So I realize I have about 28,000 pre 1960 nickels
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Not sure why I’m sharing this but I just finished organizing them and it dawned on me I may have been hoarding all these years. I don’t need a lot of sleep so I use to roll search nickels and thought it would be fun to see if I could put together a roll set of Jefferson’s from circulation. I put all pre 1960 nickels into canvas bags and when I stopped roll searching I started sorting. In the end I have approximately 28,000 nickels. Out of the thousands of rolls I searched I never found a 50 d or a 39 d, and I stopped saving the 1959’s. Now that I’m all organized I don’t know exactly what to do with them. I probably don’t need 25 rolls of 1939 nickels. A few pictures below.
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That is awesome!
Condolences.
Ebay. Not a huge profit but there is a little money to be made.
I'd search the Henning dates for fakes, though. A 1946 Henning just sold on Ebay for over $1000.
I just told my wife about this and she said I don't seem as weird now. Not sure if that is a compliment or not
You might say that is a lot of time on your hands. Why did you go with nickels, instead of something that had a higher likelihood of yielding silver?
How many "other" coins did you get out of all that searching? A ton of Buffs?
I wonder how many albums you could fill up....!
surf
Wow, lots of nickels! I don’t have that many but I’ve been fortunate enough to find a 39d in change. I’ve not found a 39s, 42d t1, 48s or a 50d but I was able to get most of a 38-64 set.
Best thing you could do (although I don’t recommend it) is buy a coin wrapping machine and sell them on eBay as old bank rolls...
Or you could sell them as rolls and unsearched for varieties.
I have nothing to add to that.
Welcome to the club. It's a sickness. You and I might be the sickest of all. Glad I have company. I want to give mine to a YN for FREE but the postage cost would be nuts. Today, I got 5 really nice 2019-D nickels in change at the gas station. I carefully wrapped them in a piece of paper...........HELP!
That’s how I’m feeling right now after seeing what I have.
I picked Jefferson’s because I thought those gave me the best opportunity to find a roll set in circulation. Found a few hundred buffalo nickels, lots of Canadian, a couple well worn V nickels and a few proofs.
Unless you really just want to get rid of them, I’d probably search them for major varieties.
Years ago I saved pre-1960 nickels as well, and quit after amassing several hundred.
When Cherrypickers came out, I went through and found a ‘39 DDR, and a D/S ‘46? in the group.
After that I let yn’s go through them to fill Whitman folders.
You could solve the National coin shortage !
Kidding. That’s an impressive sort.
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Hours of fun.
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--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.I also have many tubes of old Jeff nickels accumulated in change over the years. I know that they are not worth much, if anything over face. However, I cannot bring myself to get rid of them. I also have a $200.00 face value 1962 unopened mint bag of nickels.
When I first started collecting as a YN in the early '80's; Jefferson Nickels were the first series I collected. I filled most of those holes from change I got back, or, from my parents loose change. What a time.
I remember getting a 1938 dated Jefferson back in change, and rubbing my eyes to make sure I wasn't mistaking the find for a '58. I don't believe collecting was ever more fun than those days. I still save pre '60 Jefferson's when I get them back if they aren't too badly worn, or, damaged.
Roll hunting Jeff nickels is great. Only historic circulating coin you can actually realistically complete an entire album of from CRH.
Yep ... a lot of nickels.
Back in the early 1960's I found every date and mint except for the 1950-D.
So weird, but I save Jeffs too. Have a safe full and have no idea why I do that. I have found them all and then started the Cherrypicking process. Did find several (3) 43/2 war nickels. Still have most of them and probably will just cash them in as not much market and I hate the ebay shipping.
bob
I found all dates except the 1939-D. I can still recall getting a 1950 and turning it over and seeing the little D.
I'm afraid to count how many I have. I went through the hoarding phase and have tons of BU rolls, probably 40 or 50 BU sets, a 100 or so circ. sets(minus the war nickels as the silver peak got them) and I have never spent a nickel dated before 1960. I also bought several large deals of pre 1960 circ. nickels.
I know a certain dealer that would pale all of us combined with his hoard of Jefferson Nickels as he offered them to me a while back!
Any interest in selling your hoard maybe I should look to expand mine?
I doubt it. I get great pleasure and hoping I can watch what my kids do with them when I'm gone!
Amazing you didn't find at least one 1950-D.
Were there any circulated proofs?
peacockcoins
Back before I retired from the coin shop in 2010 I used to save pre-1960 nickels for a dealer who came by 2-3 times a year buying bulk junk. He gave me 8 cents each.
For sure check them for any errors/varieties.
Dump them into circulation. Local coin collectors won't know what the heck happened!
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
In just 18 more years, your first batch of nickels would turn 100 years old.
Think about it for a minute.
Same here.
I think the 1939 should be checked for DDR-001. You'll want to look for the 1942-D/horizontal D too if you have any of that date and Mint.
Do not dispose of them.
They could go up in value as a collectible coin (ditto the Roosevelt dime and Washington quarter) if the current protests of all things politically incorrect succeed in removing TJ, FDR and GW from the nickel, dime and quarter.
TJ and GW owned slaves and FDR interned Japanese citizens during WWII. Cannot go along with that, so remove the from our coinage (and currency).
I remember being about 9 years old and in the lunch line at school. The kid in front of me paid for his lunch. I don't remember if I asked to look at his change or if he found it on his own. but he got a 39-D in change. I do remember trying to buy it from him, but he wouldn't sell. 50+ years in the hobby and that was the closest I ever came to finding something good in change. Anyway, tonight I'm thinking that if he had sold it to me, this could have been my thread. Dodged a bullet there!
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That's pretty cool to see
Yeah, like mentioned above. Check for the Henning's!
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I still don’t have a 39-D, but was lucky enough to find a nice 50-D probably in the third box of nickels I ever searched. It’s really fun trying to complete/constantly upgrade a Jefferson Dansco album via circulating coins only. Also interesting how incredibly difficult it is to find nice examples of some of the more common dates.
Just think what a Stone Mountain Half will be worth if they deface the mountain!
Don't take offense to what I am going say - but get rid of them! You're not going to get rich hoarding them. After you have searched them for varieties, I see no other reason to hold them. In fact, the cash you have tied up in them could probably buy several MS graded nickels you don't even have. JMHO
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You have around 1400 bucks in nickels. Have you ever considered buying some gold with that money?
I agreed with the condolences statement cause I’ve been there and done that when I was much, much younger. I did it with buffalo nickels and Mercury dimes when I was a kid . I remember how much my head hurt after a long time of searching.
Whatever you end up doing, good luck my coin brother.
After thinking about this overnight, I realize that the reason I have so many nickels is that when I was a kid a nickel was a lot of money. It had value.
bob
Save yourself a lot of time and effort. Just pull out the rolls of 38-D & S and 39-S (plus any silver nickels) and cash in the rest. Circulated Jefferson nickels had their day during the great coin boom of the early 1960's but died along with that boom and have never recovered.
I did find a 1959 circ. Proof.
at least you have $1400 saved
Incredible!
So, a couple of years ago I realized that I probably had about 36K pre-1960 nickels. I had sifted through probably 400K nickels to find those. But the sad fact is that most of them have/had no real value over face. So over the last couple of years I sifted through them again and culled out most of the lot and only kept about 2k or a box worth of nickels that were 1938-39, mintmarked, some semi-keys like the 1950 and 1955 Philly etc. Also kept stuff EF and above but culled the rest into the coin machine at my credit union. Going back through I found some '39-D's that I hadn't separated out - which was convenient because some were pretty nice and awhile back I traded some of those with a local collector who was sifting through boxes of quarters looking for W mintmarks.
Check your 1939's for DDR's. I found two in a few hundred bucks total.
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You post inspired me to peruse 1950-D's on ebay and ultimately it led me to this:
https://www.pcgs.com/cert/16394619
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
I'd venture to say a bit more if he wants to take the time to list them on eBay.
Search them for Cherrypicker's Guide varieties. A good number of them can get a decent premium on eBay, even in circulated grades.
Ruin a bank branch’s day. Take them in and say you want one dollar bills.
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