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Aristarchus 123 - I've recently lowered my nickel box searching to 2 per week due to constraints of time. In my prime, I was searching 7-10 boxes per week and if I couldn't get to a few of them I just kept ordering and they started to pile up quickly. The time consuming part is rolling/bagging and returning them to the bank, but I've got a pretty good system where it takes me about 20 minutes to roll 1 box. A few years back I remember picking up 3 boxes of nickels with a specific 4 digit FRB teller stamp and ended up finding 5-8 buffaloes per box. I ordered 8 boxes for the next week, hoping for the same code and sure enough I found more buffaloes. My friend and I drove around to various banks and ended up getting 43 more boxes with the specific code. It was a lot of work but ended up finding almost 300 buffaloes and plenty of War Nickels too! During that week I'd go though 5-7 boxes per day... Was great to both begin and end the day digging through a box of coin! This is just one of many great stories of coin hunting in the wild over the last dozen years. I'll post the results on New Year's Day! Happy hunting!
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I'm buying some popcorn stocks!
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i did that with pennies last year.ive got 83 rolls with wheats on the end and one indian head.still havent opened them yet
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Pillar of the Community
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I see a couple of V nickels. So what was the final tally?
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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2 V nickel Enders... Just finished the box... I'll post the results later
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Amazing! I've never seen anything like that before. It must have been a dump into a coin counting machine that got rolled up by Brinks, et al.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I am still amazed at the two V-nickel end rollers; to find one would be a spectacular find, and you have two! Awesome!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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So where are the results?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Still waiting.......
Happy New Year!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Come on, don't leave us in suspense  for too much longer.
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Pillar of the Community
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My apologies for the unnecessary suspense. It ended up being a busier new year and week than I had initially planned for, BUT, the results are in! So here's what I found: 42 pre 1960 2 'V' Liberty nickels26 buffalo 35 war -One buffalo ender roll had 8 buffalo in it. If I remember correctly, I found almost 50 buffalo in the box the roll came from. -2 war ender rolls each had an extra War Nickel in the roll And now for some pics:      Sorry the pics aren't the greatest- they were taken with my phone . Enjoy!
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