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Valued Member
United States
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I love searching nickels but am getting super upset with trying to finish my folder I only need 7 more and those are 1938d,s 1939d,s 1950d 1951s and 1955. I just wanna here some of your guesses on how many rolls you think it will take to find them. Also would like to know how many it took you. Maybe if you guess the number or are closest you will win a prize. Hopefully I dont get in trouble for that haha. So guess away, wish me luck, and happy hunting'! When I find one I will update this thread.
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New Member
United States
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1938-D will be fairly difficult to find as less than 6 million were made, though stuff like that does happen (I found a 1910-S wheatie, only 6 million made). Hope you're on the West Coast, because finding these in rolls will be a lot easier as it seems you need almost only D's and S's. 1938-S is even more rare with about 4 million.
Your best chances are with the 1951-S, and 1955. Only 2.6 million 1950-D nickels were minted, so that'll be the hardest to get. Getting to the point, my guess would be that it would take A LOT of boxes/roll searching to find -any- of the coins you mentioned. Wish you all the luck, though!
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Valued Member
United States
330 Posts |
 I need those same coins for my folder. Some of those low mintage nickels will be difficult to find, and honestly I would just purchase those coins. |
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Valued Member
United States
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I consider there to be about 10 key dates and you're looking for the lowest mintage 7, so it's not as though you're just getting unlucky. How many rolls have you gone through already? Have you found all the war nickles?
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Valued Member
 United States
433 Posts |
I haven't keep track of rolls searched :'( I really wish I would have though and yeah I found all the War Nickels I've found about 20 total in my searching and I've been searching for about 2ish years on and off. |
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Valued Member
United States
433 Posts |
And Dan I am trying to complete it just by searching worst case I buy them
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I lucked out and found '38D,S and '39S in a single box--around my tenth one if memory serves. 1950-D was around box 15-20. I found a 51-S in change, plus a couple more in boxes but I forget when. 1955 was one of the last ones; around box 25. Never did find the '39D and I'm still missing a few War Nickels. '52-S was the last hole filled in my book, thanks to a dumped collection in a CWR. Haven't had the time as of late to pick up the hobby again. |
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Valued Member
United States
433 Posts |
just got 30 more rolls here goes nothing!!
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Valued Member
United States
433 Posts |
Ive went through 2 boxes of nickels and havent found any hole fillers, silver, or 2009's I did how ever find a datelss Buffalo nickel my first one crhing. But overall bad times with nickels didnt even find any with mintages under 20million :( |
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Valued Member
United States
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Ive searched 23 boxes of nickels so far this year, have found 2 50d, 1 39s, 38 War Nickels, and 3 64 double mms. I also need the elusive 38d and 39d.... |
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