Onwards to the next well-organized heaps of nickels from coin roll hunting.
First, let's rule out cupronickel nickels from 1938-1942, 1946-1959. I keep all of the ones I find in a pair of plastic peanut jars labeled 1940s and 1950s. For obvious reasons, I keep 35%
War Nickels in a tube.
Over the past three years, whenever I ran across "nice" examples of nickels, I would stash them in paper shotgun tubes. My categories are below. I have since reached some conclusions about stashing rolls. Namely, my nieces and nephews show zero interest in coin collecting. Also, you can buy BU specimens of 1960+ coins in the original mint cello for a pittance. Nobody is going to want XF/AU coins. If some future generation wants to build an album, the 1938-1959 nickels are a solid head start, and they can acquire the rest. I think my inspiration from the Omaha Hoard has fizzled.
Assuming I wanted to cut down this heap of rolls, what would be your strategy to consolidating to a few rolls?
1960-1963 nice
no saving 1964
1965-1967 no mm nice
1968-1969 d,s
1970 d,s
1971-1979 nice
1981,1984-1989 nice
1982-1983 p,d nice (sellers)
1990-1999 p,d full steps MS/AU
2000-2003 FS MS nice
2004-2005 LAP luster, EDS
2006-2022 very nice (luster, MS)
2024-2025 p,d BU
TONED (any year)
I am stashing 10-15 BU rolls of quarter-mil nickels. Those I think should be preserved.