Alright... so Tuesday afternoon, I ran some errands and went to a mall a few miles south of me, specifically to purchase some cans of a drink which was on sale, but out of stock at the store nearest to me... Thankfully, I was able to buy 12 cans there... I then headed to one of my usual bank branches to get some coins. I waited few minutes in line and was helped by a friendly new teller... I intended on just buying $50 from her, but I noticed that some of the CWR she was handing me were marked with dates in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s... seeing this, I increased that total to $60 which was all she appeared to have.
Anyways, I get the rolls to my car and start inspecting them. A total of 11 of the rolls were marked with dates ranging from 1940 to 1964... I ended up going back there the next day and purchased two more marked rolls from her (along with $21 in small dollar coins), bringing the total to 13. The other 19 CWR were not from said hoard and only turned up one pre-1960 coin.
I was most excited by the 2nd two rolls, hoping there might be some semi-key 1949-S, 1950, and 1951-S coins, and, of course, a 1950-D...
Well, I found all of the semi-key coins, including 5 1949-Ss (one was severely damaged), a single 1950, and 13 1951-Ss including a couple in AU!
I next went to the 1940-D and 1940-S roll. As I opened it, I noticed some 1939 dated coins in there as well - six of them total. Well, one of them happened to have an "S" on it!
The rolls marked 1956-D and 1958-D were solid date rolls, as wass the roll marked "1960-D P 1958" - it was another full roll of 1958-Ds. The roll of 1955-Ds actually contained 39 of that date and a lone 1958-P...
Here are the 20 best coins out of the batch:
Here are the hoard totals by date:
1939: 5,
1939-S:1, 1940-D:16, 1940-S: 18, 1949-D: 15,
1949-S: 5, 1950: 1, 1951: 12, 1951-D: 14,
1951-S: 13 , 1952: 20, 1955-D: 39, 1958: 1, 1958-D: 80
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I purchased 1,000 CWR from that branch from a different teller on Wednesday (while I waited for the teller I had the previous day) and they were good as well, producing 1918 and 1920
Buffalo nickels amongst 7 pre-60s, along with three 2009-Ds.
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So yesterday I did a bunch of dumping of coin... I went north of my normal buying area, but, while I dumped, I also hit a couple of branches of my main bank... I got $50 in CWR from one, and intended on getting $50 from another... the teller was almost out of nickels, so he went to get a box from the back... upon returning, he asked me if I wanted the whole box. Since I had handed him a $100 bill, I said "sure, why not"...
The group of CWR produced 11 pre-60s and a single 2009-D.
The box looked like a real dud early on, producing only 1 pre-60 amongst the first 10 rolls... the 2nd group of 10 only produced two.. so I had 3 pre-60s amongst the first 800 coins. Bleh! I then found what was obviously an impaired proof. Sadly, it was a 1958-dated coin. Lots of intentional scratches on the coin on both sides.
The third row was somewhat more productive overall, producing a more normal 4 pre-60s. So I was up to 7 now... the fourth row was seemingly going to be bad too...nothing in the first five rolls. But the 6th roll had a 1939 coin... the next roll also had a 1939-dated coin which had a couple of indentations on it. I flipped it over, and could not believe my eyes...
Yes, for the first time in my life, I had found a 1939 doubled MONTICELLO and FIVE CENTS nickel!
Yes, it has a little damage, unfortunately, but it isn't going anywhere. Now if I had only purchased $50 as intended, I would've only received nickels from the top three rows of the box, missing out on this coin... the moral of the story: when offered a full box, NEVER turn it down lol.
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Posted 04/15/2023 07:58 am
ready!
very much; I pop out only 2 on average per box, some have none at all 
I wonder if this will become a modern sleeper coin which will pick up in value sometime in the future especially for high grades...
