by scyther » Sun Nov 24, 2013 4:27 am
Today, in the box that will bring me up to 150,000 nickels, I found the first new date in 2 months... the 1939-S! Like the 51-S before it, I can't believe it took this long. I was considering stopping at 150,000, but I think I'll go to the end of the year. The last 2 times I found anything new, I found another new one either the same week or the next week. Hopefully that happens again. It would be really great to get the 44-S. Extrapolating from the total number of war nickels I've found so far, I should probably have found one already. But if I can't, It's no big deal. Not having a 39-s when I did have a 39-D, 38-S, and 38-D would have been really unsatisfying, but I can live with all but the key date and the 2 lowest-mintage war nickels. But, if I do finish it...
3 more to go!
267,500 pennies and 186,000 nickels searched. Hand sorter.
10/13/18