Nice find for 4 cents

[cooyon]

Visited a new (for me) coin shop Friday in my ongoing search for Canadian cents and nickels. They only had a small amount, less than $2 FV, but I said I would take it all for .8xFV. Got home, started looking at my new stuff, and was shocked to see a 1948 nickel. This is the third-lowest mintage, 1.81 million, behind the 1925 and '26. I almost never get one of these, only my second one. The other one was in a partial set I bought at FV, so I have a total of nine cents tied up in the two 1948s. Now if it would only stop snowing.

[mtalbot_ca]

Nice,

I only found two in 390,000 nickels searched.

Congrats.

[Morsecode]

I don't know how I missed this low mintage all this time, but thanks for the heads up. I re-sorted a small bag just now and pulled 10 of them. Here's the nicest one...

[henrysmedford]

We have only four.




Untitled by henrysmedford, on Flickr

[cooyon]

This is one of the "sleeper" coins that is below the radar...folks don't talk about it like the 1925/26, but the 1948 is not an easy find...good to see that some of you have them, maybe we can find some more.