-S!

7 more holes to fill!

The rest are gonna be tough. '38-D, '38-S, '39-D, '43-D, '44-D (I have a hard time with the D War Nickels in my area), '50-D, and '51-S.
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 Posted 10/30/2013  7:42 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add atticguy to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I just caught on to this thread today.
Congrats on all of your finds. Nickels were the first coins I earnestly collected due to the relative ease of finding most varieties in change and by roll hunting. There were a few I broke down and bought but the majority I found; much more enjoyable that way.
Unfortunately a coin collecting buddy found out I was saving nickels and he gave me two Littleton albums to put my nickels in, instead of the folders I had. I say unfortunately because the albums had spots for "S" mints (the proofs), which for the most part I ended up buying. Now my set is complete, aside from new releases.
Still looking for 2013's, and I still have never seen any 2009 nickels in change or roll hunting. Did they ever release any into circulation? I had to buy the 'P' and 'D' 2009's to finish the collection.
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 Posted 10/30/2013  8:01 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Afterimage to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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Still looking for 2013's, and I still have never seen any 2009 nickels in change or roll hunting. Did they ever release any into circulation? I had to buy the 'P' and 'D' 2009's to finish the collection.



I'm not sure about the 2009s. I just threw everything back that was in the 2000s, so I never really looked very closely at them.

I've seen plenty of 2013s, though. As a matter of fact I have 2 full rolls of 2013-Ds that are all BU.
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 Posted 10/30/2013  9:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Joseph7420 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Most (I am not sure if all) U.S. coins dating 2009 have a low mintage. I still need to find both 2009 nickels
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 Posted 11/08/2013  8:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Afterimage to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I got one of the key dates today! I searched a $50 box of nickels and on the last roll I found it! When I first looked at it, I thought it was a '58-S. Upon closer inspection, I realized the 5 was actually a 3.

So without further ado:

1938-S

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I'm gonna post it in the modern coin grading sub-forum. Please tell me what ya think!

6 more holes to fill!
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 Posted 11/09/2013  1:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add atticguy to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Nice find! Happy you took a second look at it, as at first glance it really does look like a 58. I hate those fonts that are hard to read.
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 Posted 11/09/2013  8:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Afterimage to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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Nice find! Happy you took a second look at it, as at first glance it really does look like a 58. I hate those fonts that are hard to read.


Yeah, my eyes aren't what they used to be. I stared at that thing for a few minutes trying figure out the number.

I even showed it to a few people at work with mixed results. I was finally able to determine that it was a '38 after I took a photo and blew it up.
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 Posted 11/10/2013  01:44 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jack jeckel to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Nice 1938S

The last one I need.
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 Posted 11/10/2013  6:59 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add wheatchaser140 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Nice finds! What a great collection so far, and I wish you good luck completing it! Jefferson nickels were always one of my favorites. Not the new ones, though.
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 Posted 11/12/2013  12:47 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ClarkCoins to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Nice start you got there! I've been considering starting the early Jefferson collection, after I opened up a couple rolls and was very surprised at how many older ones there still are in circulation, obviously because of the composition
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Well, my coin collecting budget has been blown out of the water due to my wife totaling her car. She is fine, thank God.

I'm down to just roll hunting at work for the time being.

So...I found a '51-S today!

5 more holes to fill!
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