Nickel Search Updates From Nickelguy88

The buttons are working for me now. Not sure what was going on.

Thanks - buttons working!





Only $45.00 shipping included . Cannot wait for it to arrive.

Great find nickelguy88!

@ Earle42 That is one great looking BU 1942 tombac. I am envious of your purchase of the Capital Plastic holder & contents.
Living in Ottawa, Ontario, we do get the odd U.S.A. coins in circulation, my latest being a 2000 D Sacagawea dollar.

http://goccf.com/t/69470#553244

Here's a comparison of nickelsearcher's numbers at 200,000 vs mine. I've attached a link to his report and a chart of my finds.

Pretty neat to see how close are numbers are for "keepers" or Jefferson's from 1938-1959. He found 2,550 and I am at 2,543

Below are His find rates as of August 2010 vs mine as of November 2023. These are the numbers of nickels searched on average to find a certain nickel

nickelsearcher vs nickelguy88

1930's -- 1,754 vs 1,527

1940's (excluding silver) -- 213 vs 201

War Silver -- 3,390 vs 3,125 (nickelsearcher 59 found vs nickelguy88 with 64 found)

1950's -- 143 vs 148

When I initially started this I expected my silver numbers to be a fair amount lower, however they are comparable with my ratio being slightly better. This was and is very surprising to me.

Liberty V -- 100,000 vs 50,000 (I expect my ratio to be more inline with his as time goes on)

Buffalo -- 6,250 vs 4,545 (again, this also caught me by surprise as I expected my ratio to be less favorable than his)

At his stage in set completion he was missing the 1938-S (I have found 3) and a 1943-D which I am missing. I found a 1950-D in my first box back in 2015, however I am not counting that for this set as I truly believe it to have been a freak chance of luck. The coin obviously came out of someone's collection. I found a 1947-D in that same box long ago that is in immaculate condition with rainbow toning. For that reason I do not consider to have found one. User nickelsearcher had found one at this stage while I have not.

Here's to my march to 250,000. I have 8,000 left to search to bring me to 210,000 nickels and am slightly dreading it as I look over on my bar top and see them, hence why I am writing this snapshot in time vs going through the nickels!

Ok, back to the hunt.

Thanks, I could not believe it myself...but it IS all nickelguys fault!



What is the name of the other one?

Looking forward to the video even more. Never was a cat person until a kitten one day crawled up into my wife's lap while she was on the front porch. Now we have Westley...his sibling who died of a defective heart was Buttercup. I can think of nothing more enjoyable than having two kittens frolicking around the house!

...well...maybe them frolicking while I am roll searching would be even better!

We have three cats. Kitty, the oldest at 15 years old, is the brown tabby. She's usually asleep on the brown couch. Felix is the black and white cat at two years old, and the kitten is Mitzi at maybe 3 months old.

And the hunt continues...

No new additions. I did find a pair of 1955-P in back to back rolls which gave me a chuckle. Also found another 1948-S along with 4 Buffalo nickels. Oldest was a 1924-P that needed a nic a date treatment. One of them, a 1936-P, was an upgrader to the album.

I'll post the video once it is uploaded.

I have another 10,000 nickels on order for next week. I am still aiming to have 250,000 nickels searched by the week of Christmas. Maybe I will finally find that 1939-D or 1943-D by then. Finding both would be nice!