Nickel Searching?

Watch for the Jefferson Silver War Nickels. They were minted from 1942 to 1945 and all have a large mint mark above the Monticello, even for Philadelphia (P).

Look for the key date Jefferson nickels as well, like the 1950-D and 1939-D.

Since I am not an expert on errors and varieties, I will allow the other members to add what to look out for.

you can find almost anything in nickels, ive seached through over 30 boxes so far and have found a 1883 with cents, a 1950 proof, two major die breaks, as well as over a dozen buffalos, over 60 silver wartimes, and am missing only five of the regular issue jeffersons. With percervierance and a little luck anything can be found, I suggest you take a look at foundinrolls's website for a better idea. He has some amazing stuff posted up there.
-XoG

Keep all canadian nickels you find before 1982

The really main Nickel to watch for is a 1913 Liberty Head. Find one of those and I'll pay you $10 for it. Almost any with a shield on one side and a 5 cents on the other side are on the pricy side so save most of them.
Nickels are a really tuff one unless you have something like the Red Book. And there are many error coins not listed in many of the coin books around. Always look for any coin that appears as if you had to much to drink. I mean it is doubled. Many of the Jefferson nickels that I've found doubled are on the reverse. If you look through books on coins you will see most double die coins are on the front or obverse. That is because very few people even look at the reverse. A difficult error to see is the rotated reverses. Very difficult to turn a coin over exactly to see if the reverse is rotated.

"Keep all canadian nickels you find before 1982"

Why Canadian coins? Do they have more nickel in them or something?

How much are the Canadian nickels worth? I found a 1965 in a roll just a few days ago.

Concerning the original post, I keep everything from the sixties back, even though the sixties aren't worth anything. I've searched a total of 44 rolls of nickels (I haven't been roll searching long, and when I do, I only get a few rolls at a time), and I've found Jefferson nickels as old as 1940. I also found two buffaloes, 1923 and 1936, and one wartime, a 1945 S. Actually, the 1923 and the wartime were both found in the cash register at work, but they were put in there from rolls, so it's still basically roll-searching.

Anyways, good luck finding lots of cool stuff.

Current melt value is about 7.5 cents. I have seen them sell for more on ebay when bought in bulk as bullion.