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New Member
United States
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I have gone through 7 boxes of nickels this year and I have yet to find a Buffalo nickel. Is this normal? Last year I only went brought like 5 boxes and I pulled 3 buffs. At least I've got 4 war nicks this year. How common is it to find a buffalo?
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Pillar of the Community
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I haven't found a Buffalo since 2015. And only one War Nickel this year so far. But lots of pre 60's.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1695 Posts |
I think they all migrate to John77's rolls! (I found a few this year, but down from last year also. I also had a 7-box dry run, but it was toward the end of last year). I just picked up 5 boxes, and noticed that one appears to be almost entirely 2017-P nickels. I hope the other boxes are better! It has been over a year since I found a V-nickel. That is how things look from here!
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New Member
United States
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As a data point, I've gone through 2.5 boxes in the last couple weeks and found two buffalos. That's more than I usually find.
My overall average is about one per every 3 boxes. I don't know if that is typical.
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Rest in Peace
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All depends on the area you live in in US, when us old farts die and our idiot relatives dump our collections, or at least our unmounted coins... 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
729 Posts |
Yeah I find a Indian Head one in 20 boxes when I did search nickles.
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Moderator
 United States
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Quote: How common is it to find a buffalo? Not often ... patience is indeed needed while CRH To help with some data ... I'm at 365,600 nickels searched from my local bank ... have found a total of 66 Buffalo nickels. Thats an average on 1 Buffalo every 138.5 bank rolls of $2 in coins ... so be of good cheer ... the key to cRH is keep looking.
Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art
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Moderator
 United States
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Quote: I think they all migrate to John77's rolls! He definitely has a nice herd from CRH. 
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New Member
 United States
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Quote: Not often ... patience is indeed needed while CRH You can say that again!! haha. But it's all worth it when you finally find a keeper! I was just asking because I've only ever hunted 10 boxes of nicks as I almost strictly search pennies because I feel that's my best odds for the oldest coins. So far I've found 3 IHC, oldest was a 1893. I haven't really been keeping track of how much I've sorted other than the $700 in nickels this year. I know I've done at least $1000 in pennies probably closer to $1500. Do you keep track in a spreadsheet or? Sorry For asking so many questions haha just trying to gain more knowledge about CRH. Thanks everyone who replied. Also I'm in Utah and by my guess I only average about 7 wheats in a box of pennies.
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Valued Member
United States
127 Posts |
With time and more quantity more buffaloes will show up. I've been through over 500,000 nickels & have found 139 buffaloes. My buffalo finds are one buffalo every 3637 coins searched or one buffalo every $181.00. My best box had eight buffaloes in it , four with no dates. I have gone as long as six boxes with no buffaloes. Keep on searching, you'll start finding some soon.
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New Member
 United States
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Well picked up 5 more boxes today and finally got my first buff of the year! 
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Moderator
 United States
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Nice work @truehaun!
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz
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Valued Member
United States
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 United States
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Very nice, truehaun! 
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Valued Member
United States
265 Posts |
I just started CRHing this year. My last box of Nickels, I did not find any Buffalos or wartime, but I did find a die clash. The box before that, I actually found 3 Buffalos and 1 wartime. I've done about 6-8 boxes of nickles and can only remember 1 box that I didn't get either of those types of coins.
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