Nickel Search Updates From Nickelguy88

Awesome finds!

Nice results!

jbuck, looks like someone found a sibling to your coin

Love coming back to see your progress. A good thing this shows to newbies is the fun they can still have tring to make a set. Also another good thing it shows to newbies is that, unlike ebay and clickbait youtube videos seem to imply, searching for coins in circulation is not going to pay off the mortgage!

I also like Felix!

BTW...the feet and miles are an excellent edition!


But that got me thinking...which can be dangerous...

Especially for a former math teacher who used to spend all day long with high school kids and numbers and misses that

I did some math (for fun) and determined that mathematically the number of nickels per foot is 14.37 (each being .835"), and therefore, as mentioned in a prior post of mine, a cubic foot would have: 14.37^3= 2967 nickels.

But...you cannot have 14.37 nickels per foot in the real world...well...without a hacksaw.

So on a 12" ruler was can line up 14 nickels being a bit shy of the ruler's end. So when does the "bit shy" add up to another nickel diameter? After 3 feet, and then the total "bit shy" becomes a negligible .009".

So it would be more real-world accurate to use cubic yards of nickels since a nickel diameter is more compatible to yards instead of feet.

So now we would have 14 nickels X 3 feet plus the one extra. That makes a real-world 43 nickels per yard.

Thickness is something different. Nickels are .77" thick. Using the same logic as above, we end up with 47 nickels in a stack 3" tall. Another nickel would fit in each stack at 6 feet, another at 9 feet, and so on for more multiples of 3.

So 1 cubic yard of nickels is 47 nickels tall X 43 nickels width X 43 nickels long = 86,903 actual nickels per cubic yard.

Congratulations! You have searched over 2 cubic yards of nickels (.18 remainder...well..without corrections).

It was a lot of fun for me b/c my addiction to research carries me to an extreme when having fun like this!

One night when I could not sleep, my groggy mind wanted to get a physical "feel" for the rarity of 1916-D Mercury dimes. Only 246,000 were minted. From the dimensions I figured it would only take only four boxes 1 foot on each side to hold all of them. Each box holding 65,314 dimes in neat stacks with little space left over.

Yes, you could say in actuality ithey would not fill 4 full boxes b/c the small excess space in the rows and columns would not perfectly fit to the inside dimensions (very close fit though), so you could drop some more of them inside the small spaces, but the 4 cubes give a good feel for what I was after.

When I saw your nickel count up so high it reminded me of my past insomnia exercise

While doing the math for the nickels, I fell into my old BASIC computer programming mindset and could easily write the program to calculate accurately, but you would need to download a Commodore 64 emulator to run it!

I remember where I was when I heard about those dimes being released. A lot of them were released at Cedar Point in Sandusky. The day that they figured they were released my school had a field trip there, but I was too sick to go!


I don't see how, after going through 200k, it would be easy to stop LOL!

Awesome finds nickelguy88!