Nickel Tracking V

[shinnosuke]

２００９D...I finally sold all mine to a great guy on RealCent.

[Silver4face]

２００９D...I finally sold all mine to a great guy on RealCent.

If I may ask, how many of them did you have? Also, did you previously roll search or did you simply save them from pocket change?

[shinnosuke]

２００９D...I finally sold all mine to a great guy on RealCent.

If I may ask, how many of them did you have? Also, did you previously roll search or did you simply save them from pocket change?

Several hundred. Start here: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=44253&p=335140#p335140

[TXSTARFIRE]

What are the 2009s going for nowadays?

[shinnosuke]

What are the 2009s going for nowadays?

I use the EBay “Sold” price as a guide. Just under $3 each seems common now.

[cwgii]

Lol I got one roll that had 49 coins. It was barely contained in the wrapper.

[mtalbot_ca]

Box 275 - Test box - Canada

Found : 166 nickels (.999) or 8.3%

1980s: 41
1970s: 96
1960s: 19 of which 5 x 12-sided. (60x2, 61x2 and 62x1)
1950s: 1 (55)

Of note:
65 x U.S. nickels (of which 1x1950)
1 peso mexico
Interestingly I counted 153 (cu-ni) coin (1982-1999). The best shaped 1982 ever.
4x2000P
1x1991
1x1951 chrome-nickel

[Silver4face]

A small batch of nickels produced surprisingly good results:

$20 face. (10 CWR'S)

21 pre 1960 in only ten rolls!!!!
One WAR nickel included in the above

Also: a dime and a 2012 Canadian nickel

[mtalbot_ca]

Box 276 - Test box - Canada

Found : 129 nickels (.999) or 6,4%

1980s: 20
1970s: 85
1960s: 23 of which 2 x 12-sided. (61x2)
1950s: 1 (57)

Of note:
35 x U.S. nickels
4 x 10 cents Canada
2 x 1 cent USA
1 x 1 cent Canada

Interestingly I counted 131 (cu-ni) coin (1982-1999). The best shaped 1982 ever.

[cwgii]

Just looked at $100.. it was mostly a dump as whole rolls were 22,23. Then there were rolls all from 70,80,90, and post 2005. Strange, even for a OCD type like me.

Strange

[mtalbot_ca]

Box 277 - Test box - Canada

Found : 94 nickels (.999) or 4,7%

1980s: 13
1970s: 55
1960s: 24 of which 7 x 12-sided. (60x3, 61x2, 62x3)
1950s: 1 (57)
1940s: 1 47 ML

Of note:
14 x U.S. nickels (of which a 47P
1 x 5 Colónes Costa Rica
1 x 1945 chrome-steel Victory nickel
1 x 1990 bare belly variety
1 x 2000P

Interestingly I counted 162 (cu-ni) coin (1982-1999).

[Silver4face]

Big nickel sort this week. $300 face, mostly CWRs.

168 pre 1960 including 3 WAR nickels
2 no date buffalos and a 1938
Jefferson.

Included in the above numbers were two solid rolls of pure pre 1960, mostly 1940 &1941. And they were almost all S mints.

Also, 15 Canadian nickels including two .999

[TXSTARFIRE]

Part of that must have been someones dump, sweet score!

[cwgii]

$100 ..15 keepers.

[Silver4face]

Opened 40 rolls of nickels today ($80 face) mostly CWR'S

15 pre 1960 nothing exciting

Six Canadian nickels, one of them a .999

[mtalbot_ca]

Box 278 - Test box - Canada

Found : 89 nickels (.999) or 4,6%

1980s: 26
1970s: 63

Of note: NOTHING

Interestingly I counted 228 (cu-ni) coin (1982-1999).

[68Camaro]

Box 278 - Test box - Canada

Found : 89 nickels (.999) or 4,6%

1980s: 26
1970s: 63

Of note: NOTHING

Interestingly I counted 228 (cu-ni) coin (1982-1999).

If you could sell them at melt, given your time and gas money, at current prices what yield would you need to make this break even?

[mtalbot_ca]

If you could sell them at melt, given your time and gas money, at current prices what yield would you need to make this break even?

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Good question. I did some in-debt calculation back in the good old days (2010-2013), and based on real sales and shipping/transaction cost plus gas, I was making 4$/hour. Key driver was the % of .999 nickels and to a lesser extent the presence of key varieties.

The current cost of acquisition of a box is quite low, about 2,00$. So to break even, I would need per box, with melt at 10$/lbs (ca), to find 40 nickels (10 cents each, so 5 cents for the coin and 5 cents profit).

Cheers!

[Silver4face]

$100 face mostly CWR'S.

30 Pre 1960 including a 1950 and a 1951 S. Both very low mintage.

9 Canadian nickels including 5 .999