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One of my CU ladies called me and told me she could only get 1 box today and the rest of them next week, no problem. I just got done searching the box. Check this out...

- 40 Buffalo nickels. 70% of them have readable dates, a few are EF condition. 40 of them... in one box!
- 14 V nickels. All readable dates. G to F condition. I never found more than a few in all the boxes I've ever searched, now I hit the mother lode in just one box with all those Buffaloes in there too? - Wow.
-1 1938. Very nice, prob AU-50.
- 1 war nickel 1944P
- 1 2009D

Hard for me to believe I could find all these in just one box. I'm very happy, but totally dumbfounded. I have to check for the rarer dates now. I'll post them if I find any.

Clearly Thogey's widow in action - again.

68Camaro wrote:Clearly Thogey's widow in action - again.

Thogey died?

OH geez no he did not...it was a saying from years back about a "widow" turning in her dead husbands coin collection to the bank. Youi have just forgotten about it.

that was a dang fine box of nics you got!

With my big score last week. It makes you wonder if it has to be the economy. And folks trying to clean out a few coins in an attempt to help “”the coin shortages ”

Anyway super score.

68Camaro wrote:Clearly Thogey's widow in action - again.

She does get around, doesn't she?

cwgii wrote:With my big score last week. It makes you wonder if it has to be the economy. And folks trying to clean out a few coins in an attempt to help “”the coin shortages ”

Anyway super score.

I think we saw a bumper crop of coin dumps in 2008 after the GFC occurred. I was finding some real humdinger boxes back then. Relatedly, I can not imagine what silver was circulating still in the 1990's when spot was ~$4. Only the precious metal bugs would have taken notice.

Wow!! What a box!!

Cu Penny Hoarder wrote:One of my CU ladies called me and told me she could only get 1 box today and the rest of them next week, no problem. I just got done searching the box. Check this out...

- 40 Buffalo nickels. 70% of them have readable dates, a few are EF condition. 40 of them... in one box!
- 14 V nickels. All readable dates. G to F condition. I never found more than a few in all the boxes I've ever searched, now I hit the mother lode in just one box with all those Buffaloes in there too? - Wow.
-1 1938. Very nice, prob AU-50.
- 1 war nickel 1944P
- 1 2009D

Hard for me to believe I could find all these in just one box. I'm very happy, but totally dumbfounded. I have to check for the rarer dates now. I'll post them if I find any.

Holy [shucks]! What a great box! I have pulled only FOUR V nickels in 11 years - you hit 14 in one day!!!! I imagine you found good amounts of pre 1960 that obviously got overshadowed by the better stuff. Those are the kind of boxes that make you want to open stuff ALL THE TIME!

That's Pure Awesomeness!!!
I'm green with envy!

I did a $100. box last night & though I lucked out with finding 2 war nics, the rest of the box was very light on finds. There were only 4 others in the 40's & 5 in the 50's.
The boxes around here seem to be giving up less & less goodies.

Keep going back to that bank as often as you can!

Silver4face wrote:

Cu Penny Hoarder wrote:One of my CU ladies called me and told me she could only get 1 box today and the rest of them next week, no problem. I just got done searching the box. Check this out...

- 40 Buffalo nickels. 70% of them have readable dates, a few are EF condition. 40 of them... in one box!
- 14 V nickels. All readable dates. G to F condition. I never found more than a few in all the boxes I've ever searched, now I hit the mother lode in just one box with all those Buffaloes in there too? - Wow.
-1 1938. Very nice, prob AU-50.
- 1 war nickel 1944P
- 1 2009D

Hard for me to believe I could find all these in just one box. I'm very happy, but totally dumbfounded. I have to check for the rarer dates now. I'll post them if I find any.

Holy [shucks]! What a great box! I have pulled only FOUR V nickels in 11 years - you hit 14 in one day!!!! I imagine you found good amounts of pre 1960 that obviously got overshadowed by the better stuff. Those are the kind of boxes that make you want to open stuff ALL THE TIME!

Absolutely! Only about 12 pre-1960.

I took a pic of the V's and the better Buffalo's. Sorry about the flash, but it's dark here right now.

Wow, absolutly amazing box!

Nice find!

I opened 2 more boxes yesterday. 6 buffaloes and 42 pre-1960s. No V's or war nickels though.

3 more boxes coming next week.

I hope you guys are getting as many boxes as you can. IMO, these aren't going to be available for much longer.

Excellent point, but you guys should also be getting Penny rolls/boxes as well because BOTH copper and zinc are worth more than face. Also, one advantage for pennies is that they require less capital than nickels. But again, its good to have both.

Silver4face wrote:Excellent point, but you guys should also be getting Penny rolls/boxes as well because BOTH copper and zinc are worth more than face. Also, one advantage for pennies is that they require less capital than nickels. But again, its good to have both.

I've kept all my zincs since 2020. Yes, less capital required per box ($25 vs $100), but the cost to acquire all boxes are the same price; Pennies are $7, and nickels are $7. Makes more cents to stick with nickels, I get much more bang for my buck.

The dwindling amount of coppers is why some of us stopped doing pennies. Got some a few weeks ago and the average Cu amount was only about 5-10%, there were also a few skunk boxes. These days, are 100% zinc boxes still considered "skunk" boxes?

WOW!!! What a box!!! Congrats!!

Cu Penny Hoarder wrote:

Silver4face wrote:Excellent point, but you guys should also be getting Penny rolls/boxes as well because BOTH copper and zinc are worth more than face. Also, one advantage for pennies is that they require less capital than nickels. But again, its good to have both.

I've kept all my zincs since 2020. Yes, less capital required per box ($25 vs $100), but the cost to acquire all boxes are the same price; Pennies are $7, and nickels are $7. Makes more cents to stick with nickels, I get much more bang for my buck.

The dwindling amount of coppers is why some of us stopped doing pennies. Got some a few weeks ago and the average Cu amount was only about 5-10%, there were also a few skunk boxes. These days, are 100% zinc boxes still considered "skunk" boxes?

If you are spending the time to sort the 50 rolls, then they ARE skunk boxes. However, if you stash them away as a future investment, then it would not really be considered a skunk box because you didn't spend any time getting skunked.
On a similar note, I bought 9 rolls of nickels a month ago but I didn't open them because I could tell they were pure 2021. I stashed them away. I will not get skunked by them because I will NEVER sort them!!!!! But maybe I can sell/melt them someday (soon?)

Silver4face wrote:If you are spending the time to sort the 50 rolls, then they ARE skunk boxes. However, if you stash them away as a future investment, then it would not really be considered a skunk box because you didn't spend any time getting skunked.
On a similar note, I bought 9 rolls of nickels a month ago but I didn't open them because I could tell they were pure 2021. I stashed them away. I will not get skunked by them because I will NEVER sort them!!!!! But maybe I can sell/melt them someday (soon?)

What I meant is zincs are now at/over the face value so ppl may not consider them skunk boxes anymore. BTW, I do the same thing... if the rolls have brand new zinc enders, I usually do not open it. I have many unopened boxes because I can see the rolls through the holes in the top (Loomis?) of the box that they're all new zinc rolls. I also have zinc boxes from 2009-2015 that I never opened.

An unopened box of 2009 cents might be pretty valuable!