The Goal: 25,000 Rolls Of Nickels (All Searchers Welcome!)

Thanks guys, for your advice.

I went through five rolls (picked out a few nice ones) and pulled five unopened ones for myself. I'm done with them. Just don't feel like searching through more than that. I'm leaving a total of 40 unopened rolls and 4 searched ones to sell.

Although these are clearly UNC, most of them didn't seem to be in as good shape as the box of '07p I found recently. I think I cherry picked some real good ones there (not to mention the slew of errors I found). Just seemed to be bag marks on most of these '05p. This may not be the case for many of them but I didn't get far enough to find out completely.

I found one minor error out of the five rolls I opened. The N in IN GOD WE TRUST was mostly missing. There was a black smudge on the coin in this area. Is this grease from the dies or something?

Do you folks have any suggestions on the best venue I should consider for selling these full UNC rolls? Should I just offer them on the for sale pages or auction here? What kind of price do you think should I expect to get out of them?

I found a couple of auctions for these on ebay. One just ended this evening for two rolls and the sold price was only 3.25! Whoa! Less than face value. His shipping was 4.60. Hope he/she was able to cover the loss. Don't think I want to go with ebay right now so please let me know what some of you would do yourselves?

Thanks for all the help!

I am wondering, are these STRING and SONS or DUNBAR rolls or just the bank paper around them? If they are the banks own roll jobs, they would show more toss around bag marks.
I'm on the fence now of what to do with them, if I were you, since you say 5 rolls searched were very "nicky"

If that might be the case, I would probably just go through them all and reroll them in the typical flat nickel wrappers and resell them on the internet at 3 bucks each, describe them as MS 60 or better and keep the very best in 2x2's.

If you are rotating rolls at banks, ( I used to go to 4 or 5 banks on my milk route, take nickels I looked through to one for bills and take my bills to another for more rolls ) you might even consider taking what you don't want back to the bank.

I would never just take them back to the bank for a chance at old ones, without first having looked through every nickel. These are UNC's, you know there has to be something good in a whole box.

I don't know if this forum has a for sale section, if it does, maybe you could sell those other 40 rolls for 100.00 (for example) and charge 10.00 for priority shipping insured in a flat rate USPS priority box. Somebody might be interested and you would make your money back.

Wheezy,

I don't know what String & Sons or Dunbar wrapped rolls are. Mine have both ends rolled/tucked. The wrapper is brown craft paper with blue lettering around each end. They look similar to the ones on ebay; Item # 380001626080 "10 BU BANK ROLLS 2005P JEFFERSON BISON NICKELS". The differences with the ones I have is the color of the wrapper and there's no lettering running lengthwise along the side of the roll, just around each end. Don't know if this tells you anything about the company that rolled them or not.

At this point I might see how many I can get through tonight to look for errors and chioce BU's. Then I'll take them all back to the bank tommorrow because I need the money for something else that can make more money for me (I buy and sell precious metal-bearing scrap items). Maybe then I'll have enough $ to order the box of halves I've been wanting to get .

If you are interested in some of these rolls wheezy, I would be happy to set aside no more than 10 rolls for you. Then, once you're up to your 50 posts/14 days, I could sell them to you @ $3.50 per roll, unopened, plus shipping. If you are interested in that deal let me know before tommorow. If anyone else wants some and will take them right away I may do the same deal for you.

Since this is my second box of unopened uncirculated nickels, out of just four boxes, I won't be suprised if I come accross more in the near future. I don't think there's anyone else in my area that's searching nickels. Halves are a different story.

As for how I'm rotating rolls. I get them at one bank and dump them at a completely different bank. The only time I buy rolls from the same bank is the first time I ever visit that particular bank. But not after I start dumping there. The bank I buy from uses one armored car service (AT Systems) and the rest of the banks in my town use Loomis and Brinks (I think).

ns string and song and dunbar are just the companies that make coin wrapping paper
a bank will buy paper from them to use in their coin wrapping machines

Wheezydog,

E-mail sent.

Wow, you had a busy weekend! Great ebay win there - 3 1950Ds and War Nickels? Excellent!

You can always replace the bought ones with the future finds. This way you have your set anyway.

This thread sparked some interest for me, so I brought home a $100 box. I must say, it is very enjoyable. I was getting kinda burnt on pennies, so this will be a great change for me. Besides, I dont even have a start on nickels until now I guess :D

Todays finds so far 40 rolls

23 1960 and older.
4 War (45S, 43P, 44P, 45D)
1 Buff (barely read it, but I'm pretty sure its a 1923)
Couple canadians and a few hole fillers BU.

Lots of fun so far! :)