Bag of nickels.
Finally got the bag of nickels but I was pretty sure it wasn't going to be anything special after only a few minutes at it. One bad thing about hunting bags from a bank is you may get someone else's coin roll hunt dump. Looks like a lot of this bag was just that. Very few older nickels in the entire bag, but i was able to get (3) 1939 nickels from it. (3) from the 40's, and (4) from the 50's. That was it though.
Fellow Md'ers, you may want to study your coins closely. I'm sure many of you know, but there are some modern coins that can get you a few bucks at a coin shop rather than $.05 at the bank.
2 of the coins were clearly dug coins, and they were both older. One of the 1939's was one of them and I hoped to find that a fellow MD'er had missed the elusive key date 1939-D. I had to scrub the back of the 1939 really well to check for the mint mark, and even then, I needed my 10x magnifying glass to verify there was no "D" mint mark. I'm still not positive, but whoever dug this surely didn't check.
For those who do not know:
Other than the 1950-D, the 1939-D is the key date of all Jefferson Nickels and is worth about $10 in VF condition. Doubt you could get that from a dug coin, but it's still worth more than a nickel.
Finally got the bag of nickels but I was pretty sure it wasn't going to be anything special after only a few minutes at it. One bad thing about hunting bags from a bank is you may get someone else's coin roll hunt dump. Looks like a lot of this bag was just that. Very few older nickels in the entire bag, but i was able to get (3) 1939 nickels from it. (3) from the 40's, and (4) from the 50's. That was it though.
Fellow Md'ers, you may want to study your coins closely. I'm sure many of you know, but there are some modern coins that can get you a few bucks at a coin shop rather than $.05 at the bank.
2 of the coins were clearly dug coins, and they were both older. One of the 1939's was one of them and I hoped to find that a fellow MD'er had missed the elusive key date 1939-D. I had to scrub the back of the 1939 really well to check for the mint mark, and even then, I needed my 10x magnifying glass to verify there was no "D" mint mark. I'm still not positive, but whoever dug this surely didn't check.
For those who do not know:
Other than the 1950-D, the 1939-D is the key date of all Jefferson Nickels and is worth about $10 in VF condition. Doubt you could get that from a dug coin, but it's still worth more than a nickel.