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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Top left corner face side down nickel interests me..id venture to say a older date jefferson the rest seem newer from color and wear
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Valued Member
 United Kingdom
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Well they arrived with the postman this morning. Interesting finds were 4 x State Quarters, this 1949 nickel  And the one that everyone spotted   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'd say you did fairly well. The V nickel is common, but in much better condition than it appeared from the photo; I'd say about VF. What mintmark does the '49 nickel have? You can find it on the reverse to the right of the building near the rim. If it's blank or a D, it's worth about 10 cents. The 49-S is one of the harder coins in the series to find, and is worth a few cents more. Considering these were bought as foreign coins, I'd say you did just fine. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I find it very exciting to think that you can still find coins 100 years old or more in your pocket change.
As a general rule you can't. That V nickel was probably "seeded" into the pile of pocket change to get the bid up. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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What was the total face value? State Quarters are common here, about 50% of circulation. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6130 Posts |
Piggybacking off of what Conder said... The oldest coins that can reliably be found in the US are 1938 Jefferson nickels and wheat pennies from the early 1940s or late 1930s. I would say that a large percentage of Americans have a few wheat pennies and other old coins in a small "collection" and those coins are inadvertently put into coin counting machines from time to time, thus showing back up in circulation for a short period. V nickels aren't unheard of in circulation, but they are different enough that 99% of Americans would snatch it right out of their pocket change. Barring people who intentionally spend them, I would say that no V nickel has seen an actual transaction since the 1940s or 50s. The seller probably bought that coin for $2 and put it in there in the hopes that the final bid would be at least $3 higher than a bid on common pocket change. The 1949 was probably not included deliberately. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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V nickels do show up, but they are usually in a state where they are barely recognizable. Either that, or freshly snatched from Grandpa's coin collection.
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Valued Member
United States
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I deleted this post last night because I wasn't sure about the face value of the coins in that pile, but I'll repost it now seeing the last few posts. Personally, the way I react to seeing anything of these on ebay especially, is that the V nickel was cheaply bought and deliberately inserted into the center of the pile. That's going to immediately grab people's eyes and compel them to bid, while the seller makes a profit selling nothing else but face value coins. Especially since these coins aren't even rolled, do you really think the seller didn't search the pile of coins him/herself? |
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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Hmm interesting. To be honest I bid on the coins without even noticing the nickel (hence my original question), so if it was a ploy by the seller it was lost on me!
A bit of a gamble and I may have overpaid a bit but I think that nickel is great and I got a few quarters towards a set of 'states'.
The rest has gone into my son's florida holiday spending money.
Thanks again for the advice.
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Pillar of the Community
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for some reason I have 6 sets of State Quarters including the territories. not even sure if it is a P&D set int he entire lot, but about to thin it out and cull the herd. the V is good. a bit better than my 1900, but what is in her ear? |
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