Interesting Nickel Roll Observation

also about the not looking for the coins or even at the coins when rolling, thus more keepers will be slipped in. Before I collected coins I would intentionally slip in the canadians because people and vending machines don't like to take them around my area. Since this is the case I would put them on the side and put them all into one roll so if they put a magnet to them I would only be returned one roll rather then a bunch of rolls. People realize they are canadian but are trying to get rid of them. Putting the in a roll is the easiest way to disguise them. Thats my theory on them

I haven't really noticed this. I'm a statistics guy and I've been trying to find some sort of trend in anything and have yet to be able to do so. I think there is a slight correlation between customer wrapped rolls and bank wrapped rolls with the former being slightly more lucrative, but even there its a minor difference. I think older people are more likely to wrap their coins themselves and are also more likely to have older coins still sitting around.

It's a crapshoot though, I've definitely been through a statistically significant amount of rolls/boxes and I still have a higher occurance of V nickels than buffalos. I know I'm the only one on these boards with those numbers. Why? Who knows.

I have had the same observation, and considered making the same post. I'm 3 hours from Ontario; sometimes I get boxes where there is one Canadian nickel in each roll, and sometimes I get 0 in an entire box. When I don't get any Canadian at all, the odds of getting a War Nickel are almost zero. I should add that we aren't just talking about Canadian coins - I could would make the original claim saying 'foreign coins' instead of just 'Canadian coins'.

eagle79:

Keep the faith. A couple of months ago - I found a Russian 20 Kopec coin, (minted in 1909), in a nickel roll!

It was from a customer wrapped roll. I find they are the best, because the coin counters that Brinks , and String $ Son use - do not screen the foreign coins out in the rolling process!