My Nickel Search Stats

Excellent update ... your roll searching is tracking mine and I wish you the very best of luck as you continue to pursue the entire circulation strike set from rolls.

It can be done ... I'm still 2 coins short at 317,600 nickels searched.

Looking forward to your next update.

David

It's been a long time but I've been through another 20,000 nickels for a total of 60,000 searched.
In the past 10 boxes, I've filled four holes (1945P, 1951S, 1939D, 1950D) in my album.

I'm still missing 7 to complete the set:
1938S, 1939S
1942P, 1942S, 1943D, 1944D, 1944S

Most interesting find was a 1950D. Very excited to have that one found.
Other interesting finds:
a 1956 proof and 1963 proof both looking nearly brand new.
a double headed nickel

Here are my stats by category after going through 60,000 coins
(I've stopped counting 2009 nickels):

Type                                           Number    Rate (1 per X nickels)
War Nickels				        21	2857
1938-1939 Nickels			        32	1875
1940-1949 Nickels (excluding  War Nickels)	265	226
1950-1959 Nickels				428	140
 Buffalo nickels (with dates)			5	12000
 Buffalo nickels (without dates)			4	15000
Liberty V Nickels				1	60000

TOTAL of Above				        756	79

Others
Foreign*                         29
U.S. Pennies :(                   4
Alladin's Castle token            1
double headed nickel              1

* Panama(1), Canada(23), Switzerland(1), Bahamas(1), UK(2), spain(1)

It's been many years since I searched Jefferson nickel rolls and looked at change but I do sometimes regret that I let them all go that were less than AU or MS a long time ago.
It was after dumping, selling or giving away my discards that I learned there were other Henning nickels besides the no mint mark 1944. I am sure I let more than a few go.

Those were fun days finding nice nickels in the wild.

60,000 .... very impressive. I enjoy looking over your stats.

Good question. I actually don't know how long it takes to go through a box. I usually go through them while watching something. Or I do a few rolls while waiting for something.
I'd guess about two hours for a box. Fortunately I like doing it otherwise it'd be a huge chore and not worth doing.