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

Last night's partial box yielded a 1944P.

I did another box of nickels and got 42 pre 1960 including 1 1945 D War Nickel!

The ability to find good nickels seems to be declining. We are getting more and more boxes where we find zero or only one keeper. Last night's box yielded only a 1958p upgrade. And I don't count upgrades as keepers, since they are replacements, not additions. When we started box searching several years ago, it was not uncommon to find 4-6 keepers per box.

Rackster,

I hope this comes out looking nice. My son has it on an Excel spreadsheet. This is for the non Silver nickels.

Group 1 Mintage # Found Find Ratio

1950d 2.6m 1 0.38
1939d 3.5m 5 1.43
1938s 4.1m 2 0.49
1938d 5.4m 5 0.93
1939s 6.6m 6 0.91
Totals 22.2m 19 0.86

Group 2

1951s 7.8m 30 3.85
1955p 8.3m 42 5.06
1949s 9.7m 23 2.37
1950p 9.8m 26 2.65
Totals 35.6m 121 3.40

Group 3

1948s 11.3 30 2.65
1946s 13.6 31 2.28
1942d 13.9 19 1.37
Totals 38.8 80 2.06

As you can see, the find ratio specifies how hard it is to find the coin per millions minted. Group 1 coins are hardest to find, indicating they have been selectively removed from circulation. Group 3 coins are next hardest to find. Group 2 coins are the easiest of the three groups to find. It is especially interesting that Group 1 are so much harder to find that Group 2 as you can see from the find ratio, even tough the mintage differences are not that great.

I forgot to add the totals for all three 116.1
groups:

Grand Totals
Mintage 116.1
# Found 220
Find Ratio 1.89

for those of you have have completed your jefferson folders about how long did it take you/how much nickels did you search through?

Last 4 boxes produced 8 War Nickels and a 1950D which was tossed back by accident. O well.