The Disneyland Seasonal Nickel Collection was first offered in 1995. The special seasonal or Christmas set of three pressed or elongated nickels was an instant favorite of many Disneyland pressed "penny" collectors. Each year it seems a growing number of Disneyland guests line up to press this fun souvenir of the year-end Holiday Season. The seasonal nickel press machine can at times be very busy as people press coins for themselves and fellow collectors. Some folks like to enclose these little treasures in Christmas cards intended for a list of friends that often are anxiously awaiting them. (Don't delay pressing yours. The machine usually arrives in early November and is usually gone by early February.)
To date, these yearly sets have shared some very popular features. They usually are inscribed with "New Years", "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings", the year of issue and from 2005 on each coin has also had a very nice backstamp.
Although this set is sometimes called "The Christmas Nickels Set", the word "Christmas" has not been found on a one of them so far. If you would like to collect or gift coins with a true Christmas greeting spelled out on them, Tokyo Disneyland usually issues Christmas medals starting around the first week of November.
Boomer's 2009 note: As you may have noticed, online auctions that started in the 1990's became a major source of Disneyland pressed coins, and introduced the hobby to the world. Soon, the small, mostly local, group of collectors became a larger and growing group of enthusiasts from both near and far.
As a result, earlier Disneyland coins have been getting harder to find as new collectors seek to complete their collections by acquiring coins issued and retired long before they started their collections. However, today's new collectors are not yet too late and should be able to find most all of these onstage coins... in time.
This page has only pictures of the Seasonal Nickel Sets, please see also the respective Disneyland elongated coin guide pages and for more nickels, The Disneyland elongated nickels guide
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