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Pickling revealed my Buffalo to be a 1924... 25 MWR of nickels bought yesterday and searched this morning brought me nine pre-60s including a 1943-S War Nickel, a single 2024-P, and five 2024-Ds. CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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07/15/2026 10:36 am
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Pickling revealed my Buffalo to be a 1924... Excellent!  Quote:25 MWR of nickels bought yesterday and searched this morning brought me nine pre-60s including a 1943-S War Nickel, a single 2024-P, and five 2024-Ds. Nice finds!  |
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Nice finds, John77!  Errers and Varietys.
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So recently, I found part of a collection dump amongst an almost full box of String & Sons MWR. I actually picked up the coins over the course of three separate visits to my main branch: I got one roll the first visit, 25 the next, and 17 the last visit. So I got 43 of the 50 original rolls. I got two pre-60s in the first roll, including a black beauty 1958, so I made sure to go to that branch the following Tuesday morning when they opened - I knew the same teller who had that roll and the rest of the box would be there. Sure enough, the next group of 25 rolls was loaded: 27 more pre-60s, two 1973-S proofs, and five 2024-Ds. There was also another black beauty 1958 Philly amongst the six I pulled. I knew said teller's next scheduled shift would be that Saturday, so I went back and got the remaining 17 rolls when they opened. They produced another 25 pre-60s including a 1942-D, a 1948-S, and eight more 1958 Philly coins, including two more black beauties - sadly, one of them was an ender and got roll damage. There were also two 2024-Ds in this group. In all, I found 54 pre-60s, including 15 1958 Phillys, the 1942-D and 1948-S scarce dates, the two 1973-S proofs, and seven 2024-Ds. Quite the 63 coin haul!     CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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08/03/2026 2:28 pm
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Finally took time to CRH a full box of nickels. Probably my best box, in terms of pre 1960. Typical wear. Since I only keep post 1939's with a mintage under 50M, most of these will be returned to the wild! ADDED: Though these are relatively common years, if anyone needs a hole filler or an upgrade from the 40's and 50's I found, let me know.(1) Unreadable-P Buffalo (1) 1929-P Buffalo (2) 1939-P (3) 1940-P (1) 1941-D (3) 1941-P One has an interesting Phantom of the Opera mask / lamination error (3) 1946-P (2) 1948-P (2) 1949-P (2) 1954-D (1) 1954-P (1) 1956-D (3) 1957-D (1) 1958-D      Edited by snailking1
08/18/2026 2:25 pm
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Nice finds, snailking1!  Errers and Varietys.
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So last Friday I went to one of my branches to get coin. The teller only had 15 of the 25 rolls, I wanted, so she got 10 rolls from another teller. One of the rolls she got was old-style wrapping. When I got home, I opened it and found every coin in it was 1964 or earlier, including 16 pre-60s. I finally got back to that branch today after work to see if said teller had any more old style rolls - and she did! 16 of them, along with one old-style dime roll which was heavy!!! (see the dime thread - https://goccf.com/t/60961&whichpage=449#4522385 for that one!)  The rolls produced 121 pre-60s, including five War Nickels - 1942-P, 1943-S, 1944P, 1945-P (2), and a 1948-S. The rest were all more common dates, except for a couple of 1953-S coins. There were three 1965-dated coins in this group. Every other coin was dated 1964 or before. The oldest coin was a 1939. Note: Only 81 coins can be seen in the picture below - the other 40 coins are in that roll in the front.  CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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08/21/2026 07:06 am
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John77 amazing finds, congrats! Love to see all those pre 1960s. Call me crazy but I still think the 40s and 50s Jeff's will have their day sometime and could be worth a little something. They really are getting harder to find. I do a box a week myself.
I also wanted to add a general comment that 1964s are the kryptonite of nickel hunting. Man how many times I've thought I had an older Jefferson only to turn it over and see the dreaded "1964". I actually keep 1960s nickels too but I make sure the 64 never makes it into any roll I keep lol
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