Posted 09/24/2013 4:21 pm
The SBA dollars were issued for circulation in 1979, 80, and 99. In 1981 they were produced for collector sets only. The 79 and 80 were produced at all three mints, the 99 at P and D mints obly. it is usually a bit of a treat for a collector to find a S mint coin in circulation but with a mintage of 109 million the 79 S SBA is one of the easier ones to find.
The 1943 P nickel is what is called a " War Nickel". Beginning in 1942 and continuing through 1945 the nickel contained no Nickel. Nickel was needed for the war effort so it was removed from the five cent coin and the alloy was made up of 35% silver 56% copper and 9% manganese. (two War Nickels had 50% more silver in them than a silver dime.) To indicate this metal change the mintmark was changed from being a tiny letter to the right of Monticello, to a very large letter over the dome. And for the first time a coin from the Philadelphia mint used the P mintmark. (after the War Nickels that would not happen again until the 1979 P SBA dollar.) It was also believed that the large mintmark would make it easy to sort out the silver nickels later it they decided to recover them for the silver. The 1943 P is a common date, but your coin is much nicer than the typical piece recovered from circulation today. There are at least two valuable die varieties found on the 1943 P, but I do not see evidence of either of them on your coin.
The 1943 P nickel is what is called a " War Nickel". Beginning in 1942 and continuing through 1945 the nickel contained no Nickel. Nickel was needed for the war effort so it was removed from the five cent coin and the alloy was made up of 35% silver 56% copper and 9% manganese. (two War Nickels had 50% more silver in them than a silver dime.) To indicate this metal change the mintmark was changed from being a tiny letter to the right of Monticello, to a very large letter over the dome. And for the first time a coin from the Philadelphia mint used the P mintmark. (after the War Nickels that would not happen again until the 1979 P SBA dollar.) It was also believed that the large mintmark would make it easy to sort out the silver nickels later it they decided to recover them for the silver. The 1943 P is a common date, but your coin is much nicer than the typical piece recovered from circulation today. There are at least two valuable die varieties found on the 1943 P, but I do not see evidence of either of them on your coin.
Edited by Conder101
09/24/2013 4:24 pm
09/24/2013 4:24 pm
, hahaha..Great deal you made there with the gas man..War Nickels are about 1 or 2 a $100 Dollar Bank box,,so that is good too,,,u got that one..Cosmos
They are worth more.
