Jefferson Nickel Coins

How can I get brand new Jefferson nickel rolls from the Fed? I want uncirculated coins rolls?

Oct 02, 2010 by Rob | Posted in Hobbies & Crafts

I see people with these beautiful uncirculated coins and I'd like to start collecting them? How do I go about this? The coins are in mint condition, straight from the roll...I ask for coin rolls from the bank and I always get rolls that ordinary people

The first thing, of course, is to ask these people how and where they got theirs.

You can't get them directly from the Fed yourself, and the US Mint doesn't sell circulating coins. They sell collector coins to individuals and dealers, and

My Jefferson Nickel Album

In this video, I show you guys my Jefferson nickel album. It's from 1938-2011. I started filling up this book about 6 months ago. I also ...

The Founders Preferred 'E Pluribus Unum'

19.05.12

Even if Congress does follow Canada’s example by retiring the penny, we’ll still have to deal with the nickel, which now costs almost a dime to make.

But the cost is only part of the problem with U.S. currency. As a religious humanist, I am more concerned with the words imprinted on every coin and bill in the United States: “In God We Trust,” a motto that the House of Representatives recently saw fit to reaffirm in a resolution that cited “a crisis of national identity.” A far more inclusive motto, “E pluribus unum,” proposed for the first Great Seal of the United States by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson in 1776, also appears on all of our coins and some of our bills.

Source: New York Times

It might be circulation damage, coin wrapper damage or VLDS or a combination of all. The devices I can see if theyr are lines flowing aroound the devices. I did not the top of the head looks like something that may have affect the rest of the coin. Is it wider than normal? Someone may have squeezed it between two pieces of leather? Hard to tell from images provided. Usually on LVDS coins you can see the die flow in the fields. I think I can see it on the mint mark area on the first image. But the...

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