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Valued Member
United States
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Greetings, the look of your nickel being off to you is a result of its Metal Composition: 56% Copper - 35% Silver - 9% Manganese It is a 100% certainty that no all steel planchett was ever used in the mint at this time other than the Zinc coated pennies and this does not look to be struck on that smaller type of planchett. JMHO and Observation  |
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Valued Member
 United States
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It's not copper it's a experimental metal what I was told got to 1943 p nickels one's got a higher ping to it you almost got like a duller thing to it
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Valued Member
United States
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Valued Member
United States
301 Posts |
@Owe What experiment were they conducting ? was not saying it to be copper, just gave the Metal Composition of what was used that year. But if someone told you they were thinking of using all steel planchett for the nickels during the war, it is the first time I ever herd of this. During experiments at the mint they tended to be very careful to send off test pieces to the furnace when done, some strike calibration coins had made there way out accidentally though .  |
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Valued Member
United States
301 Posts |
As far as the weight is concerned the standard is:
5.0
4.806 at the low end.
5.194 at the high end.
yours at 4.6 but yours has a lot of circulation wear so I see the weight within reason.
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Forum Dad
 United States
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It's a normal nickel .4 grams light due to tolerance and extreme wear. Nothing special here.
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Forum Dad
United States
24171 Posts |
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It's not copper it's a experimental metal what I was told got to 1943 p nickels one's got a higher ping to it you almost got like a duller thing to it You know about War Nickels right? 1942-1945 Nickels are different than all other nickels.... on purpose though, not experimental. So of course they sound different. https://www.coincommunity.com/us_ni...efferson.asp |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Agree, just a well-worn old warnick.
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Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
Yes I have the whole set well I have all the way from 1938 to 1959 I even have the double die Monticello with FS it's about a MS 63or 63 an a half
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4135 Posts |
Weight is normal, composition has been explained, experimental alloy is debunked, no way is this steel, and as far as dropping a coin to hear a sound, that is non science way of doing things in my opinion. "some will do it and I respect that but I would not". You have a common War Nickel so worn it is only worth silver content value. |
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Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
Well thank y'all so much for the information I'm some what new maybe a year in a half into it so thank you very much for y'all's knowledge I appreciate it
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Valued Member
United States
301 Posts |
@Owe , I'm glad everyone was able to help you out with this and you can move on to the next one you need our help with.  |
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Moderator
United States
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Late to this party - but a fairly worn down War Nickel . |
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Moderator
United States
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Double late to the party -  with the consensus |
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