A couple of weeks ago, while on the phone with my father, he mentioned the Lewis and Clark Westward Expansion Nickles and how he just couldn’t find ANY.  My dad is a coin nut, not to the point where he buys coins, but man, he NEVER wants to get rid of change.  He keeps coffee cans full of them.  He does have some coins that are non-normal change, like wheat cents and buffalo nickels.  He also hordes the 50 state quarters, to the point where he’ll trade you eagle quarters for state ones just so he can have more.  I think his point in that is that he’d really like a full roll of each coin, of each mint mark.  And I know that he wanted at least one roll of the Westward Expansion nickles, and one of each mint mark.  So far, that’s 4 rolls.  So, that’s $8 worth of nickels.  Well, so far I have secured 1 roll of Peace Medal Nickels Mint Mark-D from Ebay for $9.79.  I secured a roll of each mint mark in the Keelboat design from the U.S. Mint for $13.95.  I am currently working on securing the Mint Mark-P Peace Medal nickels, which will probably cost me between $8-10.  These will then be my main Christmas present for my father.  I feel kind of dumb paying so much more money for this currency than it is actually worth, but if it’ll make him happy, I’ll do it.  He’s been really really great to me lately and I’d like to repay that with a gift I know he’ll love.  Anyway, in case you haven’t seen them here are the nickel backs: