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

Great finds John77!

Awesome finds! The number of nickels you go through is truly astounding. I only average 200/week!

My favorite is that 1958 Philly in the center, with the massive Die Deterioration. Those letters look epic compared to the coins on either side, both obverse and reverse.

Brandmeister, I've got quite a few similar-looking '58 Philly nickels... one of these days I'll gather them all together and post them here. The craziest thing is I got all three of those '58 Phillies out of one batch of 1,000 coins!





Well, AllSeasons, I actually buy 1/2 box of nickels pretty much every time I go in there (4-5x a week), so the manager there usually orders a few extra boxes of nickels every week to take my tendencies into account...

And that suspicion of yours about said bank teller is definitely true - she's become one of my best friends these past five months. Her boyfriend is a great person too. I've spent a good amount of time with both of them lately outside of the bank.

Nice set of nickels.

Proofs typically have a much better strike than circulation coins (they will typically have full steps which is almost impossible to get on 60s nickels)

Well, that makes me wonder about some of the 1960s nickels that I have tucked away over my months of CRH. Some of them had a more prominent Monticello building and a nice bust with at least partial steps. Those might bear some re-examination when things have settled down in the fall.

After a few weeks of visiting every local Wells Fargo and getting either CWR or new 2022 Ps in MWR, I had all but given up on good hunts after our big move. Today I drove a little farther out and got another mix of CWR and uncirc 2022 P MWR, but decided to suck it up as this teller gave me 3 MWR of Westward Journey mint rolls (2005 P and D ocean in view, 2004 P peace medal). The end coins as expected are absolutely gorgeous gold toned nickels which we will sell off. Interestingly, one of the rolls today that I thought was custom wrapped was actually an old, untouched fed roll of 2005 P bisons, all gold toned, with no Ring of Death on any of them. Tubed them up.

Onto the CWR - of the 35 rolls I collected, 27 were bona fide CWR and boy did they not disappoint. I suspect some were from a collection dump as one roll yielded a 39 P, a 39 D (the second we have found this summer!), 41 P, 41 D, 57 P and 57 D, plus a beautiful 64 P and 68 S. Another CWR produced a dateless Buffalo and a nicely detailed 44 P. Overall well over 30 finds in 27 CWR, some of them post 1960 upgrades but finding a 39 D was something else. I'll roll up the discards tonight, dump tomorrow and revisit that branch for whatever CWR they have left.