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I ordered the Jefferson nickel Albums and picked up my first two boxes of Nickels to sort. First box in my opinion went extremely well finding the following: 1939P - best coin in the box as it would pass for a 2019, remarkable!! I will post a pic later.... 1940P 1940D 1941P x 2 1941D 1942P 1942D 1943P 1946P 1947P X2 1949D 1952S 1954D X2 1957P 1958P 1959P 1959D 1960P X2 1960D X2 24 specimens of 1960 or earlier in 50 rolls!! I was at 24 with 6 rolls left and thought I had a lock on 25 to average 1 for every other roll. |
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That does seem like a great start. Are you hoping to complete a full date/mint set or just a date set? Or are you just seeing what you get?
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Awesome start!   Errers and Varietys.
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Topic StarterUnited States
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Second box fell much more in line with expectations as the keepers fell to 18 for 1960 and earlier coins, still a good return with these winners found:
1940P
1940D
1941P X3
1942P
1943P
1945P
1946D
1947P
1952D
1954D
1958D
1959D X2
1960D X3
I will spend a good bit of tomorrow sorting out the high quality specimens that I set aside of each year and will sort down to keep the best one of each and enter into the album. After that I will post the representation at that point.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Great finds on the 2nd box! Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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2-4 War Nickels (I can't tell if your 1942 Philly coins are War Nickels or not), a '42-D and a 58-P amongst 4,000 coins is a really nice start in terms of better-date coins. Congrats! Hopefully you're also searching for 2009-dated coins as those are worth quite a premium. CRH Nickeloholic. 1,500,000 nickels searched in seven years! Have found THREE complete Jefferson sets!
Edited by John77
09/16/2023 01:06 am
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Topic StarterUnited States
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So for the first 2 boxes and the 1938-2003 Jefferson Album, I filled 79/179 spots and that was not checking everything after 1960, just pulling out some of the better specimens. Now that I got a lot of the easy ones out of the way, I will check every coin going forward against the needs list. Having a blast!! The other album should be here either today or tomorrow.
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Pillar of the Community
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Looking forward to following this thread. Is you 1939 a type I or Type II?  How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
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Topic StarterUnited States
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It is the Type 2 1939 Variety. Thanks for the question :) My 2004 to Current Album just showed up so I am a kid in a candy store again :)
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I was excited to find out about the different types of REV b/c it gave me more to add to my set  . The slabbing companies do not seem to be aware of using the serif to tell them apart (easiest way IMO) b/c they only show the steps as a way of discerning these, and the steps many times cannot be seen from wear. How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2Edited by Earle42
09/16/2023 12:22 pm
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So after re-sorting 2 boxes, I have filled 105/179 nickels in the 1938 through 2003 album and 40/67 from the 2004 thru 2023 album for a total of 145/246 different nickels represented. Picking up 2 more boxes tomorrow :)
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Fantastic results! |
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Topic StarterUnited States
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How to ruin a Monday.... I took over two boxes of nickels to dump into the counter and boom!!! Machine was down.... so I am holding off a day.... its at my dump bank so I do not want to mess things up going somewhere else and hand rolling....and I don't want to hand roll 4000 nickels either!!!
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Yikes!  I hope you are not put too far behind with this. |
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What a let down! I remember how excited I was to get into my rolls for a week.
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