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This week sorting $100FV: Above average box

Nickels: 221 (for 11%)
1980s: 36
1970s: 149
1960s: 32
1950s: 3 (1956, 1959x2)
1940s: 1 (1942)

Worth mentionning:
2000P: 2
1967 x 1 (rabbit)
1942, 1947 US Nickel

Cleaning out boxes of US 5 cents.

Took 5 boxes to find my first war nickel - a worn 43 S.
Same box produced a really decent 37 Buffalo. First one I've seen in the wild myself in years.

(Have about 10 more bank boxes to work through.)

68Camaro wrote:Cleaning out boxes of US 5 cents.

Took 5 boxes to find my first war nickel - a worn 43 S.
Same box produced a really decent 37 Buffalo. First one I've seen in the wild myself in years.

(Have about 10 more bank boxes to work through.)

Making room are we?

It takes me around two hours per canadian box to pull out the .999. Is it around the same on the US ones?

This week sorting $100FV: Above average box

Nickels: 222 (for 11.1%)
1980s: 44
1970s: 131
1960s: 39
1950s: 1 (1958)
1940s: 1 (1941)

Worth mentionning:
2000P: 2
10 cent Cuba

mtalbot_ca wrote:

68Camaro wrote:Cleaning out boxes of US 5 cents.

Took 5 boxes to find my first war nickel - a worn 43 S.
Same box produced a really decent 37 Buffalo. First one I've seen in the wild myself in years.

(Have about 10 more bank boxes to work through.)

Making room are we?

It takes me around two hours per canadian box to pull out the .999. Is it around the same on the US ones?

I guess. The boxes of nickels were one of the first steps I took early in the preparations process, when I didn't have stockpiles of anything of significance. I have since bought a fair amount of .999 nickel (Canadian and French) and what with the other stockpiles built up over the past couple of years (cents and PM) decided that most of the nickels could stand to go (but not before being searched). I'll keep a couple of sorted boxes on hand, even so.

I hope I'm not missing too much but I can do a box in about an hour. I'm not getting all the old dates, but I think I'm getting the war nickels, the buffalos, the foreign coin (I get a couple of .999 canadians in most boxes), and as many of the pre-1961 coins as I can easily spot without turning over every coin. It's probably easier to do these than what you're doing, though if I had your target I'd probaby be trying to use a Ryedale for an automated nickel sort.

68Camaro wrote:

mtalbot_ca wrote:

68Camaro wrote:It's probably easier to do these than what you're doing, though if I had your target I'd probaby be trying to use a Ryedale for an automated nickel sort.

True, but I could not ''afford'' the speed of a Ryedale

On a side note, I think my percentage are improving because everybody is getting rid of their pennies and emptying their spare change jars, so older nickel is re-circulating.

$100 box from de bank produced......1 43p war & 1 1937 Buffalo

$100 Box

1903 Liberty(V) nickel (first for me to find in wild!)
1--dateless Buffalo
2--War nicks
1-- 20 cent Singapore coin

sparechange wrote:$100 Box

1903 Liberty(V) nickel (first for me to find in wild!)
1--dateless Buffalo
2--War nicks
1-- 20 cent Singapore coin

Congrats on the V-nickel!

Based on the first 4 boxes searched I never would have touched another nickel box, had I not already stored a bunch of boxes. But then on the fifth box (as noted above), some goodies.

Did 3 more boxes this morning and the averages are picking up. A total of 5 war nickels from the 3 boxes, plus a dateless buffalo and another 37.

So from 8 boxes: 6 war nickels and 3 buffalos. (Plus assorted 39s-thru-60s.) This might just cause me to switch to nickel searching. I'm tired of cent sorting for now, and the dime, quarter, and half sorting has produced nothing but heartache for me. At least this is producing some results as well as some gratification!

8 more boxes left to search, from the old hoard. Depending on what they yield I may start ordering some more nickel boxes.

[Edit - I had lost track of a box.] Did 3 more boxes. From first two, 5 more war nickels and another dateless buffalo and... a 1902 V nickel! Third box was a skunk for anything very interesting. So of 11 boxes so far 5 skunks, but from the other 6 boxes a total of 11 war nickels, 4 buffaloes, and a V nickel. Seems it is either feast or famine, but there is enough in the boxes to keep me interested.

Not bad. In over 250,000 nickels I have found only one warnick.

This week sorting $100FV: Excellent box

Nickels: 351 (for 17,5%)
1980s: 66
1970s: 220
1960s: 63
1950s: 2 (1956,1959)

Worth mentionning:
1944 Victory - Steel
2000P: 4
10 cents Canada
1970
1941 US nickel

Two boxes this morning. One gave up a 36 Buffalo and the other a 43s. Plus a dime a 67 Belgian franc and an arcade token (sloppy box).

Since they got rid of the pennies, I sort 2 x 100$ per week, so her is the other one of the day:

$100FV: Above average box

Nickels: 208 (for 10.4%)
1980s: 40
1970s: 138
1960s: 28
1950s: 1 (1950)
1940s: 1 (1949)

Worth mentionning:
2000P: 1
1952 Steelee

I don't post much in this thread but usually sort 2 boxes a week. I just finished a box without a single Ag but did find a home for 2 dateless buffs and a 1938D which fills a hole in the album. Happy with that find.

YTD
$1700 sorted
3 Buffs
14 Ag

Two more boxes night before last. 3 more war nickels. No buffaloes.

The first box for this week's sorting $100FV: Above average box

Nickels: 226 (for 11.3%)
1980s: 44
1970s: 146
1960s: 35
1950s: 0
1940s: 0
1930s: 1 (1937)

Worth mentionning:
2000P: 2
1967 x 1 (rabbit)

$100 box
1 buff no date
1 silver 1945S
40's 11
50's 13
canada 1

The second box for this week's sorting $100FV: Above average box

Nickels: 222 (for 11.1%)
1980s: 47
1970s: 132
1960s: 39
1950s: 3 (1955,58,59)
1940s: 1 (1946)

Worth mentionning:
2000P: 3
Steel: 1953
US 1964 BU nickel
1 Koruna Ceska Republik 2006

First 100$ this week:

$100FV: Average box

Nickels: 212 (for 10.6%)
1980s: 39
1970s: 130
1960s: 43

Worth mentionning:
2000P: 5
25 cents Trinidad
3 x 1$ Mexico

Last of 16 boxes. Skunk (for war nickels or buffaloes)

68Camaro wrote:Last of 16 boxes. Skunk (for war nickels or buffaloes)

That is a long dry spell. Is it your worst ?

Second 100$ this week:

$100FV: Below Average box

Nickels: 180 (for 9%)
1980s: 31
1970s: 116
1960s: 31
1950s: 1 (1956)
1940s: 1 (1940)

Worth mentionning:
2000P: 3
1957 US Nickel

This week fistr box 100FV: Poor box

Nickels: 81(for 4%)
1980s: 11
1970s: 55
1960s: 15

Worst box ever.