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Valued Member
United States
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Well coppernickeldaddy's Nickel hunting thread got me started around the first of the year...I'm a little over 5 months and 37 boxes into my hunt...a mere 1850 rolls. I've been tracking MY results on an excel spreadsheet by date/MM and here it is for your evaluation. Only 3 dates I haven't found: 1938D, 1945S and 1955. My stats are pretty close to Nickelsearchers's.  A few curious items: 1. I've found a freakish number of 1943-D's = 4 (Sorry Nickelsearcher) 2. Both of the proofs were found in a single box, about 10 rolls apart. 3. A few weeks ago, I pulled a 1939 DDR and 1950-D within about a box. Enjoy. Comments are encouraged! |
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 United States
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It makes me very happy to see another brother-in-arms reporting nickel search results in a methodical way. Indeed .... CND started the madness here at the CCF ..... and so we go forward trying to convince the community that roll searching nickels brings great joy! Comments on your report DylansDad ..... First .... you are killing me with envy on your 1943-D finds. I need that one ..... I'm at 190,800 coins searched .... and you have 4 of them.  Your overall Find Rate of 1.254% compares well with my recent 190,000 coin update find rate of 1.281%. The distribution of your 'finds' looks similar to mine ..... so I say we are tracking quite well together. The three coins you lack are difficult but not hard to find ..... you will soon come across your needed 38-D, 45-S and 55-P. I suspect you will finish before me ...... and I offer my best wishes to your continued roll-searching success. David |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I think its crazy you have not found a 1955. I also always thought that 1949 S nickels were hard to find and undervalued. I'd like to see pictures of your 39 DDR. Good work! |
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 United States
476 Posts |
Take a look over on the error and varieties board for the 1939 DDR, it is probably a good 2-3 weeks back. I got some pretty decent pics of it, decent for me anyway, unfortunately it spent some time in the ground. I'd be interested in your thoughts on cleaning it up after you have a chance to check it out Wheezydog. I'm actually only missing the 1955, I started this adventure with about 18 holes from searching with my Dad back in the mid-80's. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I need to update my spreadsheet and post results.......I've got about 7-8 boxes to enter into it. I'm at 5 empty slots......but weirdly have pulled a 55 in each of the last 3 boxes. I think I'm at about 21 boxes total....will have to double check.
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United States
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Enjoyed the stats, DylansDad! I immediately noticed the abundance of 1943D's. As many of those as 43P's. Interesting. The 1939 DDR has evaded me, and I would love to find one. Congrats on that, and the 50d. Keep it up, both you and Nickelsearcher! And the 1955 is tough, but not impossible. I get one about one per 500 rolls on average. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I found it. Great find! https://goccf.com/t/66193I would try BadThad's Verdi-Care on it. and the usual acetone and distilled water rinse. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Try an if statement to get rid of your divide by zero errors. Something like this: =IF(C3=0,0,C2/C3) Where C2 is the total number of rolls/coins and C3 is the total count for whatever coin you are looking at. |
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United States
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Thanks Rollhunter...however I'm a CPA, and know my way around Excel pretty well, just didn't take the time on this one. I have to laugh, because I'd totally be jumping on my staff if they'd have put a spreadsheet with an error out in the public, and it never even occurred to me to fix it. Guess my CPA hat came off for the weekend.
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Valued Member
United States
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Thanks Rollhunter...however I'm a CPA, and know my way around Excel pretty well, just didn't take the time on this one. I have to laugh, because I'd totally be jumping on my staff if they'd have put a spreadsheet with an error out in the public, and it never even occurred to me to fix it. Guess my CPA hat came off for the weekend.
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United States
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Back from work again ...... sooo .... Quote:
And the 1955 is tough, but not impossible. I get one about one per 500 rolls on average. My average through 190,000 coins is one 1955-P every 593 rolls (23,750 coins). You are well over due. Looking forward to seeing all those dancing fruit when your ship comes in. David Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art |
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United States
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Sorry DylansDad, hope I didn't offend - I'm just a nit-picky programmer and my own spread sheet drove me nuts until I fixed it.
I've searched about half as many nickels as you and I just found my first 1955 and second 1945S this morning - so you'll be getting those soon I'm sure!
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Valued Member
United States
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Absolutely no offense taken. Congrats on the 1955, my guess is my Iowa locale has been the issue for me on the '55. Nuts that I haven't found one yet.
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