A Box Of Nickels

There were tons and tons of 1964D's... but before that it was sparser than I thought it would be. Out of the 50 rolls I went through I found fewer than 30 nickels dated prior to 1964.

BUT I just did some reorganizing and HOLY COW...

2 or 3 months ago I bought 4 partial albums of Jeffersons from a local dealer for $3 each. I hadn't paid much attention to any of them but thought this would be a good time to go through and see what was in them.

Three of the albums were exactly what I thought they were. I was able to go through them and pull out several that I hadn't found today and place them in my new folders. Which was exciting for me. BUT THEN...

I opened up the 4th album and started looking at it. It's an old Library of Coins album dated 1938-XXXX with the last date in the album being 1960. I started noticing that there were several coins in incorrect holes, so I started poking them out. As I was poking them out I started to notice a trend. They were all either silver or dated prior to 1942. In total I knocked out 15, of those 4 were silver and the rest were mostly 42D's.

This album wasn't complete to begin with so now it was starting to look really holey. But as I was cleaning up the album I noticed that there were several UNC coins. I started to get REALLY excited...

Here are the ones that were in the album which I think will grade 63 or better
38P, 38S, 45P, 46S, 47D, 47S, 48S, 50P, 51S, 52S, 53S, 56P, 57P, 58P, 60P

I haven't ever put together a set of UNC Jeffersons, but after finding these I have a fairly strong suspicion that I know what set I'm going to start working on next!

Nope, not unless they are the common early date Jeffersons that contain silver

1 box = 50 rolls
1 roll = 40 nickels
1 box = 2000 nickels

I didn't have to preorder... Just went up to the cashier and asked for a box.

I'm not sure if I should start a new thread for this... probably will anyway...

Here's some pics of the MS (I think) nickels I mentioned finding

Obverse
Reverse

springcypress

Good deal!

Went out....bought some folders......grabbed some nickels......plugged a bunch of holes......short work !.....nice job putting that together so fast.....now we'll see how long before it's "completed" though !....

I don't know if this counts as cheating, but I went to a dealer today.

He had a book of Jefferson's for sale for $3.00. It had the 1950P in it along with 63 other nickels. So for $3 I bought $3.20 worth of nickels in an album...

I then tore through his nickel box and was able to find the 38DS and 39S for $.25 each, the 39D for $.35, and the 71P for $.15. He didn't have and 50D's in the bargain box though so I picked up a VF one for $8.

Doing the math...
$100 box of nickels bought
-$94 nickels returned
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$6 pulled from circulation
+$15 spent on 5 partial albums
-$10 of nickels still in partials
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$5 from cherrypicking partial albums
$9.25 spent on 6 coins from dealer inventory
$9.75 for the 3 folders
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Total = $31

So in the course of less than 24 hours I put a complete circulated set of Jefferson's together for $31. That's not too shabby I think.