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hidden treasure

PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 2:00 am
by wheeler_dealer
Blew the dust off a box of nickels today and sorted them for a change of pace. Results were three war nickels, several pre sixties and a 1939. Pleasantly surprised with this. Wondering if current boxes are this productive.

Re: hidden treasure

PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 5:27 am
by slvrbck
Havn't found a war nik in the past few $1,000 I've sorted and hoarded away.

Re: hidden treasure

PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 6:07 am
by reddirtcoins
I avg 1 war per box and normally pull a roll of pre 60's. I got skunked on 2 boxes the other night which was a real surprise. It doesn't happen often but, it does happen. At my pace I can get a free roll of eagles about every year if I was to flip the nickels. My 38-49's and 50-59 percentages are about the same which is weird and I guess I get a buffalo about every 10 boxes. I've only found about 10 V's in the last year.
I only hoard the pre 60's / war.

Re: hidden treasure

PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 6:38 am
by NHsorter
reddirtcoins wrote:I avg 1 war per box and normally pull a roll of pre 60's. I got skunked on 2 boxes the other night which was a real surprise. It doesn't happen often but, it does happen. At my pace I can get a free roll of eagles about every year if I was to flip the nickels. My 38-49's and 50-59 percentages are about the same which is weird and I guess I get a buffalo about every 10 boxes. I've only found about 10 V's in the last year.
I only hoard the pre 60's / war.


My stats are almost exactly the same as reddirtcoins. 1 per box is surprisingly consistent for me. Every now and the I'll have a skunk or a box with 2-3 but the average is still 1 per box for me.

Re: hidden treasure

PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:37 am
by galenrog
My average is 1 war and about 23 pre '60, with one buff about every 2 boxes. Did have some truly wonderful boxes some time back with over 400 buffs each, but that was short lived and only in a single order from one bank. nothing like that since.

Re: hidden treasure

PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 9:20 pm
by Franco American
I sort a box per week. The last 3 weeks each box has averaged 2 war nickels per box. Prior to that, it was averaging 1 but did have 2 skunk boxes as well. I have fond 4 buffalo nickels so far thsi year.

Re: hidden treasure

PostPosted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 8:54 pm
by wheeler_dealer
Thanks for feedback. Pulled another box out and sorted to try my luck again. Scored three more war and two Buffalo. These are my first finds in wild. Hope to start a herd. This was also an old box I stored away a while back.