| Author |
 Replies: 26 / Views: 13,403 |
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
860 Posts |
Hi, I'm new to this forum. My son and I specialize in collecting Jefferson nickels. We do this by getting $100 boxes of nickels at the bank and looking through them. I was wondering if anyone else has this same coin collecting interest. |
|
|
|
Valued Member
United States
370 Posts |
I collect Jefferson's, just started myself a few months ago. There quite a few here that do. Check out this thread https://goccf.com/t/24785And welcome to the boards! Edited by Lion4Life
05/14/2011 10:16 pm
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
917 Posts |
Nickels are my favorite coin out of any denomination to search. During my first few boxes, it wasn't uncommon to find a War Nickel (Nickels made of silver with a large P, D, or S on the reverse) or a Buffalo (some dateless, some with dates). A fun challenge is to see how many early Jeffersons (1938-1961) you can find in circulation and fill a folder or album with the coins. Out of the 15 boxes I've searched so far, the only ones I haven't found yet are: 1938-S, 1939-D, 1939-S, 1942-D, 1944-D, 1944-S, 1950-D, and 1951-S. |
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
1080 Posts |
yep - I'm very fond of nickels. I love that you can get coins all the way back to '38 in your bank box. If you're lucky you'll find the occasional buffalo, but the consistency of the Jefferson design means you find neat older coins.
How often do you go through a box? What do you keep and what do you release?
|
|
Bedrock of the Community
United States
10034 Posts |
 Always good to see someone getting their kids involved in the hobby. It makes for some good father/children time.  I recently had my daughter looking through some coins and she said she had found a 2005 S nickel in her piggy bank. I told her it was probably a P or D. She insisted it was an S - sure enough she was right! I wish this nickel could talk and tell me how it got out of a proof set and into circulation. How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
|
Pillar of the Community
Egypt
3470 Posts |
 to CC forum I live in Egypt (never been to USA)and I still love Jefferson nickel. I have been working on a set for 3 years now and I am about to complete it (11 Coins to go). Its a very nice set to collect.  |
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
1150 Posts |
I was at my grandpa's today, telling him how I look through bank boxes (plus I keep ALL the nickels I search...so I have about 25 boxes or so), and then he went back into his bedroom and brought out 7 rolls and gave them to me. He said they'd been 'taking up space' for a long time, and he didn't need 'em. All the nickels are pre-'59, so I thought that was pretty cool. I haven't been having much luck finding War Nickels, though. |
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
6326 Posts |
I love the Jefferson too ! I completed a Set, mostly from circulation, and now I've almost completed an all BU Jefferson Dansco with Proofs. I'm just missing a few common dates to be complete. And I have around two hundred Silver War Nickels. And I, sort of, keep all "pre-'59's" as well. I've got a neat "Westward Series" Harris folder that I have those in.....it's a small set, but pretty cool ! |
|
Valued Member
United States
111 Posts |
Jefferson's are definitely the cheapest U.S. series to collect because even the keys are inexpensive! I especially like the look of the War Nickels and the new Westward Journey Series (I guess it's not really new, actually). My personal favorite is my 1950-D in MS63. |
|
Bedrock of the Community
Canada
10743 Posts |
Quote:
I was wondering if anyone else has the same coin collecting interest. wheezydog and you are going to get along just great. |
|
Pillar of the Community
 United States
860 Posts |
Lion4Life,
Thanks for the link to the other thread. I started reading it. It's 160 pages long!
specksynder,
I'll post what we keep and what we don't when I have a little more time to type.
Be back later.
|
|
Moderator
 United States
15389 Posts |
Indeed ... There are several forum members who do the same ... roll search for Jefferson. I have been through 244,000 coins this way.  Looking forward to hearing you and your sons successes. David |
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
594 Posts |
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
721 Posts |
JonNickelCollector. My daughter and I are doing the same thing. We have gone through 3 boxes already and have some more to do this summer when she is on vacation. It is a great thing to do with your kids. I'm trying to teach her how to do this, and with nickels, I think it's easy to do, and not too expensive. The problem I'm having is keeping her interested, but we do it occasionally and we don't overdo things. Sometimes she asks "can we sort coins today?" Welcome and share your stories of any finds. Enjoy the time with your son!
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
809 Posts |
I started collecting Jefferson nickels and Lincoln cents back when I was 9 years old and they are still my favorites!  |
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
860 Posts |
drdave, How old is your daughter? My son is a high school freshman. He got interested in collecting from looking at my collection. He's been at it for probably close to 10 years now. I mostly collected wheat pennies when I was growing up. After graduating from college in 1990, I collected nickels for a couple years, then did no collecting until a couple years ago when my son got me re-interested in collecting again. The reason I got into nickel collecting back in 1990 was that I found a number of older nickels in change and was not finding older pennies as much and not older dimes or quarters at all. I realized that since the Jefferson nickels had not changed much in appearance for decades, their were still older nickels left in circulation and the nickel was the best coin to try to collect from circulation. |
| |
Replies: 26 / Views: 13,403 |
Posted 05/14/2011 10:23 pm
