Monster Pre-1960's Box Of Nickels

Ok, finally finished the entire box. Man that was a lot of stop and go. I thought I had done the better half to start, but I was dead wrong. In total I pulled 209 Pre-1960's. Some of the ones I found were very disproportional to what I would have expected. Also, no silver or buffalos. The 38, 42D, 47S, 49S, 50, 53S, 55, & 58 were hole fillers for me in my 1938-1961 Whitman folder after going through 5 boxes. Here is the breakdown below:

38: P-1 D-0 S-0
39: P-8 D-0 S-0
40: P-9 D-0 S-4
41: P-10 D-3 S-4
42: P-4 D-1
42-45 Silver: 0
46: P-11 D-2 S-3
47: P-6 D-1 S-5
48: P-4 D-2 S-0
49: P-3 D-4 S-1
50: P-2 D-0
51: P-3 D-4 S-0
52: P-5 D-4 S-5
53: P-2 D-5 S-3
54: P-7 D-0 S-5
55: P-2 D-10
56: P-5 D-5
57: P-4 D-9
58: P-1 D-13
59: P-2 D-13

That is a good find. Congrats. You may want tot try and buy up as many other boxes of nickels as that bank will sell you ASAP. That may continue

To answer your question, if you look back several months or more, I found a bag that was loaded with pre-60 nickels to the order of a couple hundred or so - similar to yours.

Yeah, I'm planning to go to that same bank and pick up a fe more boxes this week wehen I have time. Luckily they are not a huge bank, so that may be working in my favor. The other funny part to this find was I had also picked up a box of cents and only found 3 wheats (51D, 57D, and 58D) which is pretty sad. The nickels made up for that though :)

I find about 5 per box so I'm hoarding 100% of them.

Smeyers, I have a good guess on the box. It was probably dumped by another CRHer. You said they are well circulated. Based on your list about, They appear to be the more common 38 to 59 nickels. I used to save every nickel pre-60. Eventually I had a few thousand coins and most had little or no premium. I sorted by condition and rarity. I did a mass dump on the lower value coins.

That said, it's still a nice find, especially if you don't have a bunch of these nickels. Congrats.

OO

I found a similar dump a few years ago, but it was all in a few CWRs, so I didn't have to search the whole box. Just like yours, there was a good date spread, but no coin was worth more than ~10-15 cents.

How many holes did this fill for you? You have a good date spread and '49-S and '50 are both semi-keys.

Wow ... amazing box indeed.

I have never gotten even close to 209 pre-60's Jefferson from a single box ... I average about 26 and my all-time best would be on the order of 100.

Concur with the suspicion that you just searched a collectors 'return to the wild' event.

Best of wishes with completing the remaining Jefferson ... the set can be achieved through rolls with some patience.

David