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Thanks for the replies guys. :) I'm going to through the coins after work today or tomorrow :)
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 and good luck with searching. |
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to CCF! |
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It's a large and easily recognized mint mark, Could be P,D,or S depending on the year.  |
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to the Community! Some (or many) will disagree, but you can call a regular 1942 nickel a " War Nickel" if you like; since they were minted during our involvement in World War II. By the same logic, any coin minted from 1942 to 1945 could be called as such; war quarter, war dime, etc. There are people who build war sets and they may also include other wars as well. It is a matter of personal taste, but since this is a place where people can disagree on terminology, it is best to fully qualify the description. For example, I prefer to say "silver wartime alloy nickels" myself, just to be clear. (Yes, I prefer wartime to war; as does the Red Book; but then I am also one who prefers to call Eisenhower dollars by their full name, so your mileage may vary.) So, in my opinion, a 1942 or 1942-D (1942-P and 1942-S were the only silver that year) can be called a non-silver wartime nickel without being misleading. |
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A great book for starting out is that thing called the Red Book by Whitman Publishing. Usually available in many book stores, on line dealers, coin stores, etc. |
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"Wartime nickels" are only those that used the "war time" emergency composition of 56% copper, 35% silver, and 9% manganese.
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any coin minted from 1942 to 1945 could be called as such; war quarter, war dime, etc. 1939-1945 you mean  |
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1939-1945 you mean Not if you're looking at American involvement in the war. |
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Not if you're looking at American involvement in the war. That is correct. From 1939 to 1941 (well, the last weeks of 1941), it was "someone else's war" and not ours (at least officially, because it would have been foolish to ignore it). |
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Quote:...The man I purchased them from was advertising them as "Silver War Nickels". ... I might be able to get my money back due to false advertising... If a main concern is getting money back due to false advertising, I would argue that the word "silver" used to sell any coin not made of silver is false advertising and is enough to get your money back. If the seller were to try and argue that "silver" was meant to describe the color, then I would argue back that the word "Nickel" was also used in the advertizing and could indicate color, composition, and the name of the coin and so the addition of the word "silver" is unnecessary unless one of those (color, composition, or name) is not accurately described by the word "Nickel", and the only one that might not be is composition, since the composition of some of them did not include silver, then any of those that were sold using the word "silver" were sold under false advertizing...Get your money back ... at least that's how my logic works. |
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Quote:First, is the non-silver 1942 coin still even considered a War Nickel? If not I might be able to get my money back due to false advertising, if I could see a link to something talking about this it would be great. The non-silver 1942 isn't considered a "War Nickel." Not by coin collectors. And Google is your friend if you need evidence on that. |
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Posted 07/03/2012 1:45 pm
