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I'm a small time hand sorter and I usually pick up around $10 in nickels and $5-10 in pennies every week. I have had some great luck the last few weeks and I thought I'd brag a little. For 3 weeks straight, I managed 1 war nickel out of $10. 3 war nickels out of $30 total is pretty good, I think. This week, I got no silver, but I did get a full date Buffalo, which was cool. And, the even better score: in my $5 of pennies, I got not one but two Indian heads. A slightly rough looking 1900 and a nice looking 1896. It must have been a freak thing, because they were in different rolls and the rolls weren't anything great - a couple wheats and an average amount of copper. Anyway, maybe I should have bought a powerball ticket a few weeks ago.

Congrats! Hand sorting takes a great deal of patience and dedication...you deserve your finds!

Congrats on the finds....those old timer coins must band together when they meet up in the wild

Are you saving any pre-60 nickles also?

Congrats! Over the past few weeks Ihave snagged 2 Mercs in rolls of dimes, a 40% Kennedy from a teller, and a 1909 Lincoln in a reject tray...

dakota1955 wrote:Are you saving any pre-60 nickles also?

I save all my nickels, but I do separate everything pre 64.

Nice finds especially those wild injuns!

Very nice finds, makes the hand sorting worthwhile with finds like this.

Sorted a box of pennies tonight. The theme of the 2012 penny is in this latest batch. I still have 2 more boxes left to sort. Interestingly enough, although more than 50 percent of the pennies are 2012, I'm still finding a decent amount of coppers. I found 5 wheats and 5 Canadians in this box. I've nearly filled up one tube full of wheat pennies so far