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Do you see it? It's hiding...  In the center there... no not the 1957. It's just peeking out, must be shy. Not bright white but it's still silver   I been looking for that one. 1945-P   My CRH silver War Nickel set is only missing 1943-D and 1945-D (I have a full set that I bought thou). |
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Aslan heres my current war nick standings:$2.30 cents in tubes 3 complete sets of dates one is a near complete bu set have stunt nickels standing in for those I have 2 duplicate date bu war nicks and I have a date set I've assembled a 1943 d set with so my totals are $4.10 face value War Nickels 12 being near bu/unc |
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Just to add a little something to the post, in the batch that the Dollars were in there were also around a hundred steel cents and 15-20 silver nickels, another coin I had never held in my hand, with some standing liberty 25 cents, I haven't looked at the 100 or so wheat pennies, silver dimes Walking Liberty halves, it is just a hoard of coins in bags and books, feel like a kid in a candy store, can't make up my mind what to look at next..there is also a Wheat cent without the rim and the date only shows 193 have you ever seen one like this..? |
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Any coin that has a story around it is worth collecting. Every collection should have at least one. To save them as an investment in silver is a bit of a reach in my opinion.
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I never really said much about investment, and if I was looking to invest in silver I'd get generic rounds.
But from the basic standpoint of CRH I'd still rather find a silver nickel than a silver dime, after all you can buy a silver dime for $2.00 at my LCS but a silver nickel is $1.50.
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I would take the nickels over dimes. not that I would trade my 5 rolls for dimes for nickels, because right now I don't have room for 12 rolls of nickels. That might be the only reason people like getting dimes more is the space saving factor. For cost a face value nickel has the highest percentage yield return.
nickels are worth about 20x face value of silver, while dimes only 10x fave value, so if you find them and have the room the nickel is better ROI. Also jsut the fact of the giant mintmark just makes me like them. Not bigger on the reverse, not yet moved to the obverse, lets jsut make the thing hover over the building like an alien spaceship from Sesame Street. This nickel brought ot you by the letter P! I really should not be on forums half asleep, I should just be rolling my halves. Also the nickels are just such a limited run that makes me see them as a bit more special since dimes were ALWAYS silver until 1964. Guess it is why I like the 44 cents too cause they are war-time shell casing. They each hold history within them.
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I was just digging through my foreign silver and wanted to give more supporting evidence that the Silver War Nickel is the better option. I have 14 Mexico Pesos the 10% kind with 0.0514 troy ounces of silver, I wish I had another one because 15 of them gives you .771 troy ounces of silver, basically the same ASW as a dollar's worth of US silver from the same time. It takes 20 Pesos to make 1.028 oz/ASW. Canadian 60% is a little better it only takes $1.70 Canadian to make 1.02 oz/ASW. 1 Dollar .6 2 Quarters .3 2 Dimes .12 The Philippines was at 75% 2 Peso's gives you .96 oz/ASW roughly. Now to US 90%, a Morgan and 3 dimes, $1.30 is .9904 oz/ASW 3 Franklins $1.50 is 1.0851 oz/ASW And finally 35% War Nickels... Drum Roll Please... 18 nickels... 90 CENTS! gives 1.0134 oz/ASW Under a BUCK for an ounce Now that WAS the Good Old Days! From a face value stand point looking at the first half of the 20th century $0.90 is a lot better than $1.30 I hope my numbers are at least close to accurate... I was using your friend and mine the Krause manual. |
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I know each nickel is 0.0562638065 troy ounces of silver (35% of 5 grams = 1.75 grams) merc or roosie silver dimes are 0.0723391798 troy ounces of silver (90% of 2.5 grams = 2.25 grams) 0.0723391798 - dime 0.0562638065 - nickel the dime may give .016 more troy ounces of silver, but it sure aint double the amount of a War Nickel! |
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 I'm not crying, I'm just drooling out my EYES! |
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I've just recently arrived here but I just wanted to say I've enjoyed seeing the nickels in this thread. Really puts things in perspective for me.....I've got a long row to hoe it seems.
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 Nickels_Rule. IF your love Nickels you'll become fast friends with ASLAN TVorlon. He is one of my favorite posters on this forum, and his Cat! Edited by Mr Click
07/07/2014 10:15 am
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I have not found a single War Nickel in maybe 4 boxes yet my brother once found 10 in one box... I think there is something wrong with that  |
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 Mr Click  You meant the NIP FIEND?  SHHHhhhhhhhh........  |
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