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Tourney64 wrote:There was a guy named madeuce who went up to Canada years ago from the US and our forum and set up a large scale nickel operation and singlehandedly impacted the nickel percentages to extremely low numbers. He had a warehouse and several Brinks truck deliveries each week. He hired one guy, had a fork lift and had several large scale commercial sorters. He crated the nickel nickels up and shipped them to a company that needed nickel. He stopped operations when the price of nickel dropped and the percentages became too low for profitability. I still have some of the pictures from when he posted years ago.

Recyclersteve wrote: I've found five dealers who sell the Canadian nickels for between four and five U.S. Cents each. These were found in Washington state, California, and even Arizona. These should easily be available for those of you who live in places like Michigan and New England.

nero12345 wrote:Most of our nickel that we used to make our nickels came from Cuba and is another reason it could be "technically" illegal to ship to the US. I love the nickels especially now we lost our pennies.

Mercuryman wrote:

Tourney64 wrote:There was a guy named madeuce who went up to Canada years ago from the US and our forum and set up a large scale nickel operation and singlehandedly impacted the nickel percentages to extremely low numbers. He had a warehouse and several Brinks truck deliveries each week. He hired one guy, had a fork lift and had several large scale commercial sorters. He crated the nickel nickels up and shipped them to a company that needed nickel. He stopped operations when the price of nickel dropped and the percentages became too low for profitability. I still have some of the pictures from when he posted years ago.

Are there any links to his old post's? I would love to see them.

ZenOps wrote:1.8 billion five cent pure nickels = 9,000 tons. ARP has been removing more than 1,200 tons per year nickel (five cent, dimes, quarters) since 2003.

If they concentrated solely on five cent nickels, the pure nickel five cent could technically be gone by now.

Amount of silver in circulation coins in the US in 1964? 60,000 tons.

BTW: From my weak observation, they are concentrating on removing and replacing the quarters. It is near impossible to find a pre-1999 quarter, the percentages are even lower than finding a pre-82 nickel.

Also lesser known, all members of the euro were required to turn in their coinage and bills. Cupronickels and a rare few pure nickel coins would have survived that. Although many were made, you would be hard pressed to ever find a french 2 franc or nederlands coin on north american soil.

68Camaro wrote:

ZenOps wrote:1.8 billion five cent pure nickels = 9,000 tons. ARP has been removing more than 1,200 tons per year nickel (five cent, dimes, quarters) since 2003.

If they concentrated solely on five cent nickels, the pure nickel five cent could technically be gone by now.

Amount of silver in circulation coins in the US in 1964? 60,000 tons.

BTW: From my weak observation, they are concentrating on removing and replacing the quarters. It is near impossible to find a pre-1999 quarter, the percentages are even lower than finding a pre-82 nickel.

Also lesser known, all members of the euro were required to turn in their coinage and bills. Cupronickels and a rare few pure nickel coins would have survived that. Although many were made, you would be hard pressed to ever find a french 2 franc or nederlands coin on north american soil.

I stand corrected; my mental math was off by a factor of 100.

1,800,000,000 nickels =
18,000,000 pounds =
9,000 tons = 7.5 years at 1200 tons/year

mtalbot is reporting still finding 5-7-ish% .999 nickels - actually not bad and I would be sorting myself if I was in Canada until it got down below ~3%...

Recyclersteve wrote:I'm just curious- why do you think that Canadian nickels get so little attention in the U.S.? Do people just not realize that the pre '82 nickels with some exceptions are worth about 9 cents each? I've found five dealers who sell the Canadian nickels for between four and five U.S. Cents each. These were found in Washington state, California, and even Arizona. These should easily be available for those of you who live in places like Michigan and New England. I like that the Canadian nickels are often 99 percent nickel as opposed to 25 percent for U.S. Nickels. The benefit here is that you can store more wealth in a much smaller space.

I will give runner-up status to French 1/2, 1, and 2 franc coins which can easily be found in many junk foreign boxes.

This reminds me a bit like how easy it was to find silver half dollars 5-7 years ago.

Your thoughts?

SilverDragon72 wrote:The Canadian Nickels get their due attention....from ME! I pick them up as often as I'm able to, especially since I can get them at FV.

Whatever my LCS has that particular day.....I never know what I'll find every time I go in there!

ZenOps wrote:1.8 billion five cent pure nickels = 9,000 tons. ARP has been removing more than 1,200 tons per year nickel (five cent, dimes, quarters) since 2003.

If they concentrated solely on five cent nickels, the pure nickel five cent could technically be gone by now.

Amount of silver in circulation coins in the US in 1964? 60,000 tons.

BTW: From my weak observation, they are concentrating on removing and replacing the quarters. It is near impossible to find a pre-1999 quarter, the percentages are even lower than finding a pre-82 nickel.

Also lesser known, all members of the euro were required to turn in their coinage and bills. Cupronickels and a rare few pure nickel coins would have survived that. Although many were made, you would be hard pressed to ever find a french 2 franc or nederlands coin on north american soil.

Recyclersteve wrote:

ZenOps wrote:1.8 billion five cent pure nickels = 9,000 tons. ARP has been removing more than 1,200 tons per year nickel (five cent, dimes, quarters) since 2003.

If they concentrated solely on five cent nickels, the pure nickel five cent could technically be gone by now.

Amount of silver in circulation coins in the US in 1964? 60,000 tons.

BTW: From my weak observation, they are concentrating on removing and replacing the quarters. It is near impossible to find a pre-1999 quarter, the percentages are even lower than finding a pre-82 nickel.

Also lesser known, all members of the euro were required to turn in their coinage and bills. Cupronickels and a rare few pure nickel coins would have survived that. Although many were made, you would be hard pressed to ever find a french 2 franc or nederlands coin on north american soil.

I found about 8-10 French 2 francs, 175 or so 1 francs, and about 20-30 Dutch guilders just yesterday. Also 3 or so Netherlands Antilles coins. I did have to spend a couple hours of back braking time going through a mostly full 5 gallon painters bucket, but the coins were there.