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I also picked up this 1944-S Jefferson nickel from J. T. Stanton (yes, that one.) PCGS MS65 / Full Steps. I love the toning. I need to take better pictures of it.

This is a scarce coin.

"Bah," you say, "it's a Jefferson War Nickel." Yawn. There were millions of these things minted, and you can find BU wartime nickels all day long...

Except when you can't. PCGS, out of those millions, has only certified 302 1944-S Full Steps Jefferson nickels..in ANY grade, from AU to MS68 (the finest and only known example.) And by the standards of FS coins, this is only a minor "semi-key."

Much like some dates in the Mercury series are difficult in FSB, some Jeffersons are difficult in FS. The prices rise accordingly, especially beyond MS65. This creates some true condition rarities that don't get much attention: out of the hundreds of millions of 1964-D nickels made, PCGS has only certified 69 (!) Full Step examples. For 1949, another key FS date, PCGS only has 29 certified examples in any grade.

A few of the known FS coins came from the Omaha Bank Hoard, a cache of hundreds of BU rolls of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and half dollars from the 40s through the 60s. I have several high grade quarters from the same hoard, and a 64FBL Franklin. Some of the hoard coins, especially the end rollers, acquired some amazing toning. The ones in the very middle of the rolls tended to have lots of "roll rub" and grade out 63-64. Most of the coins never got above 66 in any series but the Roosevelt dimes.

The hoard was both a blessing and a curse for "early modern" collectors: it made some nearly-impossible condition rarities only nearly-improbable to somewhat inconvenient (such as the 1944-S, 1949 and 1955-D) but at the same time, the large number of BU coins available did hurt the market for non-Gem coins from the same era.

Thanks!
All of the albums were complete date sets with the key dates except the 1916-d Mercury dime.

Nice examples of 1921's In both the Walking Liberty and Mercury Sets

The 1893-s Morgan is off to TPG today so time will tell on it.

Omaha, Heck yeah! LOVE that Omaha Bank Hoard nickel

How did I do on this purchase? Please criticize if necessary. I paid $13 dollars for it.

I haven't posted anything in this thread for a while but today I purchased a coin that I had to share. It's got a couple of little marks here and there on the obverse, nothing too distracting. But the color absolutely floored me when I saw it. I've been working on XF/AU Barber quarter and Barber half sets for a while so I don't usually pay much attention to the MS Barbers I come across. Today was different. This one got my attention and it was love at first site After that, I really had no chance, I was a goner. The money just floated out of my wallet.

Tbone, that toning is so eye catching! Love it.

These for 15xface this week at my neighborhood LCS:

1912 & 2x1912-D dimes
2x1913, 1895-S & 1905-S quarters
1878 and a slightly mangled 1894-O half

If I'm going to buy junk silver this is the best kind to get.

TNA show (sorry for the quality of the photo)... melt is about $60, APMEX sells these in BU for $95 and I paid $75.




But wait, there's more - it's in a PCGS Promotional slab - I've never seen one with gold in it before...