New Nickels good or bad

silverandvinyl

Investment wise or or looks.If investment wise what would make them good or bad?If looks are the case ,do you think they will end up like SBA?

flaminio

For an investment? Bad. I can't imagine anyone seriously considering the new nickels as an investment vehicle.

End up like the SBA? What does that mean?

silverandvinyl

I always thought the SBA was a terrible looking coin.The USMint still has millions of them in their vaults.Over the pass 3 years I purchased 50 of them for gifts and donations.I just can not see them as a collectable item.

Flaminio;This is just my opinion but I'm sure there are 1000's more like me.

cladking

Keep a look out for varieties. There are still a lot of these being made so there
might be some on these too. A lot of people are saying the quality is poor so watch
for nice clean well-made specimens. It's always fun to look and you never know what
you'll find. As far as typical coins in typical condition, it may be many years before they
command much of a premium.

CarlWohlforth

Buying rolls of new nickels and stashing them seems likely to be a bad investment. I am guessing that because there are huge numbers being minted. Of course someone could have *the* roll with several MS 67s in it to prove me wrong. The new nickels seem to be fairly low quality on average. If you find a super high grade coin in a roll or mint set that might possibly be a good investment....

boston

Maybe this is a good variety? Doubling on the G,O,D, and top left of the W.
Have more than one example. Not very good at getting scans.
Reverse is slightly offset and the edge has a offset ring around it.

Boston Bob

boston

Not very good at attaching files either!

Placid

There will be condition rarites. As far as saving the average ms ones no.

clackamas

I think those are strike doubles.

TheLiberator

<< <i>Investment wise or or looks.If investment wise what would make them good or bad?If looks are the case ,do you think they will end up like SBA? >>



Investment wise? I think most of us "know" the answer there...
Looks wise? Well that all depends. I personally don't like them too much. I believe that the mint could use some better artistic eyes. I REALLY wish we (the U.S.) would get off the non-fictional characters we depict on our coins. I understand how great many of these presidents were, but at least try something more artistic. I saw some Goetz pattern pieces the other day and I couldn't believe how pretty some of them were. Among other foreign coins, even a simple common Yen had a much better design than we come up with! The recycling of our best designs is also strange to me. The silver eagle?! I LOVE the walker design but lets try for something new!

And I know I am babbling here, but does anyone else like the 1987 constitution gold comem piece? It has a really interesting depiction of the liberty eagle. I guess many thought it "too cartoony" and it never sold well, but I thought it was a good stab at artistic interpretation....


my 2 cents

Cam40

machine doubling,strike doubling.
the doubling is lower, flat and shelf-like.

real doubled die strikes are different.
no shelf-like doubling but the height of
the doubled devices( number, letter etc.)
are the same.

tilt the coin the see this better

Shamika

I like the look of the new nickels (though I've not held one yet).

Investment coin? No way.

flaminio

<< <i>I always thought the SBA was a terrible looking coin.The USMint still has millions of them in their vaults. >>



Actually, they don't. That's why they made more in 1999, and that's why the Mint started making Sackies: they had run out of SBAs.

boston

Thanks for the info Cam40.

Clackamas called it.

I hadn't noticed it before, but the top of the "I and N" show a very thin shelf. The rest of it appears to be about 1/2 the height.

Boston Bob