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What are the chances???
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Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:08 pmby OtusLotus
I received a Whitman folder for the holidays, and have been buying boxes/rolls of nickels to find the ones that I am missing...
So what do you think the odds are that I find the final 6 nickels..
1938D, 1938S, 1939D, 1939S, 1950D, 1953S
Re: What are the chances???
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Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:16 pmby dakota1955
I have found them all but the 50-d
Re: What are the chances???
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Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:39 pmby TXTim
Good chance!
50-D & 39's are tough but not bad compared to tough pennies.
Good luck!
Re: What are the chances???
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Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:01 pmby Roadrunner
I lucked out and found a 50-d after only about a year of searching.
Re: What are the chances???
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Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:40 amby OtusLotus
well.. there is only 1 thing for me to do.. SORT SOME MRE NICKELS!
Re: What are the chances???
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Fri Apr 22, 2011 7:56 pmby rickygee
OtusLotus wrote:well.. there is only 1 thing for me to do.. SORT SOME MRE NICKELS!
I've heard it said: "You can't eat your gold and silver." But MRE nickels? How's the military feeding the troops with these???
Re: What are the chances???
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Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:12 amby PreservingThePast
OtusLotus wrote:I received a Whitman folder for the holidays, and have been buying boxes/rolls of nickels to find the ones that I am missing...
So what do you think the odds are that I find the final 6 nickels..
1938D, 1938S, 1939D, 1939S, 1950D, 1953S
I would say it is quite good. Keep searching. My nickel album of 1938 - 1964 is only lacking the 1944S nickel. All others were placed in their respective spots at face value.
Enjoy your coin searches, everyone.
Re: What are the chances???
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Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:42 amby OldPeddler
I filled mine about 30 years ago. I am now old and grey. I happend on them the other day and thought that no one in the family does coin colecting. I have so many coins. Talked it over with my spouse and she said I should start selling them that I could enjoy somthing else more than the old coins more. Got me to thinking I have enough that if I sold them I could get me an electric start motor for my boat.
What a thought.
Re: What are the chances???
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Mon May 09, 2011 5:37 amby cwgii
53s should take you a couple weeks , max.
last year i did 31k in nickels. and got 2 , 1950d. several of each of the others.
Re: What are the chances???
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Wed May 18, 2011 2:20 pmby kestrelia
It can definitely be done, but how long it'll take depends on luck, how much you search and where you live. I live in the northeast and it took me about 2 1/2 years and 608,850 nickels. The last one I found was the 1943D (second to last was 1938D, found 2 or 3 1950D's in that time period).
Good luck!