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Never.  I bought the one in my album. |
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Never a one when I was looking
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I have collected nickels and searched occasional bags from banks since the early 1960's and can honestly say I NEVER found a 50-D in circulation.
On the other hand, I pretty much found every other date and variety along with several Henning counterfeits in bank bags.
I have bought bags of "common" Jeffersons and Buffalos from dealer stocks over the years and have found everything from rolls of 50-D's, to multiple single 3 legged Buffalos and even one 18/17-D overdate.
It's a strange business.
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I have a 50, but no 50-D... booo....
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I found a '50-D in nice high end VF in 1964 and sold it for the princely sum of $25 to a coin dealer who had a waiting customer. I went through rolls rolls of nickels until I switched to quaqrters in 1977. This is a tough coin to find in circulation because most of the mintage was set aside by dealers and collectors.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Except for the '38-S, '39-D, 58-P, and '50-D I could have put together a roll set from what I found from '58 to '77. One of the most surprising things about this set would be the quality of the '42-D's I found. Most of the coins often came nice but the '42-D was always heavily worn. I believe a nice F '42-D is much scarcer than an unc '50-D. For that matter I think a nice VF or better '71 is much scarcer than a '50-D.
In Unc a lot of the later nickels are tougher than the '50-D.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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This is a tough coin to find in circulation because most of the mintage was set aside by dealers and collectors. Why is that? |
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I should have mention that I have lots of these 1950d except the the d part is all wore off.
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The 50-d was an instant "rarity" because they were released very late in the year. Just like the 1931-S cent, most were saved in high grade and in quantity as soon as they were seen. It was speculation more than anything. A circulated 50-D is much scarcer than an "unc" one. Rolls commanded a high price during the roll craze of the 1960's. It was not unusual for BU rolls to trade hands in the 1000$ range.
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Interesting. Thanks for the background there. Looks like mintage numbers are pretty low as well.
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Looks like mintage numbers are pretty low as well. The 1950-D Jefferson is the key date for the series ... it's mintage of 2.6 million is the lowest of the entire 172 coin circulation strike set. As correctly mentioned above ... hoarding of this issue was prevalent in the day and a significant number of the original mintage never reached commerce and circulation. I wish I had a good estimate of the hoarding rate ... it would solve a major dilemma in my 'circulation obsolescence' data. To the original question ... the link posted above discusses my recent 2nd 1950-D Jefferson roll find in 7 years. David Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art |
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About 7 of them. That is due to me being around in 1950. I started several sets in Albums way, way back and have been adding to those for a long time. Haven't found any since but then no longer looking for them either.
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Posted 02/25/2015 10:30 am
