Let's Talk About Jefferson Nickels

There's a simple reason for this. most collectors end their collections at 1959 or 1964 so there's little demand for later coins. They don't collect them because they are believed to be common and because they are mostly poor quality. But even in MS-60 there are far more 1950-D nickels than many of the post-'64 dates. In chBU more later dates emerge as being scarcer than the '50-D. Many of the scarcest Gems are from this later period.

Some collectors will think, so what, but what they don't realize is that even the '39-D exists in XF but the later dates do not. They are gone and weren't saved.

The scarcest regular date of the series in Gem by far is the '82-P. Then it's probably the '83-P & D.

Sure, the coins are cheap but this reflects collector preferences not availability.

Jeffersons were the next logical step--after Lincolns--when I began collecting coins in early 1971 at the age of 11. They were plentiful in change and easily had. As a kid, any money was precious, but I could afford to give up a nickel every now and then for the Whitman folder. You could easily find almost all the dates and mint marks in change, including 1938 and 1939. In fact, I have two boxes of Jefferson tubes that contain dates from the 1930s through 1959.

To date, the only unfilled holes in my Whitman folders are 38-S, 39-D, 39-S, 50-D, 79-D, 2024-P and 2025 P & D. All the coins in these folders (and the tubes) came from what I received in pocket change from when I made a purchase at a store.

I love nickels, I found my 50d in my tip jar many years ago.

i completed the 38-61 from rolls in the early 80s. The newer ones dont interested me so I never followed up with any more, but I do still pull them from circ when I see them, to include the 68-70 s mints. I also have found several of the 41-s large s that I have kept.

the set I have isn't worth much but its mine. the kids can have it when I die!!

Excellent!

They are worthy.