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What do you do? I think I've covered all the bases with the 5 options...

I search them then keep them all. I'm real small time in nickels though, only a couple of rolls a week.

I do one or two bags a week so that equal 2-4 hundred a week to much to hoard for now

I keep a small percentage

I search and keep pre60's....

reddirtcoins wrote:I search and keep pre60's....

Same here

I buy and stack, but don't really have any intention of sorting through them...seems like too few goodies to find to make it worthwhile.

You forgot puting them on railway tracks to become pancakes as an option.

I search too many nickles to keep them all. I do however keep $1000 FV on hand. Why not. As I search for Buffs and Wars, I will pull any "Pre-60" that I see and I save them. As the pre-60's build up, I put them in place of the regular bricks that I keep on hand. Eventually, I will have 10 bricks of pre-60's. I just think it is cooler to keep the older ones. I just kinda set my limit on regular CuNi at $1000 so that I can use the other funds for copper, silver, .999 ni, lead, and so forth.

I only stack a few bank rolls per week, cwr I search and toss in a bucket no intentions of returning any of them.

plus1hdcp wrote:

reddirtcoins wrote:I search and keep pre60's....

Same here

Ditto. Apart from the silver and buffalos, I'm going for a roll for every year and mintmark. any overflow above that goes into a pile and once I get $50-100 I'll see if I can sell it for a little over face and turn that money into silver.

I stack and keep ALL nickels

I sort and save all pre-60 nickels, 2000-P, and 2009s. While i'm at it i also set aside all 1960 - 1964 for my hoard, since i see alot of those.

maoguinn wrote:I sort and save all pre-60 nickels, 2000-P, and 2009s. While i'm at it i also set aside all 1960 - 1964 for my hoard, since i see alot of those.

2000-P? I've never heard of anyone doing that. Why?

NHsorter wrote:I search too many nickles to keep them all. I do however keep $1000 FV on hand. Why not. As I search for Buffs and Wars, I will pull any "Pre-60" that I see and I save them. As the pre-60's build up, I put them in place of the regular bricks that I keep on hand. Eventually, I will have 10 bricks of pre-60's. I just think it is cooler to keep the older ones. I just kinda set my limit on regular CuNi at $1000 so that I can use the other funds for copper, silver, .999 ni, lead, and so forth.

That is pretty much exactly as I do... except... I limit it, for the time being, to $500. stacked of older to keep, and the other $500. on hand to sort as soon as I can. Then return the newest and non numi of those so I can re purchase more to sort as time permits. I hope to be able to eventually keep $1000. stacked to keep, and $500. on hand to sort, but can't for now due to space limitations.

creshka46 wrote:

maoguinn wrote:I sort and save all pre-60 nickels, 2000-P, and 2009s. While i'm at it i also set aside all 1960 - 1964 for my hoard, since i see alot of those.

2000-P? I've never heard of anyone doing that. Why?

2000-p has a lower mintage than even the 2009s, which is very low for a nickel.

2000-p 31,200,000
2009-p 39,840,000
2009-d 46,800,000

My sources say 2000p was a mintage of 846 million. Curious - where did you get your figure?

uthminsta wrote:My sources say 2000p was a mintage of 846 million. Curious - where did you get your figure?

I go by this site. Tell me if you think it's a reliable source.
http://www.coincommunity.com/

maoguinn wrote:

uthminsta wrote:My sources say 2000p was a mintage of 846 million. Curious - where did you get your figure?

I go by this site. Tell me if you think it's a reliable source.
http://www.coincommunity.com/

I checked out some other websites, and it looks like 846 million is correct. Thank you uthminsta for pointing that out.

I used to search and return, but I don't have time anymore. I now only stack the bricks.


I barely have time to pick cents and halves at this point.

When I started with nickels I would sort down by decades, but lately I've just been stacking. I've found that for the most part I have a ton of 200x, 199x, 198x namely two Brink's boxes of each decade. Anything prior to that is just not a lot of.

I dont know why u whould want to just buy and stack new nickels
U do realise there not made of nickel anymore right? Scrap wise the worthless so ur average nickel is always gonna be 5c

Prince By-Tor wrote:I dont know why u whould want to just buy and stack new nickels
U do realise there not made of nickel anymore right? Scrap wise the worthless so ur average nickel is always gonna be 5c

Are you Canadian?

maoguinn wrote:

creshka46 wrote:

maoguinn wrote:I sort and save all pre-60 nickels, 2000-P, and 2009s. While i'm at it i also set aside all 1960 - 1964 for my hoard, since i see alot of those.

2000-P? I've never heard of anyone doing that. Why?

2000-p has a lower mintage than even the 2009s, which is very low for a nickel.

2000-p 31,200,000
2009-p 39,840,000
2009-d 46,800,000

I haven't found any 2009's yet as of today. I have run across a 2000 though. I will keep that in mind when I sort my next box.

I search and put the needed coins in my album and then stack the rest.