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plus1hdcp wrote:Great post, it seems we are on the same page as I too save pre 60 nickels. I haven't kept the same statistics you have but imagine my results are similar. Keep up the sorting and thanks for sharing.

mtalbot_ca wrote:

plus1hdcp wrote:Great post, it seems we are on the same page as I too save pre 60 nickels. I haven't kept the same statistics you have but imagine my results are similar. Keep up the sorting and thanks for sharing.

+1, except I do the same in Canada.

SilverDragon72 wrote:I have found about 10 war nickels after searching probably 2k worth during the last year, plus 4 2009-D.

1938s? Hmm....I believe that I have one or two of those!

scyther wrote:

SilverDragon72 wrote:I have found about 10 war nickels after searching probably 2k worth during the last year, plus 4 2009-D.

1938s? Hmm....I believe that I have one or two of those!

Do you save all those?

I've found about 25 war nickels in $2.9k searched. I've found 3 38D, which is surprising considering that there are coins with higher mintage that I've only found 1 (or 0) of...

scyther wrote:I recently finished searching my 25th box of nickels, which means I have searched 50,000 nickels. I've been saving all of the pre-1960s and keeping them separately in a bag to go through later. Since I reached 50,000 and the bag was getting close to full, I thought it would be a good time to look through them and put them in my Dansco album (I had also recently finished filling in everything there through 2012 other than the 2009 P, which I only have one of and it's in bad condition so I don't want to use it). Anyway, here is a list of all the pre-1960 nickels I found after searching 50,000 nickels:

(While looking through the 50s nickels, I found an additional 30 nickels, so these may have been counted twice, but I don't think so. I may have made some minor counting errors somewhere, but I think this is very close to accurate):

1938- 2
1938D- 2
1939- 24
1940- 45
1940D- 6
1940S- 5
1941- 39
1941D- 11
1941S- 13
1942- 13
1942P- 1
1942D- 2
1943P- 9
1943S- 4
1944P- 5
1945P- 3
1945S- 1
1946- 41
1946D- 11
1946S- 4
1947- 9
1947D- 12
1947S- 6
1948- 25
1948D- 11
1948S- 2
1949- 10
1949D- 3
1949S- 1
1950- 4
1951- 7
1951D- 3
1952- 19
1952D- 10
1952S- 5
1953- 7
1953D- 14
1953S- 6
1954- 11
1954D- 41
1954S- 7
1955- 1
1955D- 24
1956- 13
1956D- 27
1957- 8
1957D- 45
1958- 6
1958D- 68
1959- 9
1959D- 52

Now the only ones I don't have are 38S, 39D, 39S, 42S, 43D,44D, 44S, 45D, 50D, and 51S.

mtalbot_ca wrote:Good work.

Usually the cleaning marks are on both side. Do you have a picture?

Cheers,

scyther wrote:Does anyone think they're a significant risk of this being counterfeit? Despite being very hard to find in circulation, it's not a very valuable coin... it's probably safe to assume it's real, right?

An unofficial variety of the wartime coin dated 1944 was made in 1954 when counterfeit nickels were produced by Francis LeRoy Henning of Erial, New Jersey. He had previously been arrested for counterfeiting $5 bills.

The 1944 nickels were quickly spotted since Henning neglected to add the large mintmark of the Philidelphia mint (P). He also made counterfeit nickels dated 1939, 1946, 1947 and 1953.

It is estimated that more than 100,000 of Henning's nickels reached circulation. Henning dumped another 200,000 nickels in Copper Creek, New Jersey, of which only 14,000 were recovered. Another 200,000 are thought to have been dumped in the Schuylkill River.

When caught, Henning was sentenced to 3 years in jail, and had to pay a $5,000 fine.

68Camaro wrote:I'm now filling my 4th book and could use the 38S, though not sure it's worth the fuss to ship for just one. But that means someone else is also looking for it. They've got some value so worth setting aside.