How often do you find 50 year old BU coins in circulation?

I went to Arby's yesterday, bought my sandwich and noticed an off colored nickel in the change that I received. I looked into the cash draw and saw a bunch more of the same nickel. It turned out that someone had dumped a roll of 1962-D Jefferson into circulation. I got the rest that were left in hopes of finding a variety, but no luck.




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You often find stuff like that when searching rolls. Besides people looking for varieties, a lot of dealers will get nickel and cent collections, just take out the keys and dump the rest.
years ago my wife, who has a keen eye got a BU roll of 64d dimes that a guy
bought some gas with, a week later same guy she says gave her a roll of
63D BU dimes for gas, and she bought them and brought them home, then
a few monthes later she brought home a bu 54s dime, (just One) and I said
to her wheres the rest of them (expecting a roll of them) she said she just
got one...........I guess I got spoiled
Steve
of coins were set aside and collectors were clamoring to get more because these
were believed to be the road to riches. The government even blamed collectors
for the ongoing coin shortage but of course they weren't really the cause since fer-
er than 20,000,000 coins of each date were being saved and the government was
pumping hundreds of millions of coins into the void caused by the general public
hoarding mostly silver. People tossed their coins into buckets and were slow to re-
deem them because everyone knew silver would skyrocket.
These rolls and bags of coins that were hoarded are still coming into circulation a
few here and a few there. The attrition on nickels is very high leaving relatively few
coins in circulation so it doesn't take many old BU coins to be seen. You'll also no-
tice a disproportionate number of XF and AU old coins as well caused by the same
process. This occurs with pennies as well but pennies spend so little time in circu-
lation that one can pass from one change jug to the next without getting much wear.
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Bob
When I got back to the table, I was able to build almost a complete set of the 1st 5 years of the state quarters, all UNC (until a few moments earlier). Somebody cashed in an album.
No proofs or silvers though.
HH
1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
<< <i>Don't be surprised at what a lot of dealers put back into circulation by way of "deposits". >>
This is true. In the early 1980's I worked for a dealer that was going to deposit several dozen BU rolls of nickels from 1956-1969 that had been accumulating in the vault. I retrieved 10-15 rolls at face value and stashed them away. They haven't made me rich, having Greysheet values ranging from $2.50 to around $10, but after all these years, I'd hate to put them in circulation.
Jim
<< <i>As I was sitting on the throne, a shiny copper colored round coin on the floor caught my eye - it was about half-covered by the trash can pedal.
Looks very nice. But there's a coin I would bathe in acetone no matter what.
Lance.
I also dropped 2 proof Jefferson nickels into circulation last week.
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