Quote:Fifty years ago a 1939
Jefferson nickel was very comonplace, today not so much. My first Whitman Album was the
Jefferson nickel, and in the early 1970s I was able to fill almost all the holes from circulation, including a 1950-D and most of the wartime silver nickels.
I agree.
However it might be noted that at any given time there are probably almost 10% as many 1939 nickels in circulation as there were in 1973. What makes them so much more difficult to find is that there are so many more nickels in circulation now.
These old nickels are forever being pulled out of circulation and then put back in. Most spend more time sitting on someone's desk than actually circulating.