The Goal: 25,000 Rolls Of Nickels (All Searchers Welcome!)

i know what bank the buffaloes came from on Friday, they should have 4 boxes of pennies tomorrow and I'm differently going to ask if they have anymore nickels I can have.

Hello, Have any of you seen a Double die or Double strike on both obverse and reverse on the same coin?
I found a Very noce jefferson with doubling on both sides..
I'm not sure if my camara will get that cose for pics

@crazyforATB: What I had heard was...

Around 1960 the price of silver was fixed by congress, and then that fixed price was lifted in an attempt to increase the profit for those mining silver. Combined with the US government selling more silver, this backfired, driving the prices of silver higher and higher, causing a concern that people would be able to trade in silver certificates and silver coins in for more than their face value. People began to hoard silver coins, causing a coin shortage.

It was acknowledged that more coins would be needed to combat the shortage, but the alloy used would need to be changed to prevent people from hoarding them, and this would take time to implement and distribute... but the nickel already was made of an alloy with zero silver, and people were not hoarding them.

Bring us to 1964, we discontinue silver dimes and quarters, cut down the silver in halves to 40%, and crank out nickels like there is no tomorrow for the history in US coins (and for all we know this is true).

1964 comes and goes with merchants and the public making a ton of change with nickels and pennies, and in 1965 we crank out a ton of new allow dimes and quarters to try and play catch up and replace those 1964 and older coins disappearing from circulation to hoarders. We also dropped the number of halves we made in 1964 because they still had silver, and we drop the number of nickels we made in 1965 drastically to balance out all of the nickels we flooded out in 1964.

Of course, if this is wrong and just an urban legend, someone will correct me.

No yvairguy, you are fine. Anything before 1960 was minted in lower numbers. Nothing from the 60's or 70's is worth anything more than 5 cents, unless it is a variety of course! Sometimes I search rolls that have nothing older than 1980, sometimes they have nothing newer than 1970. It's all just the luck of the draw.

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2002 proof last night

bishftl, what are the years on the toned nickels? I really like the way they look.

Great score on the Proof rew.