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I am still copper mining cents. At 4x face it makes sense. Right now, my yield is average of 15 per 100.
Nickels may start to make sense a few years into the Zinckel. If I had to guess, I would bet the first year of the Zinckel will be 2028.
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08/21/2026 6:05 pm
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Keep what you want and roll up and spend the rest.
Errers and Varietys.
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I am stashing 10-15 BU rolls of quarter-mil nickels. can you explain what is q-mil nickels? Thank You |
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Quarter millennium. I got tired of saying semisesquicentennial.
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Not long ago I spent an evening culling from my Nickel hoard.
Nothing very organized, just spread them out single layer and kept the best looking ones by process of elimination, giving the older coins more slack than the newer ones.
I ended up with a coffee jar with about 13 pounds of Nickels, so nearly $60 worth, face value, or about 30 rolls. I may never get around to rolling them up, and my credit union won't take bulk coins that aren't rolled.
So I might croak with that coffee jar still in my possession, but my stash of kept Nickels is, on average, more attractive.
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Here's a possible suggestion. Buy some nickel coin books, Whitman or other. Sort out partial sets for each book into sandwich bags. Hand a book and a bag to kids. You can do this at a local coin club, church, relatives, whatever. Watch their eyes light up.
"I like money. I can't believe you like money, too. We should hang out."
Frito
Member CONECA, Early American Coppers, NETCC
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Roller, that might be the eventual destiny of the 1940s and 1950s jars. But I think the album filler search for 1960-2025 is a journey, not a destination. There is a kid table at our local coin show that offers free used albums; maybe they would appreciate some nickels. I think most of what they offer is LMC albums, though. |
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Anyway, the reckoning begins:  |
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Starting tally, more for my own memory than anything: 3x 1960-1963 nice 1x 1968-1969 d,s 2x 1970 d,s 2x 1971-1979 nice 4x 1981,1984-1989 nice 5x 1982-1983 p,d nice (sellers) 7x 1990-1999 p,d full steps MS/AU 1x 2000-2003 FS MS nice 14x 2004-2005 LAP luster, EDS 11x 2006-2022 very nice (luster, MS) 2x 2024-2025 p,d BU 2x TONED (any year) 4 extra rolls of various years 7 "check later" rolls, probably from prior cleanups So about 65 rolls, not including 3 rolls of Buffalo nickels and worn Buffalo nickels. Edit: in case anyone is wondering, at 200g per roll, that's 13kg or 28.6 pounds of nickels. No wonder my bookshelf was straining! =P Edited by Brandmeister
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Also, you can buy BU specimens of 1960+ coins in the original mint cello for a pittance. This is just the thing. There are very very few BU rolls and the mint sets are nearly gone. The coins are cheap cheap cheap because there is no demand. But this is changing. People are beginning to collect mint sets, BU singles, denominational sets, and even BU rolls. Prices are soaring. Supply is drying up. What people don't realize is most BU rolls contain ugly poorly struck coins, many mint sets have tarnished coins, and the few coins that survive in circulation are typically low grade culls. In four or five years we're likely to see coins like a nice well struck 1971 nickel in XF go right through the roof. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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You've made that case before. I can see considering strike quality for graded registry sets. In practice, do collectors building albums really agonize over strike quality and die state?
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Cut the 2006-2022 rolls from 11x down to 1.5P/1D, plus a mostly full 1P/1D. I will keep the best 2.5 rolls. The remaining pair, I will keep as donor rolls in case someone needs some nice modern nickels. If they don't come to any use, at least I know which ones to toss in the wrapping bucket.
Not sure which ones are next. Maybe the 1970-1979 rolls.
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do collectors building albums really agonize over strike quality and die state? I don't know about others but I sure do...  Quote:
I will keep as donor rolls in case someone needs some nice modern nickels That would be me, I don't find many nice Phillys over here in California. Mind if I send you an email (on my day off/Monday)? We can work something out. |
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Started with: 3x 1960-1963, 1x 1968-1969 d,s, 2x 1970 d,s, 2x 1971-1979
Ended with a half roll of actually nice 1960-1969 and two-thirds a roll of actually nice 1970-1979. I think I have also stashed many very nice individual coins in little packets, which can probably now be merged into the rolls.
The other 5-7 rolls worth of coins were spenders. They've found a new home in the wrap bucket, soon to be deposited at my dump bank.
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That would be me, I don't find many nice Phillys over here in California. Mind if I send you an email (on my day off/Monday)? We can work something out. If by "work something out" you mean stick them in an envelope and send them to California, that sounds like a plan. Send me a PM, and we can figure out the details. |
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