A Box Of Nickels

Got myself a box today. I'm off from work Monday and Tuesday so its a long weekend for me. I'll have plenty of time to go through it. Will post my results when I'm done.

I don't see why not... 82 and 83 are good years for coins that are in better shape. I know in the box that I just went through I only found 1 82P and 1 83P. It was probably just an anomaly but I think it's strange that I found more 43S than I did of either of them.

Also Elimist if you want I have a partial set that you're welcome to have it's got
39P, 40PD, 41PDS, 42PD, 46PDS, 47PDS, 48PDS, 49PDS, 51PD, 52PDS, 53PDS, 54PD, 55D, 56PD, 57PD, 58PD, 59PD, 60PD, 61PD
That's $2.15 face... you can have it at that + shipping if you want.

went through box #2 today, and it turned out pretty nice...here was my take:

- about 15+ holes filled (39D, the rest were 40's and 50's)
- 1x 45P, 3x 43S (one of which I think is BU/MS, almost Full Steps! that totally surprised me...beautiful white with nice toning around the rim...I'll post a pic later)
- date-less buffalo
- nickel from costa rica
- a nickel-sized coin from somewhere in the middle-east (i think...it looks like arabic, not sure)

Just went through another box of nickels found 17 pre 60's. 1 of them was an EF 40S... Don't know how that ended up in there.

I thought it would be fun to document the whole thing, so I made a post about it with images on my personal site.

It's a bunch easier for me to post images there than it is here. Otherwise I would have just put it here.

I think I want to try this. Do the banks give you a hard time when you ask for $100 in nickels? Or is this something banks see all the time?

dude, thats awesome. I've gone though about 200 dollars in nickels. still have about 15 holes all 40's and 50's

i have gone through at least 35 boxes of nickels since the start of my roll hunt and am left with 6 holes left, 38s,38d,39d,43d,44d,and of course the accursed 1950d. Along the way ive also found over a dozen buffalos,major die breaks, misaligned dies, and clipped planchets. The most interesting things ive seen are a 1883 with cents that grades at least ef and a 1950 proof. I used to dump all of my coins at one bank until that bank told me that I couldnt dump halves there anymore since I was dumping them their once a week. I then decieded to get even with them by saving up 20,000 nickels and dumping them in the machine instead of the halves. I ended up getting banned from dumping anything over $300 there but at least I got even with the bank since it took over 30 minutes to count all the coins. I filled 11 coinbags and jammed the machine 3 times, and caused a massive line. Needless to say I had my revenge.