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I found a BUNCH of these cleaning out my grandfathers closet I know about a lot of errors like the wrong planchet or material. anyone think anything of this one? I'm just shooting shots I'm not assuming anything. I have 1942,43,44,and 45s   |
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That greenish toning is very common on warnicks. to the CCF! Edited by Coinfrog
05/24/2023 10:34 am
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@mrm, first welcome to CCF. Second, the best way determine if a coin might be struck on an off-metal planchet is by measuring the weight. Unless this is far out of mint specs, you should assume that this is just surface discoloration rather than a mint error. Added: I had to look it up, but the composition of these War Nickels was 35% silver, 56% copper and 9% manganese. Your comment about the discoloration being due to copper is probably pretty accurate. It is just that most of the coins struck from this alloy undergo similar surface discoloration. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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What happens to silver? It tarnishes. The 1942-1945 had nickels that were using silver, instead of nickel. Thus they color as they metal on the surfaces tarnish. These are normal for those years and today they have a silver premium for these coins. How to tell the differences? The enlarged mintmarks above the building.  The 1942 are the only years were both appeared. The need for the nickel at that time, needed to be used for other purposes. Thus the Type 1 and 2 for that year. 1943-1945 were the full years of the Type 2 nickels. Today the Type 2 have a silver melt value. The type ones are just normal nickels. All weight the same amount. Just different materials used on the Type 2 nickels. |
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Before you do anything rash like sell those for the scrap silver value—about $1.33 per nickel today (24 May 2023)—you need to learn about War Nickel varieties. There are a number of valuable War Nickels like 1943/2. If you have an old collection that wasn't examined under magnification, there might be some real diamonds in the rough. |
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When coins are pretty much beat up, it is not going to be a big premium for these varieties. Spend more listing and trying to sell than it could be worth. Melt silver is the way to rid yourself of an ugly coin. (They don't care about the coin condition on scrap melt)
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to the CCF and 
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Any chance of getting a weight of this nickel?
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Posted 05/24/2023 10:33 am
