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My co-worker left on Tuesday..
Today whilst looking for tape, I found a couple of bucks worth of pennies and nickles.
out of the stash..
2-wheat pennies, 1940, 1939
1-1942 nickel....
I had just read that during 1942-44, the mint put silver in the nickles...
now I have one.
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In 1942 they made both a silver and a regular. The silver one has a big MM on top of the Monticello on the reverse. John1  EDIT: fixed bid to big Edited by John1
05/18/2012 09:55 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Nice finds. Yeah, check the reverse of the 42 nickel, to make sure it is silver. And it goes up to 1945 for the silver nickels.
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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I think John was trying to say there is a " big " mint mark.......... ( not a bid )
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Nice finds!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Something about the title of this thread just sounds wrong.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Just theater of the mind....  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Is your co-worker coming back ?
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
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No he isn't coming back... moved on to a different part of the company.
If he was coming back I wouldn't have taken the change he left behind.
one is stealing the other is just finders keepers..
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Bedrock of the Community
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HAHAHAHA....sweet.
Everyone I work with knows I collect "pennies". I have had 3 different handfuls delivered to my office from people that were cleaning out their drawers. Nothing to note out of those other than some copper.
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Pillar of the Community
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My coworkers all know that I save pennies and any coin which may look strange. I buy them all up. Everyone has pennies in their drawer. And they bring them in from home sometimes too.
Stampvirgin, did you find out if the 1942 nickel is really "nickel" or "silver"?
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Pillar of the Community
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Nice find. I hope that 42 Jefferson is the silver Nickel issue.
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Pillar of the Community
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perfessor, I have not looked to determine if it is nickel or silver... any way to tell?
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Silver (35%) nickels will have a Huge mint mark on the reverse (side with Monticello) at 12 o clock. It's hard to miss. it will be HUGE.  Nice find though, either way. Edited by Namachieli
05/23/2012 10:42 am
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thanks.. I'll look later.
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