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Posted 08/30/2011 10:27 pm
Just to clarify, Ikes come in as strays. I've never seen a bank that can order them and though I've heard of people doing so, I think it's dubious at best. I got lucky once and found ~450 at the bank I order my nickels from - they begged me to take them. Usually if you find 5 it's a lot. Try grocery stores too (service desk and banks inside them). When people dip into the coin collection, they use it to buy essentials.
Though I haven't completed either, I think Kennedys are the easiest to complete followed by Jefferson nickels. Kennedys won't be for much longer I think so I'd hit those first if they interest you at all. There are SO many half dollar roll hunters out there, that silver is being stripped out at a prodigious rate. The internet makes it worse because it lets people know it's possible and gets the idea of the huge score in their heads :) I never would have started roll hunting if it weren't for stumbling on this site and for each person that posts here, there's probably 10-20 that don't. The high price of silver in the 80s didn't get it all, but that was relatively short lived and they didn't have a coin counter in every bank and every grocery store back then. There will still be some small amount of circulating silver for the foreseeable future, but your 70D will get exponentially harder to find.
Nickels will be around for awhile yet and the number of roll searchers is insignificant compared to the mintages.
Though I haven't completed either, I think Kennedys are the easiest to complete followed by Jefferson nickels. Kennedys won't be for much longer I think so I'd hit those first if they interest you at all. There are SO many half dollar roll hunters out there, that silver is being stripped out at a prodigious rate. The internet makes it worse because it lets people know it's possible and gets the idea of the huge score in their heads :) I never would have started roll hunting if it weren't for stumbling on this site and for each person that posts here, there's probably 10-20 that don't. The high price of silver in the 80s didn't get it all, but that was relatively short lived and they didn't have a coin counter in every bank and every grocery store back then. There will still be some small amount of circulating silver for the foreseeable future, but your 70D will get exponentially harder to find.
Nickels will be around for awhile yet and the number of roll searchers is insignificant compared to the mintages.
