Since the entire east coast is covered in rain, ice, and snow, I figured today is a solid enough day to look through some coins, and catch up on the Big Brother Reindeer Games.
My wife picked me up a roll of nickels recently, so I wanted to start there to clear them out.
I do not have a modern nickel album, and that 2004-2024 Whitman album is currently sold out EVERYWHERE (you honestly can’t find one right now), so a lot of nickels end up being put on the hold list for another day. For now, I’m just dropping those back in a roll.
It was a relatively quiet pull. I haven’t officially started collecting nickels yet, so many of them ended up in the book. The absolute highlight though, was pulling a 1939 nickel. It’s in Good to Fine shape, and it did not have a mint mark (the 1939-D has a pretty low mint number at 3,514,000, which makes it relatively rare, and more valuable).
The 1939 was only the second year of the Jefferson/Monticello nickels, coming after the end of the Buffalo nickel in 1938.
The 1939 nickel also has a rare and expensive double die error on the MONTICELLO on the reverse.
A double die error on a coin occurs when the die used to strike the coin is misaligned, making the coin feature a doubling effect, causing certain elements of the design to appear doubled. This can result in a distorted or shadowed effect on the coin’s details, often making it a desirable collectible for numismatists.
I put mine under the microscope, but unfortunately, it didn’t have it:
With all this being said, I’m still always excited to see any coin from the 1930s and earlier, and it was easily the highlight of the roll.
And finally, the charts of the hunt:
I also did three rolls of pennies as a part of this hunt, but I’ll save that for Part 2 of the Winter Storm Weekend series. Stay warm, y’all!
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