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nickelsearcher Moderator United States 15392 Posts	Posted 08/05/2010 8:55 pm Fair Warning ...... this contest has some math involved! This is my first ever hosted contest here at the CCF ...... and I admit up front that my goal is to encourage some interest in roll-searching USA nickels. Prize for the winner is an absolutely stunning USA nickel .... so let's get that out of the way up front ...... Winner of this contest will receive from me a 1944-D War Silver Jefferson graded and slabbed as MS66 by PCGS. This nickel has light golden toning overall, full cartwheel luster, and enough step detail that IMHO it could qualify for FS designation if re-submitted to PCGS. Soooo ... to the contest ... Contest Rules: 1. Contest is open to all CCF members ..... I will pay shipping to any country for the winner. 2. Contest will remain open until someone answers all 4 questions to my satisfaction. 3. I will judge the accuracy of the answers and reserve the right to humbly reject any 'guesses' not supported by a reasonable methodology. 4. The winner must get all 4 questions correct in a single posted reply ...... multiple replies are acceptable but the correct answers must be contained within one individual post. 5. The questions are posed relative to what today's roll searcher will find in bank rolled Jefferson nickels ...... so you should use the data from the referenced posts to figure out the answers. 6. I'll answer any question asking for clarification or hints as I get to them. Resources and Support: This is not a hard contest ...... and I would not be surprised to see it over very quickly ..... All the data and information you need is contained in recent CCF posts related to nickel searching. You will find all you need to answer at the following two threads ....... Check out my latest 200,000 coin summary here: https://goccf.com/t/69470 Check out the latest nickel roll search thread here: https://goccf.com/t/24785&whichpage=116 Sooo ..... within those pages are all the data needed to answer the following four questions ..... Contest Questions: 1. How many $100 boxes of nickels will it take (on average) to find one $2 roll (40 coins) of War Silver Jefferson? 2. If you searched one (1) $100 box of nickels per week .... how long (in weeks) will it take you (on average) to complete the Jefferson circulation strike series 1938-1959? 3. Provide an estimate (to the nearest 1 million) of the number of 1938-1959 Jefferson circulation strike coins still in circulation today. 4. How many Bermuda (fish) nickels did coppernickeldaddy report finding at his 18,000 roll update? I'm looking forward to the replies ..... hopeful that someone out there has enough interest in the topic to win the prize. David Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art Report this Post to the Staff

Pinenut Valued Member United States 462 Posts	Posted 08/05/2010 9:31 pm Thanks for the contest. 1. 67.8 boxes to find a roll of war nicks 2. 96.4 weeks 3. 657 million 1938-1959 nicks remaining in circulation 4. 12 Bermuda nick Report this Post to the Staff
Adam_E Pillar of the Community United States 4846 Posts	Posted 08/05/2010 9:44 pm 64.5 82 742m 13 Report this Post to the Staff
DylansDad Valued Member United States 476 Posts	Posted 08/05/2010 9:45 pm Contest Questions: 1. How many $100 boxes of nickels will it take (on average) to find one $2 roll (40 coins) of War Silver Jefferson? 67.8 boxes 2. If you searched one (1) $100 box of nickels per week .... how long (in weeks) will it take you (on average) to complete the Jefferson circulation strike series 1938-1959? 96.37 weeks 3. Provide an estimate (to the nearest 1 million) of the number of 1938-1959 Jefferson circulation strike coins still in circulation today. 426 million! 4. How many Bermuda (fish) nickels did coppernickeldaddy report finding at his 18,000 roll update? 16 fish nickels! See how that goes...you rock my friend. Edited by DylansDad 08/05/2010 9:48 pm Report this Post to the Staff
nickelsearcher Moderator United States 15392 Posts	Posted 08/05/2010 9:45 pm Wow ..... I was prophetic .... Quote: This is not a hard contest ...... and I would not be surprised to see it over very quickly ..... Pinenut nailed it right out of the gate .... Congratulations .. four correct answers to my way too easy questions. Now the winner of that lovely 1944-D PCGS MS66 War Nickel. PM me you address and I'll get her off to you. I somehow created the shortest lived contest ever at CCF. David Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art Report this Post to the Staff
Adam_E Pillar of the Community United States 4846 Posts	Posted 08/05/2010 9:49 pm oops, meant to say 12. how many guesses can we make per day? Report this Post to the Staff
Adam_E Pillar of the Community United States 4846 Posts	Posted 08/05/2010 9:50 pm nvm Report this Post to the Staff
DylansDad Valued Member United States 476 Posts	Posted 08/05/2010 9:53 pm Really? What did I have wrong? Found mintage data here: http://www.bestcoin.com/jefferson-n...-mintage.htm Which has total mintage of 2,283,096,278 of which 81.34% are gone = 1,857,070,513 leaving what I calculated as 426,025,765 still in circulation. Congrats to Pinenut, I'm just curious what I messed up? Report this Post to the Staff
wolf-n-wa Pillar of the Community United States 602 Posts	Posted 08/05/2010 10:07 pm Thanks for the contest nickelsearcher. I learned alot just by reading and doin the math which I messed up bad on so I did'nt even get to guess. WOLF Report this Post to the Staff
nickelsearcher Moderator United States 15392 Posts	Posted 08/05/2010 10:15 pm Quote: Really? What did I have wrong? Fair question ..... allow me to address it. BTW ..... should have had question #5 ..... How many more 43-D does DylansDad have than me? Anyways ..... your error amigo is that you the years in question are 1938-1959 .... and the total mintage of Jefferson circulation strikes over those years is 3,524.4 million ...... thats a fact and I did not take the time to add up the numbers in your hyperlink. Sooooo ..... 18.66% remaining of an original mintage of 3,524.4 million is 657.6 million ..... as corrected stated by Pinenut. Not sure how you arrived at your number of 2,283 million mintage ..... but therein lies your error. David Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art Report this Post to the Staff
TNG Bedrock of the Community United States 10284 Posts	Posted 08/05/2010 10:40 pm Woweeeee I went to see Willie Nelson and missed this one. What a beautiful prize! Congrats and thanks for hosting a contest! Report this Post to the Staff
DylansDad Valued Member United States 476 Posts	Posted 08/05/2010 11:01 pm LOL...after starting to get ticked off...finding 3 websites that got the same number...I realized I was only doing through 1949! LOL Anyway...congrats to Pinenut again. Report this Post to the Staff
Pinenut Valued Member United States 462 Posts	Posted 08/06/2010 01:35 am Cool! Thanks guys. And thanks to Nickelsearcher for hosting a really great contest. I think you hit your target audience right on the nose with this one. I haven't been able to search as much as a lot of you folks but I really enjoy it when I can. I've been following Circulation Obsolescence from the beginning and have been comparing to my own stats I keep in an excel sheet. I started adding up the mintage numbers for the 1938-1959 nicks using http://www.coincommunity.com/us_nic...efferson.asp but then remembered they are all in that excel sheet already. Anyway. Thanks again David. My PM is on its way. Report this Post to the Staff
Adam_E Pillar of the Community United States 4846 Posts	Posted 08/06/2010 10:30 am Quote: I somehow created the shortest lived contest ever at CCF i think the shortest contests are the PIF rounds. Edited by Adam_E 08/06/2010 10:31 am Report this Post to the Staff
Pinenut Valued Member United States 462 Posts	Posted 08/12/2010 03:14 am @NS Received the coin yesterday. It's awesome. Thanks a million. Report this Post to the Staff
nickelsearcher Moderator United States 15392 Posts	Posted 08/13/2010 8:50 pm Wonderful ...... I will now ask the Mod-Dudes to eliminate this thread. David Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art Report this Post to the Staff
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