Sweet nickel score!

[FingerGrime]

You might remember my post a few days ago about finding a bunch of rainbow-toned uncirculated 1960D cents. Well, I went back to the bank I got the cents from, and purchased a bag of nickels.
Their ended up being about four rolls worth of uncirculated 1966 nickels:

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Now that was pretty cool and all, but I also found 19 war nickels!!! My average per bag was 1.3 war nickels per bag. That is 14.6 times my average. All but two of the nickels were 1944P. The other two were 1944D and 1945P.







Not including war nickels, I found about the same number of pre-60s as usual (42). Also of note, I found my third 1955 for the year. I have found an unusual number of 1955s this year. Also, I got a bu 1953S. Strangely enough, I just found one of these in about the same condition just a few weeks ago.

 

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[mlayers]

Wow that was a very sweet score.......Matt

 

[jrf30]

That's a cool number of war nickels.

Good job!!

 

[CHAINCHOMP]

amazing finds! keep it up and hh!

 

[legend76]

Sweet, dude!

 

[timbobwey]

Nice, that's a great nickle hunt.

 

[999digger]

Good job on those nickels. The BU nickels are really nice to find out in the wild, especially the older ones. Nice war nickel score too. Keep up the good work.
HH

 

[mountainman 2]

Great job on the war nickels. Congrats and thanks for the pics!

 

[Saabman]

Nice haul!!!! WTG!!!

 

[buckanear]

Nice score

 

[Felixaaron]

Wow great haul. I average 1 war per 2 boxes. Do you date search every nickel?

Since my average is so low, I started only checking dates for the heads up coins and checking only the backs for the upside down coins.

 

[FingerGrime]

I typically only check the coins with higher relief. The ones from the '60s and earlier are this way. It seems like some from the early to mid 80s have high relief too. I can pretty quickly eliminate all but the older ones and then date check the older coins. I don't bother checking the dates on the low-relief coins.

 

[Felixaaron]

I typically only check the coins with higher relief. The ones from the '60s and earlier are this way. It seems like some from the early to mid 80s have high relief too. I can pretty quickly eliminate all but the older ones and then date check the older coins. I don't bother checking the dates on the low-relief coins.

This is a really good point. Thanks!

 

[EastKyMiner]

Nice score on the nickels FingerGrime, and nice pics

HH...Miner