Todays Finds. $10.00 In Nickels

Yes 100%!

Frog, I do understand your plight, and I think you mean well, but you must let things run their course, there is no other measure for this. Let folks save what they want. It may change over time, and it may not. To some extent, you have to let people be. I know you went through similar tactics in your early searching and collecting, we all do.

As usual, -makecents- makes sense. A coin collection is both embodied knowledge and the value of the physical collection itself. Especially in the early stages of the hobby, the advancement of knowledge is much more important than the coins themselves. There is also much to be said about enjoying the process.

Heck, I'm almost 60 years into this. You ought to see some of the coins I saved. Collect what you want. Can't get much better than face value, unless you find them.

Don't mean to be negative. Just tryinig to encourage young collectors to use their time and energy doing something more productive, and with more learning potential, than searching endless rolls of common coins. That's my conclusion looking back over a long life of collecting.

Shout me down if you like.

I search $20 of nickels every week, and I find a 2006-2020 WDDR pretty much every week. All it takes is a cheap plastic clip-on magnifier and a flashlight. Identifying them requires learning how to use the DDR catalogs. It teaches you how to differentiate MD vs. DDD vs. real doubling. I've learned a lot about mint marks, obverse and reverse design changes, and all sorts of other useful information.

TL;DR: you can learn a lot about coins and varieties via searching rolls of common coins, essentially for free. Just my 2¢.

Great finds on the 1938 and 1938-S!

Well said.