I wanted to put in one of my journals again to let starting/ beginning collectors realize by checking around in Antique Stores,yard and estate sales you may find the coin you have been searching for in your collection.

Head to the Beach,look where people have Lunch along the viewpoints there. Check out the old parks in your city or town. Old school playgrounds is a great place to use a metal detector also. Get out and take a hike in the forests on those wilderness trails,keep an eye open for old cabins,mining sites or shacks. Townsites that have been long forgotten might be another idea. Check out those old cars,the seat cushions front and especially the back, .

Theres no guarantee of finding anything,let your mind wander abit,Imagine coming upon a partially torndown shack you notice a small loose section of a wall,when removing it spotting a stash of old coins there. Things like this does happen to determined searchers before. I am hoping this will inspire younger coin collectors of what lost coins that may still be waiting to be found. The following story is an example at being there at the right time, I got lucky.

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I picked a good day Window Shopping. With each coin I held, looked fresh out of the mint.

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Last month, I decided to get out of the house an told my wife, I wanted to go downtown and 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 when the owner just happened to come by and wanted to know if there was anything he could do to help me.I mentioned that I collected Jefferson nickels and just stopped in to see if there were any here. The Owner grinned and said he had a story to tell me.

He said, he went to an Estate Sale recently an bought a Large-Trunk that was sealed. It had been in someones attic for quite sometime from the looks of it. He said he haggeled,an eventually won this Trunk. When he got home he broke the lock on it and was pulling stuff out and noticed that someone was a fisherman in the family with a fishing Tackle Box in there. He just set that aside, an kept looking at other stuff.

Well, a couple days went by and he kept seeing this Tackle box,so decided to see what fishing lures this person had collected, opening it,and going thru all the lures and fishing weights/hooks he noticed at the very bottom of the Tackle box was this old dark brown paper roll. Opening it a few Choice-BU/Shiny nickels dropped in his hand as they were almost a complete roll of 1939-P Jefferson nickels.

The owner said didnt know anything about coins,he called a coin dealer here in town to get an idea of just how much these might be worth. He told the dealer they were flashy an shiny looking.

The Dealer told him that without looking at them in hand, it would be hard to put a price value on it,to come down when you have time.Owner mentioned being busy,he never got around to it.

Well, I had to see these! I asked if he would hold these for me, because I had to go home and get my Loupe. Arriving back to his Store, I shook-out a few from the roll to examine, and (3) had awesome full-steps in just those! The owner said, I will let you have this whole roll for $200 Cash! I mentioned that was more than I wanted to spend. The owner had a vacation coming up an would be out of town for a month to check with him when he got back. So I got his Card and phone number before I left.

Over a month later,I came across his card and I gave him call just to see if he still had this Jefferson roll. He replied-Sure Do! I told him I had $100 that I could only offer for it! The owner said,Well- come on down to the store then, it would be here waiting for me. Here is a Photo of this Original-Roll I wanted to show you, almost every nickel sure looks Gem-Bu-Jeffs to me.

This Window-Shopping is Really Alot of Fun!

Good-Day, Jim/ jb4gpo

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