Looking For People That Know Diagnostics Of The Henning Nickel

Correct, brain cramp. I do know that they did have small vertical lines around the outside edge, on some of the less worn ones. I've seen it, and I owned one with those markings. Sold it on ebay a few years ago. Had pics, but not sure if I saved them.

edit: Were the dies cast? Maybe the marks were on the dies, and transferred to the coins.

Some Henning Nickels have raised dots inside the "M" of "UNUM".

I too would be interested in knowing / finding out if he had gotten his material in a publishable or sharable form. Also, he had a lot of Hennings nickels, over a hundred if I recall correctly. Does anyone know what happened to them?

Finallty got the pics of what I thought might be a Henning. Although now I am doubting it b/c it s 1947-D. It is porous and weak though and I have been looking at pics of Hennings on the forum, it still resembles one to me.

Edited to add - not sure why the OBV is sideways - its not in my computer files!

Now this weird one of mine has me thinking (oh oh!)

The 1944s with no mint mark are an obvious Henning and are well documented as such. I would think for other dates the the holey R would be a Henning giveaway also.

However this 1947-D either makes it look:

1. like environmental damage (or whatever happened to my coin) can make a nickel look like a Henning,

or

2. Henning made 1947-Ds also.

Do we have direct, verifiable evidence that Henning made 1947-P nickels, or has the knowldge of Henning 1947s (and other non-holey Rs) been based soley upon what you could call the "Henning look?"

If there is no direct documentation for 1947-P Hennings, this 1947-D is throwing a monkey wrench into the machinery.

Can anyone who knows more than I do about these nickels make sense of any of this and possibly clarify?

I managed to purchase a copy of the counterfeit 1944 Jefferson nickel book by Dwight Stuckey and read it what the book states is the nickels have no mint marks and there were 6 years 39,44,46,47,and 53. Leaving the last year to be unknown.

So I reread the counterfeit 44 Jefferson nickel book and the information came from actual interviews of Henning himself and secret service members as well as documented information out of newspapers. This book is the closest to documentation I've found on the Henning Nickels other than little articles published on them. I would agree that there are cases of people having actual minted nickel not containing looped R that people are calling Henning nickels.. the best way I've found to identify Henning is magnification of areas on the coin looking for cast bubbles as well weight of coin.. from what I've read and seen in my collection weight is under and over I personally have a nickel that is 4.95 grams which is a looped R nickel and a looped R that is overweight also at 5.53 grams

@nickelcollectr - thanks for this info.

It is good to know the interviews with Henning plus the other official sources from that time are what gives us our knowledge we have of the Henning nickels.

I am packing up everything for relocating and my scales are in a sealed box. Otherwise I would dig this one out and weigh it. Again, I know its not a Henning. Verifying the weight to be that of a proper nickel will also show environmental damage can contribute to a non-holed-R Henning look alike.

I am glad mine is not a 1947 P, or I might not have known.