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

Excellent!

Nice finds .

A V nickel is a fantastic find! I found a 1943 P silver nickel today in a customer wrapped roll.

Bought a bunch of Nickel rolls this week from various banks... Highlights included a 1900 V nickel, a BU 2009-P, and 5 War Nickels!

Managed to search 21,960 nickels this past week... here are the highlights:
193 pre-60s including 2 Buffalo (1937, dateless - it's in vinegar now), 1942-D, 1943-P, 1945-S, 1950, 1951-S, 1958 (yes, only 2 War Nickels, incredibly)...
5 S-mint proofs including: 1969-S (2), 1989-S, 1994-S, 2001-S
1 1990-D NO FS variety
1 2009-P, 29 2009-Ds

I searched for a $2 Nickels CWR but I founds a 1958D Old Jefferson nickels.
HAPPY HUNTING!

So this past Friday morning I hit a few banks as I usually do towards the end of the week... since I was busy watching The Masters golf tournament though (and working Friday night), I didn't get to opening them until Saturday night. One of the customer wrapped rolls gave me some real hope when out popped this coin:

Yes, a shiny, new 1939 Jefferson nickel...

Needless to say, the hope was that when I flipped the coin over there would be a mintmark... though I've found BU 1939 Phillys, an AU 1939-D, and high end XF 1939-S coins, I never have found a BU of either of the keys... So I actually said a little prayer... and when I flipped it over....


Lo and behold, there was an "S"!

Other than my AU 1928-S Buffalo from a few years ago, and the aforementioned AU 1939-D Jefferson, this BU 1939-S Jefferson ranks as my best nickel find!

Thanks, jbuck! Also, upon closer inspection, that 1939-S is the harder to find Reverse of 1940 so it's worth a good bit more than I first thought!

So I got some more rolls yesterday from four different banks and the group of 25 CWR from one bank looked like it had been searched through... I had only pulled a 2009-D Jefferson and no pre-60s through 17 rolls...

Roll 18 though had a little surprise in store.


Not quite an Uncirculated 1939, but a nice, high end XF... so I flipped it over, and...


Would you believe another 1939-S? Pretty bizarre. So yes, two of those in less than a week! I'm guessing this one got missed thanks to it looking almost new. Incidentally, there was only one more pre-60 in that entire 25 roll batch (a 1957-D)... As I always like to say, "quality over quantity"!