Each Jefferson I seen, looked, Fresh out of the Mint!

Last month, I decided to get out of the house, an told my wife, I wanted to go Downtown, an' do some window shopping. Well, I went into a Antique Store, to see if they had any coins or "Jefferson nickels" in there. I was looking at a Display Case of WW II Jeff/Nickels, and the owner just happened to come by, an'wanted to know, if there was anything he could do to help? I mentioned,that I'm into collecting Jefferson nickels,

an just came by to see if there were any here. The Owner' grinned an' said , he has a story to tell me,,,

He said, he went to an' Estate Sale recently an bought a Large-Trunk there that was Sealed,that been in someones' Attic for quite sometime, from the looks of it. He said he haggeled , an'eventually' purchased this Trunk. When he got home,,,he'broke the lock on it,,,an' was pulling stuff out, an' noticed' that someone was a "fisherman" in the family. It had a fishing Tackle Box,so he just set it aside, an'kept'looking at other stuff,,Well, a couple days went by,an'he kept seeing this Tackle box,an' decided to see what fishing lures this person had collected, opening it,an' going thru the Lures'an fishing weights/hooks,he noticed' at the very bottom of the Tackle box, was this old dark paper-roll, so opening it,a few Choice- BU/ Shiny nickels dropped in his hand,as there was almost a Complete Roll of these 1939-P/Jeffersons!

The owner didn't know anything about these (coins) so he called a coin dealer in town, to get an idea of how much these might be worth,he told the dealer,they were Flashy an' Brilliant Looking. The Dealer told him, that without looking at them, they might be value'd at $75-100 or so, if they were that shiny,an nice!

Well, I had to see these! I asked if he'd hold'these for me, because I had to go home and get my Loupe. Arriving back to the Store, I shook-out a few from the roll to examine, and (3) had Awesome',full-steps,in just those! I have a Photo, I want to show you. Almost every one of these sure look Gem-Bu-Jeff's to me.

This (Window-Shopping), is Really' Alot of Fun!

Good-Day, Jim/ jb4gpo