Excellent video once again! Saw all the cats as well :D
I think you will be smart to take a week off like you suggest after hitting the goal of a 1/4 million. It almost sounds like the fun is gone now for you..and that is really understandable! I remember when I was roll searching halves how I dreaded the trip to and from the bank b/c of the hassle in getting the heavy boxes moved around, and then I also felt bad having the tellers have to heft them for me as well.
That stack of 58-Ds brought back memories of when I was a kid trying to fund my 58-P. It seemed it ALWAYS was a D when I would flip it over. I actually do remember the excitement I had when I finally got a P. I remember running to my grandfather to show it to him!
Just some nickel trivia, I also remember in 1974 that for some reason it was going around that the mintage for Denvers would be around what the 50-D was. So we saved every 74-D we saw...which was not many (he had a laundromat business and a lot of change weekly). Of course the mintage records show that was a false rumor, but I have to wonder if they were late releasing huge numbers of those (maybe an interruption in production?) for some reason b/c those nickels fooled us for awhile into thinking they would be rare.
Urrggg I am still having fun with this, but it is becoming a chore more than anything. It really is amazing that I have went through 210,000 nickels and have not found either of those two coins.
Also, I would like to point out in the chart that I have only found one 1951-S which is very surprising. Thankfully I found one back in 2015 so I have one for each book.
I'm still working on the 10,000 that I picked up on 11/27 last week. I also picked up another 10,000 for this week. So I have $800 of nickels or 16,000 or 8 boxes of unsearched nickels at the moment.
Last week was busy and I've had a nasty cold that I can't seem to shake. I'm finally starting to feel better.
Currently at 214,000 searched. The three boxes that I have laid out look great, but it'll be a few more days until I'm feeling up to it. I didn't even make it to the gym this week.
The first two boxes were decent, with two buffalos a 1935-D and a 1936. Also found one silver. Still a few more 1939 but none with the D mint mark. I'll find it soon enough!
I've been plowing through 10,000 nickels each week since July 29th so a much needed break was probably in order anyway.
Quote: Last week was busy and I've had a nasty cold that I can't seem to shake. I'm finally starting to feel better.
Currently at 214,000 searched. The three boxes that I have laid out look great, but it'll be a few more days until I'm feeling up to it. I didn't even make it to the gym this week.
Sorry this is not nickel related, but how I finally stopped having to deal with colds (many years ago) was my brother introduced me to Cold-Eze cough drops (zinc). Available at places like Walmart. The cough drops used to be marketed as a cure, and I believe it.
Zinc and vitamin C pills go right through a person, but with the cough drop I keep it in my mouth without really sucking on it. The zinc is a continual flow attacking the virus.
So when I feel myself starting a cold, I keep one of these in my mouth for several hours and before bed take a tablespoon of Nyquil. If I catch it when I first feel it coming on, it's gone the next morning using this technique (for me anyway). If I miss getting a Cold-Eze, and killing it off, a cold typically goes straight into bronchitis in me.
I think the packet still claims a 42% reduction in cold symptoms when you take one.
I also used this two prong attack and a vaporizor against Covid. It took longer, but it killed it.
I inherited some more coins today that have been found at my late Grandfather's home who passed in September of 2022. A conversation that I had with him back in July 2022 is a bit of what rekindled my quest for this nickel collection as he had told me he had been given a brand new Jefferson nickel from 1940 (his birth year) by his grandmother when he was a kid. He said he had kept it, but it still remains to be found. My parents found a complete State Quarter collection that he had began in 1999 and then finished with a girlfriend as my grandmother passed in 2003. While it's not really worth anything beyond monetary value it is neat that his thumb print is on each quarter since he pressed them into the folder. A beautiful, mint condition quarter with a big ol' thumbprint! HaHa!I wouldn't trade it for anything!
I still wonder what happened to that 1940 nickel. It has yet to be found.
Since we're all coin collector, and treasure hunters in a sense, I did inherit an arrowhead that had been passed down on my father's side of the family since around the 1830's-1840's that was found plowing a farm field on the original family homestead along the southern shore of Sandusky Bay, located off of the western basin of Lake Erie.
These old items that we all collect here in these forums I'm sure hold a tremendous sentimental value and the stories that come with such items and artifacts are priceless. I hope my son will find these as interesting as I do. We're all almost like mini gatekeepers to history and pass along stories that would otherwise be lost to the vast depth of time.
I gave my niece one of the silver War Nickels that I found along with a Buffalo nickel today as a present. She loved them! Hopefully it'll spur an interest in her later in life.
Anyway, enough with the long ramble! I am feeling much better today and will be back to this nickels this week!
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