1938 Jefferson Nickle And Two Silver War Nickles Found From Coin Roll Hunting

 To begin this post I'm going to show you the three biggest finds I found from coin roll hunting  $156 dollars worth of nickles. These bank rolls were a combination of machine rolls and customer returned change.

The biggest find was a 1938 Jefferson nickle. When I first saw this I thought it was an error coin because I have always thought the 1939 was the transitional date. I didn't know there was any such thing as a 1938 Jefferson nickle. 

When I went online to do some research I got very excited when I saw the price range in values from $6 to $1800. I knew that based on the condition I would probably be looking at the lower range but I figured maybe I'd be looking at a twenty dollar coin or something like that. The fact that under 20 million of these were minted further convinced me that I had something very rare.

Then I went to check ebay and my hopes were crushed. There are many examples that look better than mine going for two or three dollars.  I guess I should feel lucky just finding one of these but I sure wish it was in a little better condition. Here is a pic of the 1938

The next best find after this was two silver war nickles dated 1942-S and 1943-S. The 42 is fairly dinged up but finding two silvers in less than $200 worth of nickles is pretty sweet.

Before I go any further, here is proof that I went through $178 worth of nickles. As you can see some are machine rolled and some are customer returns.

I also have to make note of the 1939 Jefferson nickle I found. This is an exceptionally good looking coin considering what they usually look like when they come out of circulation. I'm not saying it looks fantastic, just better than normal.

Then we have the 1940s nonsilver Jefferson nickles. I'm not going to do detailed images of these. Just a birdseye view of the nineteen nickles I found in this decade group.

I decided not to post the 1950s I found today. I'm starting to think I should start putting everything after 1950 back into circulation. There are just too many of them floating around. I don't know if they will ever really increase in value.

At the end of the day this was not a bad hunt. I'm slowly but surely increasing my collection of Jefferson silver war nickles. 

Three More Silver War Nickles I Found This Week

I can't believe I went through only forty dollars worth on nickles and I found three silver war nickles. That's an incredibly high ratio from what I would normally expect from coin roll hunting. I guess all my hard work is starting to pay off. The dates on these are 1942, 1943 and 1945 and all of them are from the Philadelphia mint. I'm really happy to have been ab;e to pick up three of these out of such a small number of coins and will be adding them to my silver stack. I've been doing pretty well with all the silver coins I've been hunting lately. I also have a ton of wheat pennies I found from several boxes I've been going through. I will have to get a post together to show off what I've found. I expect to be able to have that up this week so stay tuned.

A 1944 Silver War Nickle And Two 1939 Nickles I Found Coin Roll Hunting

I went through about fifty dollars in nickles over the last two days but I only found one piece of silver. I was a 1944 silver war nickles. I've also been finding a lot of 1939 Jefferson nickles which is a key date since it was the first year they minted this coin. Even in circulate condition these can sometimes fetch up to a dollar on eBay and other auction sites. I plan on holding onto these until I have a ton of them I can sell and use the money to buy more gold coins or support some of my giveaway projects. Check out the images I scanned of these three coins below. I also picked up two more boxes of pennies and I'll be posting my new finds from them in a couple of days so be on the watch for my new posts.

A Buffalo Nickle I Found Today And An Update For This Blog

I've been going through some rolls of nickles lately. I haven't had the time to go through a full box but I did pull out this worn buffalo nickle today. I was going to wait and do a post the next time I find some silver but I decided to go ahead and do a blog post today because I also want to update you guys about what is going on with this blog and the giveaway project I am about to start working on. First of all lets take a look at this old coin. This particular buffalo nickle is really worn down. I couldn't get a mint date off the face of it even after I blew it up with my scanner. This doesn't make it worthless though, even dateless coins like this are worth more than their face value so I'll be keeping this to auction off later once I get enough them to put a roll together. Even though it doesn't have a date I can still read the lettering on the coin so it's not really all that bad. I think the back actually looks pretty good compared to the front of this coin. I also didn't find a mint mark on this coin even though the backside text looked pretty good so I assume it never had one.

I also wanted to give you guys a blog update on what I'm working on. I have been busy trying to build up this blog by getting linkbacks from other websites and blog directories. Right now this blog is ranked in the top six million out of all websites worldwide while the ranking among U.S sites is 2,086,889. This ranking is based on how much traffic a website is getting. While this isn't bad I will need to get into the top million before I can say I'm really doing anything. I don't think that will be that hard though. I've noticed that a lot of people that make these types of blogs tend to give up after a few months and I don't plan on doing that. I plan on being here years from now.

I know you guys won't really understand what I'm doing until I get my other blog up and running and have my YouTube channel in place. Once I get these ready and I have my first giveaway it will be much clearer to everyone. I just hope if you are reading this blog that you keep in touch and keep checking back. I know I will have my first set of free coins rolled up by the end of next month so check back often.