Nickel Search Updates From Nickelguy88

John77 I will try the vinegar on those buffalos. I've tried nic o date on a few and while it did provide the date it sure makes the coin look ugly.

I'll get through some more boxes tonight when I get home from the office.

Outstanding!

Went through another box this afternoon before I made dinner for the family while the kid was taking a nap. 2 silvers, a 1943 P and a 1945 P, and 37 nickels from 1938-1959.

I used nic o date on those two dateless Buffalo nickels and they were a 1915 and a 1920.

Gonna try to go through the remaining two boxes tonight.

This was a very enjoyable hunt! 166 total nickels found from 1938-1959 and And AND 5 Buffalo nickels! Including two that I needed, a 1915 and a 1928-S, for my book and a 1920 upgrade! I found two foreign coins which were a 1968 Eire Harp & Hound from Ireland and a 1939 Switzerland 20 Rappen. The photos will be in my video that I'll post a link to here once it is done editing.

Below are the finds from this hunt.

1938 - 1
1939 - 10
1940 - 8
1940 S - 2
1941 - 9
1941 D - 6
1941 S - 3
1942 - 1
1943 P Silver - 1
1943 S Silver - 1
1945 P Silver - 1
1946 - 8
1946 D - 3
1947 - 7
1947 D - 2
1948 - 5
1949 - 3
1949 D - 4
1949 S - 1
1951 - 6
1951 D - 2
1952 - 10
1952 D - 2
1952 S - 2
1953 - 1
1953 D - 2
1954 - 1
1954 D - 7
1954 S - 2
1955 D - 4
1956 - 1
1956 D - 3
1957 - 2
1957 D - 11
1958 - 4
1958 - 14
1959 - 5
1959 D - 11
Buffalo - 5
Canadian - 13
Foreign - 2


Below are the totals so far for 70,000

Out of the 117 Canadian nickels that I have found I have yet to find one older than 1980. Is there a reason for this?

Great find nickelguy88!

Another hunt is in the books bringing the total nickels searched to 80,000 nickels. I did not find anything too special, I did find a 1950, but not the 50 D. Had 3 Buffalo nickels out of a box. I did get three coins that were upgrades including a 1941, a 1956, and a 1957. Below are the finds from this hunt and the chart displaying everything found so far. I have another 10,000 nickels on order for next week.

I did the nic-o-date treatment to the three Buffalo nickels that I found. The one was so far gone, as I figured, produced no results. Coins in that condition I will no longer nic-o-date. There other two were a 1915 (which I have) and a 1923 which I needed.

While I was visiting my parents today my mom gave me a 1919 Buffalo nickel that she found in change when she was a little girl. She has kept it her entire life and passed it on to me. I have included a picture below. Pretty neat to see what these looked like in circulation from the early 1970's. It's a snapshot frozen in time. Definitely a coin that I will treasure for the rest of my life.