# Woohoo Treasure! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 1, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-treasure/333637 "2005-12-01T22:55:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-treasure/333637/1 "2005-12-01T22:55:10Z")
I was sorting through my bucket’o’random change out of boredom. I noticed a nickle that didn’t have quite the same look as the rest of the nickles. Checking it out farther it clearly looked wierd. 1945 too. Yep, it’s: [http://collecting-us-coins.com/nickels/silver-war-nickel.html](http://collecting-us-coins.com/nickels/silver-war-nickel.html) Hehe, I’m such a geek but finds like this really make my day. Even wheat pennies and silver quarters make me happy. It’s a just a boring old coin, then suddenly, wait it’s not it’s special.I don’t really know why, probably cause it’s a close as I’ll ever get to the old childhood daydreams of finding a buried chest of treasure.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ImaginalDisc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a88e57/32.png) [@ImaginalDisc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ImaginalDisc)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-treasure/333637/2 "2005-12-01T23:10:51Z")
On the link you provided, I saw this section: In addition to the quality of a coin, its value is also dependant on how rare it is. Below is a list of the approximate mintages of Silver Jefferson Nickels. 1942-P 58 Million 1942-S 33 Million 1943-P 271 Million 1943-S 104 Million 1943-D 15 Million 1944-P 119 Million 1944-S 22 Million 1944-D 32 Million 1945-P 119 Million 1945-S 59 Million 1945-D 37 Million And for a moment I thought they were refering to the _values_ of those nickels. I was thinking “Why is he posting, and not chilling it in the Caribean, saying ‘Marcelus Wallace was right.’?” ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-treasure/333637/3 "2005-12-02T01:32:59Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > I was sorting through my bucket’o’random change out of boredom. I noticed a nickle that didn’t have quite the same look as the rest of the nickles. Checking it out farther it clearly looked wierd. 1945 too. > Yep, it’s: > [http://collecting-us-coins.com/nickels/silver-war-nickel.html](http://collecting-us-coins.com/nickels/silver-war-nickel.html) > > Hehe, I’m such a geek but finds like this really make my day. Even wheat pennies and silver quarters make me happy. Me too, except I’ve never found a silver quarter, so I get my fun off Bicentennial quarters, Canadian coins and new state quarters. Today I got 2 shiny new Kansas quarters at the Rite Aid. (Pity the coin designer placed the sunflowers so that it looks like the bison just shat them.) Several months ago I was rolling my dimes and thought “That’s an odd looking dime, kinda lighter than the others but not as shiny… OMG is that a silver dime?” It was, the first one I’ve ever found. My oddest coin moment so far was getting a handful of change at the CVS and thinking “Wait a minute, that’s not a nickel. That’s not even round. What th’-” It was an English 20-pence piece, vaguely the size of a nickel, but it’s a heptagon for God’s sake. I’ve wondered ever since if the clerk was thick as a brick, or thought I was thick as a brick for accepting this weird coin she palmed off on me. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-treasure/333637/4 "2005-12-02T01:57:05Z")
About six months ago, I was emptying my loose change into my big change jar, and I noticed something a little wierd about one of the pennies. I took a closer look… and found [one of these.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_cent) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-treasure/333637/5 "2005-12-02T02:09:18Z")
More than once I’ve gotten a coin from the East Caribbean States in my change. Same size as a dime…