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

Another 100, 25 keepers, nothing special.

So far...

365 Rolls

181 pre-1959
6 silver
2 Buffalo

lol Numi, thats rough man. Nothing like a big let down huh?

I don't think there's a way to be certain your going to avoid a box of new coins--just plain old bad luck. I've searched 13 boxs now and haven't come across a solid date box just yet. I suppose this might start happening in a month or so, when the 08 nickels are being sent out in large amounts.

I'd save a a roll or so (can't hurt right?) and go dump the rest tomorrow morning and pick up another box before the banks close. Its too big of a disapointmint to sit on all weekend!

--Gary

Numi,
Take heart; that doesn't happen very often. It's happened to me twice (well, actually 1.99 times), one box I got was solid 2007P, and another I got had maybe 1 in every 100 coins NOT a 2007P. Don't give up on the sealed boxes yet!

Thanks all for the sympathies and suggestions. Guess I just hit it wrong on the first try huh? I'm resiliant though and it'll take more than that to put me on the bench .

Just want to mention that I didn't open a single one of these rolls yet. They are all those rolls that are tucked yet open at each end. Guess those are the fed wrapped rolls right? It was obvious that they were all in the same condition and all had the same dudes face showing on one end or the other. There were a few that showed tales on both ends but still obviously all the same.

I might take your suggestion GFR3 and hold back just two of them for the future. If I make it to my 60's or beyond that may be long enough for them to have appreciated. Then again that's only 16 years from now. Maybe I'll sell them to a younger person who has more years ahead of them- LOL!

I won't be back out to the banks until Monday. I think I'll try a different bank or maybe just ask for 50 loose rolls. The last 50 rolls I got was actually from 3 different banks(20, 20, & 10). I did this mainly to compare the different results from each bank. One of the three did seem to produce a higher ratio of pre- '59 stuff. I'd like to try this again a time or two to see if the results are consistant. Two of the banks are branches of the bank I hold an account at. The third is actually 7 miles away and in another state(only one '54 from those ten, coinstar wrapped, rolls). The one that produced the best results is also the one I found my first silver while roll searching.

My very first silver nickel (of the three that I now have) I found just last month when I first started CRHing. I didn't find it in a roll. I actually found that one while I was rolling up all the change I had in some jars in preparation to go buy rolls of halves! I hadn't even learned about the silver nickels until the night before! Talk about ironic!

Well, after just glancing back over the successes of you all I think I will hitch up my drawers and go get another box from a different bank on Mon! Wish me well. And I'll see ya here later.

I'd love to find a box of 05 Buffys! That is the only date that I check every coin during CRHing, as that design was hit with a lot of errors, oth great and small. Die cracks that look like spears in the buffalo, rotated dies, a doubled die obverse, the three-legged error, interesting filled dies, lots of fun!!

Just went through my first 4 rolls of those '07P nicks. I was pretty slow and meticulous my first roll but was able to pick up the pace a bit once I got more familiar with them.

I just sat aside any that looked real good and then went back over them to pick out the best five from each roll. I was pleased to see that every so often there were some that had a very high luster - an almost proof-like look. Of those, I had to reject a couple due to some pretty bad dings and the like.

I now have a new appreciation for the newer BU stuff. Kind of makes me a bit dissapointed that I didn't hang onto that roll of 1998P BU roll of Kennedy halves I had come accross last month. I took them back to the bank in hopes of finding some more silver .

Looks like I've hit a forum milestone! This will be my 51st post.

GFR3,

Haven't quite had the experience you had yet. But I did get rejected, for the first time, just yesterday from one of my dump banks. When I tried to turn in my $48 in nickels, she asked if I had an account with them. When I replied "no" she said they didn't take coins unless I held an account with them. Then she offered to open an account for me. I politely declined and took my coins to another bank.

The only other teller that ever asked if I had an account with them was when I was buying 20 rolls of nickels from my own bank. This particular teller didn't know me. But once I said I had an account there, it was no problem. That is other than the fact that this teller was obviously 'bothered' by my request.