Nice find for 4 cents
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Sat Dec 14, 2013 7:37 pmby 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.
Re: Nice find for 4 cents
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Sat Dec 14, 2013 10:50 pmby mtalbot_ca
Nice,
I only found two in 390,000 nickels searched.
Congrats.
Re: Nice find for 4 cents
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Sun Dec 15, 2013 9:32 pmby 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...
Re: Nice find for 4 cents
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Mon Dec 16, 2013 12:20 pmby 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.
