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wert Rest in Peace 1988 Posts	Posted 11/23/2011 5:00 pm Hi guys All the years I have looked at my 1943 tombac nickel, I never noticed that there is "Morse code" along the rim of this coin....See pic. Report this Post to the Staff

Buddy Rest in Peace United States 7075 Posts	Posted 11/23/2011 5:19 pm I recently (last week) learned what the morse code says....'We Win When We Work Willingly'. Report this Post to the Staff
wert Rest in Peace 1988 Posts	Posted 11/23/2011 5:22 pm That's cool Buddy....Thanks for the info. Report this Post to the Staff
Buddy Rest in Peace United States 7075 Posts	Posted 11/23/2011 7:34 pm Found it on Wikipedia. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10463 Posts	Posted 11/23/2011 9:53 pm I think the Morse code message was absent on the 2005 Victory commemorative 5-cent coins. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
wert Rest in Peace 1988 Posts	Posted 11/23/2011 9:59 pm SPP-Ottawa Would't the Morse code be associated with the war time effort and no longer needed in 2005...Just a thought. Report this Post to the Staff
Earle42 Bedrock of the Community United States 10047 Posts	Posted 11/23/2011 10:09 pm The Morse Code is also on the REV of the 1944 and 1945 Victory nickels. For my recent 500th post I just had a contest (competed) concerning this nickel. Here is a pic I posted there which maps out the Morse code: They did not put it on the circulation 2005, but they did put it on two different RCM special issue proof silver nickels. Another proof they made that year had gold plating on the V and torch. How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halves https://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10463 Posts	Posted 11/23/2011 10:12 pm It was a commemorative coin, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII. The intent of the RCM was to use the same commemorative design, on the same denomination (it is right in the 2006 Mint Report). We will never know the reason why the Morse code was omitted, my personal thoughts on that is because it would not work well with a round coin (remember the 1943-1945 strikes were 12-sided). "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
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