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Pillar of the Community
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Glad to see you and Julian came to some deals. Can't wait to see what you got  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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A nice find for sure!  |
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I think we have a member that kinda specializes in these? Just wondering,is there any known reproductions made of this fake nickel? In other words,a fake of a fake. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The R sticks out like a turd in a punch bowl! Great addition to the collection!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5802 Posts |
Really nice find. congrats.
(LOL at Jim0815. I'll never be able to drink from a punch bowl again.)
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We need to consume them regularly to thrive and grow.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Well done!   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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These are worth more as a counterfeit, that the real ones. Go figure?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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@coop, yeah... I like the story/history about this coin. but maybe we just like to buy AMERICAN. we all hate the Chinese fakes.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks for the kind words! And John1, since you asked, here is a fake of the fake. This thing looks extremely good as a Henning, but it does not have the usual die marker on PLURIBUS and only weighs a paltry 4.96g. 1944 "no P" Jefferson nickel - Counterfeit of a counterfeit "Henning" nickel   |
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Very nice find! These are surprisingly very difficult to find and pretty pricey to purchase.
-CH27
Collector of U.S. Coins, Varieties, and Colonial Coinage
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Bedrock of the Community
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Why could Henning not have used more than one reverse die for his counterfeits?
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Pillar of the Community
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Frog, Yes he did use more than one reverse die (the other does not have the die goober in the R). And the obverse on this second coin is a dead ringer for a Henning. But I have never heard of one being called real that far underweight. I am under the opinion that all his blanks were overweight.
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Pillar of the Community
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I used to have a subscription to a magazine called "Weird NJ" that did a story on Henning. It said that he dumped 200,000 of his counterfeits in Cooper River in Cherry Hill. I really want to go there with my metal detector and find that stash. Only 100k of his fakes made it into circulation. That amount would have cost him $3,500 to produce with a profit of only $1,500. It's estimated that he may have minted as many as 500,000 coins. The value of the coins he dumped in NJ could be as much as $6,000,000 to today's collectors. This link is to a copy of the article from Weird NJ https://www.courierpostonline.com/s...it/26070351/ ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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Bedrock of the Community
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Great story behind the story, Yokozuna! Fascinating stuff! |
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