What you may not know about Nickels

[@martymcnasty8239]

I live around the same area, stay safe buddy we're supposed to get more snow soon. Great video

[@TwoshedsGabby]

Thank you.. I haven't done a thing about getting out yet, and more is coming. LoL. Maybe I can get to a few more boxes of coins before the next round.

[@phyllisclark3896]

Thank you for sharing your search. ❤️🙏

[@TwoshedsGabby]

@@phyllisclark3896 thanks for being a part.

[@phyllisclark3896]

@ My pleasure ❤️🙏

[@TwoshedsGabby]

@phyllisclark3896 I've been putting coin videos on KZbin now for about 8 years, and I've really enjoyed the discussions and compliments, and other feedback over the years.

[@phyllisclark3896]

@ Since watching your videos, I have a new found interest in nickels. I save my old ones too. I save all my pennies but perhaps I will return the newer ones that are clad. I watch some of the older videos on TV at bedtime but cannot leave comments. Enjoy yourself ❤️🙏

[@TwoshedsGabby]

@phyllisclark3896 thanks for watching the archives, I hope you are getting some enjoyment from them . I had some weird ideas in the early days....

[@creatureselfie]

A guy I used to work with was using a hammer for something. He used to work on cars and he told me a polish joke about a hammer in regards to the auto industry. He called his hammer a polish speed-wrench. Not entirely sure what he meant by that but he had a good chuckle to himself lol.

[@TwoshedsGabby]

@@creatureselfie I'm trying to figure that one out.. LoL

[@kennysilver9769]

I have been saving all pre 1960 nickels for 10 years. I like them cause they are old like me.

[@TwoshedsGabby]

@@kennysilver9769 we think alike my friend

[@richnet12]

Do you scope any of them for die cracks or double dies? I must admit that I never find them on nickels.

[@TwoshedsGabby]

@@richnet12 I don't take the time to look. It takes too long for me.

[@jasonstclair1329]

Great joke you shared, a wonderful lesson to learn. I recently found a 2023 nickel that is very similar to your 2014, i’d like to know what type of error it is as well. The one I have is in very good condition, the letters and date on mine are roughly 30% wider than normal to.

[@TwoshedsGabby]

Wow, something like a "Strike through grease error "

[@jasonstclair1329]

@@TwoshedsGabby- possibly, this one is about a MS65 or better for what it is .

[@PCMcGee1]

Honey, look what the cat dragged in.

[@TwoshedsGabby]

LoL

[@JadeDragon407]

Ohio... where the state flower is the orange highway barrel. 🤣🤣 Shows like "All in the Family", you couldn't get away with making that nowdays, sadly. '65-67, I feel like the folks working in Denver felt like red-headed step-kids not getting to put their nice little D on coinage those years. Little fun story about the Denver Mint for you: me and my dad ran up to CO in '93 the summer after I got my license (he let me drive the WHOLE trip except downhill Pike's Peak, going up was nerve-racking enough LOL). We stopped in to see the mint while in Denver proper. In one of the rooms, on top of two of the minting machines, they had bumper stickers on the top of the machines, one machine had a Denver Broncos one, and the other had a "Don't Mess with Texas" one, which being from TX, we got a kick out of and most unexpected! Case you don't know, "don't mess with Texas" was a motto from around '88 or so I think that the state gov come up with to battle littering on the side of the highways. Thing I noticed you pass up that I keep, are the '68-70 S-mint nickels. All the denominations, I like keeping the non-proof S years. Cool hunt, you didn't do too shabby!

[@TwoshedsGabby]

Good to hear from you, as always.. sometimes I feel like that's the Kentucky state flower as well.. I like to think in most areas in life I'm a pretty responsible person, but when it snows and ices I like to just hibernate, I don't want to shovel the drive, I just want to chill, but now it's Wednesday and I have to decide if I need to try to make it to Bible study tonight (I teach a class). I'm sure they will survive without me. Ugh, can't I have this short little season of no responsibility? Oh well, we'll see. I don't like to let people down. I'll go to the mailbox and access the situation. Driving in the mountains as a young driver. That will test your nerves. Some of those curves are so tight you can see the tail end of your car as you go around. We did it in the Appalachian Mountains a fair amount. Steep and winding for sure I'd like to visit a mint, that would be really cool. And you know, I think I remember that Don't mess with Texas thing. I lived there as a young man in the oil industry Oh man, I better get back to sleep... Good night

[@JadeDragon407]

@@TwoshedsGabby I don't know how y'all do the the mountains in the winter. Those mountains states are summer-only for me. I've only done the parkways in KY from one end to the other and up toward Cinci; I'm sure the back state roads get pretty wild in places like US 50 in WV was when I rolled through there. See the back of your car as you go around a curve 🤣🤣 Reminds me of stuff you'd see in those old Looney Tunes cartoons from the 40s-50s. That's cool you used to be in TX. Around H-town here probably?

[@TwoshedsGabby]

@JadeDragon407 I don't do the mountains most of the time. Here in Louisville. Plenty of hills, but no mountains. I lived in the Odessa area. Took my wife through there last year, she thought it was the armpit of America. Haha, I really liked it there...

[@JadeDragon407]

@@TwoshedsGabby Couple of times I've been to Detroit area where step sis lived, yea... Louisville wasn't too bad altitude-wise. I've never been to Midland/Odessa, but other parts of TX out that way, it's 100s of miles of nada LOL. As a rainforest creature, I'm glad to be in the more treesy part of the state... although given the metro area of 7 million, it's not as treesy as I'd like hehe

[@TwoshedsGabby]

@JadeDragon407 oh my, big city... I went to Brownsville, then across the southern part of the state to Big Bend park. I love driving through Texas. We considered moving there until my brother died and we needed to get back close to my mom.

[@freedomfighter2417]

that 2014 is just damage

[@TwoshedsGabby]

Thanks, I thought it might be

[@jasonstclair1329]

Not necessarily.

[@russellking1924]

The 2014 has an overly greased die. The planchet doesn’t appear right either. The bust and the field shouldn’t stick out as much. Same for the reverse. The device, letters and field are pushed out. It’s a poorly struck coin. If you check the rim it seems untouched so it isn’t roadkill.

[@TwoshedsGabby]

Thank you very much

[@russellking1924]

@ I would also add that when the mint greases the die it would take a few strikes for the grease to wear off. Also, when the die is greased a die adjustment can be made. Then you get a die adjustment strike which is also an error. Check out Coin Community. They report errors.

[@russellking1924]

@ The rim appears to fine so a broad strike error is also in the mix. Some coins have multiple errors.

[@TwoshedsGabby]

@russellking1924 wow, a multiple error coin is quite interesting

[@mikekauffman882]

How many pennies do you put in a pound how many pounds do you put in your boxes

[@TwoshedsGabby]

Depends, a pound is about 145 copper pennies, but if you want a pound of copper you need to go up to about 155 or so ... I fill the penny boxes to 15 pounds 2 ounces

[@LstrO42]

You know the toothbrush was invented in KY? Everywhere else it would've been a teethbrush..... Badum, pshhh

[@TwoshedsGabby]

LoL...... I still have more than 1 tooth, but I generally only brush 1 at a time

[@dwightbennett1968]

Do u save 2004 & 2005 nickles

[@TwoshedsGabby]

I don't...Do you think should?

[@jeffkeller9009]

I save my older, and good condition nickels, Don't think they will be worth more, but still a nickel saved, I use ammo cans to store my nickels

[@TwoshedsGabby]

Do you have boxes in the cans? Or just drop them in loose? I also heard the feds stopped military auctions of ammo cans and the like. That's ridiculous in my "O" pinion

[@veritasfiles]

Everyone takes everything personally today, and I think that comes from 50+ years of teaching people in college to whine and cry, mostly illegitimately, about the inequities of life, of America, etc... The idea that it's a fact that you need to embrace that "life isn't always fair" and the simple truth that "life is hard, and then you die", used to be things that were impressed on people pretty early in life. You used to be able to tell people to "buck up", "get over it", or even "grow up" when such an encouragement or an admonishment was necessary, but people look at you like you're the most heartless person in the world if you call them to a better behavior or perspective than what they are currently exhibiting. I think it all goes back to that saying, “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” I think the 1930s maybe all the way through to the 70s somewhere, times were significantly harder than they are today, and at least since sometime in the 1980s, I think life has gotten progressively easier. We're not just seeing the consequences of those easier times being played out in real life. I could be wrong about that, as I'm sure there's far more to it than what I've said, but I think there's something to that. Just everything being manual makes a difference. Today everything is automatic, digital, convenient, etc... There are vacuums that run themselves, and I think there are even lawnmowers that run themselves today. Who changes their oil on their on today? I know I don't do that anymore. In fact, I don' think I've done that since I was in college back in the 1990s. Yeah, I started keeping nickels probably almost 20 years ago, some significant amount of time after I'd started keeping the pennies. In fact, I kept pennies as a young kid, I guess just for fun. I used to keep them in separate jars by decade. Wheaties went in one jar, which was a little glass pig. Then '59 through '69 went into an old but big orange juice or apple juice gallon jar. Then '70 through '79, '80 through '89, and '90 through '96 each went into their own 1 gallon pickle jar. We moved out of Kansas and to a larger city in Missouri during the 90s while I was in college, and I had the jars in my closet for several years. Then I got and engaged in 2004 and I bought a house in 2005 When I moved all of my stuff, I got those jars back out. I remember in 2006, after I'd gotten married and my wife moved in, put both sat down on the floor and sorted all of the '80s & '81s out of my 80's jar and combined those with my '60s & '70s pennies. I think I had around 25 pounds of pennies at that time. I'd kept change and stuff in mugs and things like that in the meantime, while all of my pennies were in the closet, so I took all of my change, including probably 30 pounds of addition zinc pennies and poured all of my change from the last several years and those zince pennies from my childhood into a canvas bag and turned them in at the local credit union that I was a part of through work. I think I ended up getting something like $961 back. I remember partly because I was a little embarrassed that day. I had so much change, when the lady took it from me, she needed help because it was so heavy, and they put it into the coin sorter. Well, one lady stepped away, and not long after, the one of the plastic bags under the machine broke away from however it was hanging and dropped. Apparently, it either split open or wasn't connected to anything, and when she opened the bottom of the machine, coins just gushed out and spewed all over the floor. I got my money, but I felt bad and embarrassed that these ladies were were all dressed up for work in skirts and things were having to get down on their hands and knees and pick up all of this change. Back then, you couldn't use the machine, so you weren't allowed to go behind and help them, so I just had to stand there and watch them try to get the situation under control and picked up. But it was around that time, I started keeping nickels. I struggled with what nickels to keep, since I was actively keeping them for their Copper and Nickel, but the composition of the coins hadn't changed. I didn't like the idea of just keeping every single nickel I came across, so I decided that since they'd started a new design(s) for Jefferson and couldn't figure out what they wanted to do for a couple of years (2004 & 2005), I'd just keep everything from 2003 and before. At first, it felt like I was keeping absolutely everything, but as the years have gone by, I keep very few nickels these days. I'd say 80%+ of the nickels that pass through my hands are 2004 or newer. It really is a tiny minority that end up being 2003 or before, and the further you go back, the smaller and smaller number of them I see. I know I've gotten a nickel from the 50s in 2024, but I don't think I got more than 1 or 2 the whole year. The vast majority have been from 1988 to 2003, if they were the kind that I keep. So I don't think you're the only one keeping nickels. I think a lot of people are doing it, but they don't want to tell anyone because people might thing they were strange or something. I couldn't care less at this point. I'm doing it for my own reasons, and that's good enough for me. I probably have about 100lbs or something close to that in nickels, and I have well over 100lbs in Copper pennies. You should see the amount foreign coins I've pick up over the years too. As soon as I get into a new house, one of the things I'm going to do is try to find a better way to store and/or display them. Not my Silver or Gold coins of course, but the coins that really aren't worth much or not much over their face value, especially the foreigns, which are cool to look at. Anyway, sorry for writing a book. Okay box, but sorry you didn't get your Silver or 2024. Better luck next time!

[@TwoshedsGabby]

Well it's always good to hear from you... And I think you are right on the money with people today. In the past 18 years olds were working or in the military. If you heard something you didn't like you you walked away, or if it was bad enough you punched somebody. Today they run to the professor and cry. The good times making weak men is a general truth. In business law class in college the liberal teacher was discussing weather a hotel was liable in a tort case if a woman was raped in one of their rooms. During a discussion I asked if it was considered that maybe the woman was lying. I got hit in the chest with an eraser ( you don't ask such questions) she had to apologize for that one... And we have gotten much worse as a society since 89 for sure.... I've got 540 plus pounds of copper pennies, but nothing even close to that in nickels. I've been collecting the older ones for several years, but I just didn't go through as many nickels back then ... I feel like the low mintage 2024s has sparked a lot of people. I seldom got much response to my nickel videos until this year (but I also admit my channel has grown a good bit this year too) but maybe that alone is one of the things that has helped my channel grow too Well I hope if get another silver and another 24 in one ( or 2) of these nickel boxes I have left. I better try to get some more sleep. Good night

[@SILVERBROTHER72]

Why don't Pollocks eat peanut M&Ms .........because it takes too long to get them out of the shell 😅

[@TwoshedsGabby]

LoL

[@SILVERBROTHER72]

I think that darker 2014 is environmental damage

[@TwoshedsGabby]

@@SILVERBROTHER72 I felt like it was, but wasn't sure

[@bigo2032]

Keep digging brother, you will get that Silver, persistence, pay off, by the way, a rabbi, a priest, and a preacher…. Just kidding, Keep Stackin Bro

[@TwoshedsGabby]

@@bigo2032 LoL.... I hear ya... Thank you... I'll start another box tonight

[@LstrO42]

2014 is bleach or chemical damage, imo. I'll take any buffalo nickel any day of the week!

[@TwoshedsGabby]

@@LstrO42 date or no date, I love to find them... Thanks

[@terrybellar7661]

Man,I don't know what but,I always do better than you,silver picker,rob etc,etc,etc,I'm I lucky or what?

[@TwoshedsGabby]

@@terrybellar7661 maybe I need to get boxes from some different areas... Anyway, congratulations

[@NM-eb5ej]

Why don't you wear gloves, these coins are nasty?

[@TwoshedsGabby]

@@NM-eb5ej I don't like wearing gloves, and I just wash my hands when I'm done. Most of the time....

[@TwoshedsGabby]

@@NM-eb5ej and honestly... I drop things too much anyway. I don't feel connected when wearing gloves. I'm even more uncoordinated