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Post your nickel sorting/hoarding activity here. Canadians are generally looking for pure Ni nickels (1981 and older, some exceptions) and Americans are generally looking for silver war nickels and those elusive pure Ni Canadians.

$100 Brinks Box

Ag skunk
1 1929D Buffalo
24 pre-1960 (best date '49S)

Report on nickels searched:

$50.00 -- 25 CWRs

V nickel - none
Buffalo - none
War Nickel - none
Proofs - none
Canadian pre-1982 - none
2009 - none
Other found - none

Kept for nickel album - none


Other stats: One roll shorted five cents, One roll shorted 20 cents, One roll shorted 25 cents; One roll over five cents


Overage/shortage total: Shorted 45 cents

Enjoy your coin searches, everyone.

For those of you that enjoy unusual gee-whiz facts, especially involving numbers, the ONLY exciting fact about this sort was that On 09/05/10 I sorted my roll number 905 of nickels sorted.

$100 Brinks box Nickels

Ag skunk
3 Buffalo (2 dateless, 1924D)
16 pre-1960

1,000 9-1--15
38-42==55
war==9
46-49==31
50-55==52, of note 51s, 51d
56-59==78
can==8 , two ni

5 buffs,
odds, 20003 equador, 1971 belgie, dime

Report on nickels searched:

$50.00 -- 25 CWRs

V nickel - none
Buffalo - none
War Nickel - none
Proofs - none
Canadian pre-1982 - one -- 1/1980
2009 - none
Other found - none

Kept for nickel album - none


Other stats: One roll over 5 cents


Overage/shortage total: Over 5 cents

Enjoy your coin searches, everyone.

$16 NFS rolls Nickels
Ag skunk
2 pre 1960

3 Brinks Boxes ($300) Nickels
Box #1
3 Ag WarTime
Foreign: 1987 Singapore 20 cent, 1971 Switzerland 20 Rappen
23 pre 1960 ('39, '50)

Box #2
Ag skunk
Foreign: 1986 Singapore 20 cent
2 Dateless Buffalo
17 pre 1960

Box #3
1 Ag WarTime
1 Buffalo 1927S
22 pre-1960 ('38S in AU )

$100 CWRs Nickels
1 Ag WarTime
Foreign: 1995 Great Britain 20P
1 Ni Canadian (Seems I only find the Ni Canadians in CWRs - must be because they're magnetic and are probably kicked out by Brinks???.
21 pre-1960

Hi Everyone,
I'm new to this and a lot of the abbreviations I don't know such as ag. frn. cwr ect. Are they posted somewhere ?
Thank You
Joe

1,0000 9--15--28
38-42==46
war==10
46-49==30
50-55==44
56-59==66
cdn==7, one ni
no buffs
odds... one $ mex 2001, dime, penny.

appjoe wrote:Hi Everyone,
I'm new to this and a lot of the abbreviations I don't know such as ag. frn. cwr ect. Are they posted somewhere ?
Thank You
Joe

Ag - capital A and lower case g is the symbol for Silver from the periodic table of elements.
FRN = Federal Reserve Note - the Fiat currency used in the US.
CWR = Customer Wrapped Rolls
Ni - Capital N and lower case i is the symbol for Nickel from the period table of elements.
Cu - Capital C and lower case u is the symbol for Copper from the periodic table of elements.
WT = WarTime - refers to the Silver WarTime Nickels produced fron 1942-45...identified with a large mintmark (P, D or S) above the "Monticello" on the reverse of the coin.
CU = capital C and capital U stands for Credit Union.

Thank You
Now that I see it I feel stupid. I got my 1st $100 box of nickels today I hope to be able to go through it tonight. I also picked up a $25 box of pennies and I ordered a $500 box of halves the bank said it would be in this Friday.
Thanks again

Report on nickels searched:

$50.00 -- 25 CWRs

V nickel - none
Buffalo - none
War Nickel - none
Proofs - none
Canadian pre-1982 - one -- 1/1979
2009 - none
Other found - three -- 1/2007 US Penny,
1/2010P US Nickel (MY FIRST 2010 Nickel),
1/1959D in a strong AU+ condition (this wasn't an upgrade for my album but in that condition I had to keep it)

Kept for nickel album - none


Other stats: One roll over 10 cents


Overage/shortage total: Over 10 cents

Enjoy your coin searches, everyone.

My 1st nickel box
$100 Brinks box

V nickel - none
Buffalo - none
War Nickel - 2- 1943s, 1945s
total pre 1959 17 oldest 1939
Proofs - none
Canadian 3 post 1982
2009 - none
other 1- 1986 Bermuda, 1- 1998 Swiss 20 Rappen

It was a lot of fun and relaxing

2 Brinks boxes ($200)

Box #1
1 Ag WarTime
1 Buffalo 1926
17 pre-1960

Box #2
Ag skunk
18 pre-1960

$40 cwr nickels

V nickels - Skunk
Buffalo - skunk
war nickels - skunk
pre 1960 - 20
proof - skunk
canadian - 2 1986 , 1999

$100.00 Box of customer wrapped rolls from my local credit union finished sorting late last night:
I was hoping to bag me some Buffalos, but none to be found. Just the new Jeff/buffalos and not too many of them.
4 pennies at least one was copper!
2 Silver War nickels
2 Canadian .999 Ni
1 1939 Jeff
6 1940's non-war
6 1950's
I have not searched nickels in a long time but that box was pretty quick and fun. I will be hitting up the Credit Union again soon.

A cousin I had not seen for over 2 years visited me from out-of-state and knew I sorted coins and he surprised me by bringing his 10 year accumulation of coins for me to search.
Container included:

$ 13 in Nickels
1 Ag WarTime
3 pre-1960

$30 in nicks:

no wars
1 -1927 Buff
13 pre 1959

appjoe wrote:Thank You
Now that I see it I feel stupid. I got my 1st $100 box of nickels today I hope to be able to go through it tonight. I also picked up a $25 box of pennies and I ordered a $500 box of halves the bank said it would be in this Friday.
Thanks again

I'm a rookie too, so don't feel stupid. I didn't know some of the abbreviations. The only stupid question is the one not asked.

I got 1 CWR today; $2 in nickles. 25 pre-1960; the other 15 were 1960-63. One dateless buffalo, but no silver, and nothing older than 1940. Great roll, but not much to show for it. I went back into the bank and asked the teller if she had ANY more of ANY denomination that might have come in with those. I will find out tomorrow.

2 Boxes (Brinks) Nickels

Box #1
Ag skunk
19 pre-1960

Box #2 Personal Record Box
4 Ag WarTime - Ties my previous high
11 Buffalo (2 Dateless, '20, '26, '29, '29D, 2-'35, '35D, '36, '37) My best Buffalo box yet
35 pre-1960 - New high for me

adagirl wrote:

appjoe wrote:Thank You
Now that I see it I feel stupid. I got my 1st $100 box of nickels today I hope to be able to go through it tonight. I also picked up a $25 box of pennies and I ordered a $500 box of halves the bank said it would be in this Friday.
Thanks again

I'm a rookie too, so don't feel stupid. I didn't know some of the abbreviations. The only stupid question is the one not asked.

Thank you for the kind words adagirl

Two $100 boxes

4 Ag war nickels. Otherwise my first 1946 S in decent shape, and my first 2009 P a bit scratched up. About time.

$228 CWR Nickels
1 Silver WN
4 - 1939-P
1 Belgum 1 Frank - 1951

$100 Brinks box

V nickel - none
Buffalo - none
War Nickels - 3
total pre 1960- 34, oldest 1940
Proofs - none
Canadian 1 post 1982
2009 - 1 2009P
Foriegn 1- Bahamas 5 cent year 2000

The 3 War nickels I found in the 1st 8 rolls