What are the chances???

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What are the chances???

Postby OtusLotus » Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:08 pm

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
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Re: What are the chances???

Postby dakota1955 » Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:16 pm

I have found them all but the 50-d
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Re: What are the chances???

Postby TXTim » Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:39 pm

Good chance!
50-D & 39's are tough but not bad compared to tough pennies.
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Re: What are the chances???

Postby Roadrunner » Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:01 pm

I lucked out and found a 50-d after only about a year of searching.
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Re: What are the chances???

Postby OtusLotus » Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:40 am

well.. there is only 1 thing for me to do.. SORT SOME MRE NICKELS!
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Re: What are the chances???

Postby rickygee » Fri Apr 22, 2011 7:56 pm

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???
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Re: What are the chances???

Postby PreservingThePast » Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:12 am

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. :geek:
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Re: What are the chances???

Postby OldPeddler » Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:42 am

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.
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Re: What are the chances???

Postby cwgii » Mon May 09, 2011 5:37 am

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.
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Re: What are the chances???

Postby kestrelia » Wed May 18, 2011 2:20 pm

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).

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