How Many Cherry Pick Jeff. Nickels From Bank?

ChuckC

It seems like finding old jeff. nickels are your best bet these days. 40s, 50s, and 60s nickels pass thru my hands all the time, but too bad they are obliterated. However, I've also found that old jeffersons in AU+ are not that hard to find with some honest to goodness digging thru a bunch of rolls. I found a mint state 59 last month. And with Jeffersons becoming more popular, espeically with the 'full steps' designation and it's ability to tone well, might these old gems be finally taken out of circualtion? anyway, does anyone cherry pick thru nickels from the bank?

mgoodm3

I gave up on rolls a long time ago because all that ever got was counting machine damaged coins.

tsacch

I used to as a kid...and after completing several full sets in circ I stopped......it would be fun to do now.....and yes sooner or later the older jeffs will be like wheaties...harder and harder to find.

coinfreak499

I filled almost a whole whitman 1962-1995 from the bank and am working on a 1938-1961 set now where I have about 15 filled 13 of which are from the bank. Including the 1938 jeff.

Sn3nut

Reminds me of when I first started collecting nickels (back in the '60's.) My Dad told me I should get some rolls of nickels and go through them to find the ones I needed to fill my folder. I went to the corner store and bought two rolls. I was hoping that there might even be a few Buffalo nickels mixed in with the Jeffersons. Imagine my surprise when I got home and dumped them out on the table. All eighty were V-nickels. He immediately went to the same store and bought all of their remaining rolls, but they were all Jeffersons. I sold the V-nickels to him for ten cents each. Some times it's better to be lucky than good.

RGL

Good luck filling even most of a 1938-64 Jeff nickel Whiteman from circulation/bank rolls today ... I recall searching thousands of rolls back in the early '80s to see how much of an album I could fill. I ended up with every date but 38-S, 39-D and 50-D. I can't imagine how much more difficult it would be 20 years later ... but, hey, you go through enough coins, who knows?

cladking

<< <i>Good luck filling even most of a 1938-64 Jeff nickel Whiteman from circulation/bank rolls today ... I recall searching thousands of rolls back in the early '80s to see how much of an album I could fill. I ended up with every date but 38-S, 39-D and 50-D. I can't imagine how much more difficult it would be 20 years later ... but, hey, you go through enough coins, who knows? >>



I did this in the early to mid-'70's. I found everything except the '50-D.

The only '50-D I ever found was in 1964 and I sold it the same day to a dealer for $24, which was a small fortune at the time.

ar18

I still go through 50 bucks in nickels a week, have built a mighty fine roll set, also still find silver, plenty of 62 and below nickels and even a war nickel now and then. I have bank bags upon bank bags(somewhere around 11,000+ nickels) of pre 64 jeffersons from the years but some were also bought from estate sales and other board members. In the last 5 years I have found every coin in the set. I just do it for fun.

Jeff

Shamika

I pick up a few rolls of Jefferson nickels from time to time for my son to go through. He has found several 1940, a 1946, a 1947, a bunch from the 50's. He has great fun doing it.

BeeMan

I look for new rolls of coins at work to try to find a high grade piece for my collection. Unfortunately the store I am in does not receive many new rolls of anything. I have yet to see a roll of either of this years nickels.

ziggy29

<< <i>The only '50-D I ever found was in 1964 and I sold it the same day to a dealer for $24, which was a small fortune at the time. >>

The '50-D nickel has to be one of the worst "investments" in the history of numismatics. Well, if you don't count things like mint state 1903-O Morgans, anyway.

ChuckC

Since I started this thread, I had a chance to go thru the $10 worth I bought at the bank today. Found a keeper....

The left most 1955-D: cherry picked when I was a kid. Right most: cherry picked today...mint state, two steps, great tone, great strike (coins are less gold toned than the photo suggests)

cladking

In many cases, it's actually easier to find the older coins in high grade than it is
the later date examples. Many people used to collect the older coins and they
can find their way back into circulation. A coin like a '71 nickel was ignored and
they have almost all circulated continuously for more than thirty years.

kenoshapete

I still do. I started out on collecting Jefferson nickles back in the mid-seventies. I thought they were cool then, and I still think they're cool now. But, I can't wait for next years jeffalo's to come out. They're gonna be even cooler yet.

ar18

AJ2525

I try to go through $10 worth every week or so. I've found most of the dates but very few before 1954. An occasional silver shows up and I'm surprised at finding 9 1939s in the last year. It's sort of nice living in Colorado I find a few 40Ds and 41Ds and not so many 40 and 41s. I finally bought a 39D and 39S. Now I'm only missing the 38.

ChuckC

Well, I expeanded my cherry picking efforts....$50 worth of rolls! Man, you should see this BLAZING hot 1970-D I found: frost, cartwheel, ms65 at least, chance at 66...but no steps at all...in fact, looking at pop reports, very few full steps 70-D's exist. In all, kept about 25-30 to help boost my folders. Highlights besides the 70-D: 42-P silver nickel, frosty BU 61-D

Lots of junked up 50s, 60s, a few 40s. Like I said, they are out there, and the mint state pieces are still around, but dwindling. Couldn't get the same results with 1c, 10c, or 25c if you tried!

InYHWHWeTrust

Hit and miss, about 3 or 4 times a year I get some coins at the bank to go through ('yard sale change money I say to the teller') with the kids. The Jeffs are definitely the best yield on 'older' coins compared to pennies, dimes and quarters. Kennedy 40% are about 1/30 coins here. Have yet to find a silver quarter or dime in rolls. Re: jeffs, we have found a 38-P, many 40s, including S's here on the East Coast, and like some of you, better grade coins now than when I pulled them for my Whitman in 1973!

Lots of fun, hey, it's been a few months......off to the bank tomorrow, time for another 'yard sale' this weekend

sliderider

I sometimes grab a roll or two looking for silver nickels, but I don't pick anything else. I leave those for others.

Hoot

ChuckC - Great looking 55 you found there. A typically nasty, beaten-up issue. An especially nice find from a bank roll.

Hoot