The $200 Nickels Fed Bag Search Yesterday
SaorAlba
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I have been searching the cents for quite awhile - getting kind of boring. Last week I bought a $100 box of nickels and turned up a dateless Buffer, a few early Jeffersons some S mints - and really I like the find vs. reject ratio a bit better than cents.
So this week my bank teller said they would have a bag going back to the Fed unless I bought it - these are all cashed in merchants receipts that get fed into their coin counter and credited to the merchant's accounts. The bags are in the amount of $200.
Yesterday I went in and saved the bag from the infernal Federal Reserve bank in Chicago and instead brought them home.
Wowzer!
7 Buffers:
1920
1935
1936
1938-D
3 dateless
Jeffersons
1940
1941 x 4
1942
1943-P silver!
1944-P silver!
1945-P silver
1946
1948 x 3
1950
1954-D x 2
1954
1956 x 2
1957 x 2
1957-D x 2
1958-D x 3
1959-D x 2
1959 x 2
San Francisco minted nickels:
1940
1941
1943 - silver!
1947
1952-S x 2
1954-S
1968 x 7
1969 x 6
1970 x 16
Canada
1980 - only save because the ones from before 1981 are worth double face melt right now.
Then there was an orphan cent that somehow found it's way into the bag but then it was a 1974-S!
I am still ecstatic about finding 7 Buffalos in the whole lot. I would have never thought I would have found one in circulated nickels until last week, then I found the one. I cannot believe I found 7 of them, but can only conjecture that because of where I live(community with lots of older folks) that maybe it should not be so unusual. None of the Buffalos will win any beauty or grading contests but I am happy with them.
Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!
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<< <i>They were skint of cents yesterday, they come in $50 bags - but they are waiting for an older customer to come in with four large Folger's coffee tins full of cents saved over the years. >>
Here's to hoping there are no numismatists in employ at the bank
Leo
The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!
My Jefferson Nickel Collection
<< <i>You should have them save you the Halves!! My bank won't do it any more, but I would find silver all the time in those!! >>
Oh, those I get from my credit union. I bank with seven different institutions. And even more branches than that. So I get lots of goodies.
Hoard the keys.
<< <i>You should have them save you the Halves!! My bank won't do it any more, but I would find silver all the time in those!! >>
Is yoru bank TD? they wont order me halves anymore
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