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Edited by Silver Gorilla
05/01/2008 5:18 pm
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It looks similar to silver one.
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Though there is the possibility that it has been dipped!
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Unless the coin facts page is wrong, you cannot weigh them, since the regular and War Nickels are both 5 grams each. |
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the appearance between those two is certainly similar... If weight is the same, could there be another easy test?  While hardly definitive, do the wartime nickels have a different sound? Believe it or not--I can usually tell circulated silver from CuNi by smell. It's a fun "parlor trick" I play on people.  Edited by KurtS
05/01/2008 6:33 pm
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IMHO, the War Nickels have more of a THUD versus the familiar copper PING of the regular issue. |
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I think this was a Hard one for every one, As silence gives way to the Thread.....  |
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It has the look of a coin that has been chemically altered. It does not look to be silver. It looks like many nickels I find that have been in the fountains at malls or dug up by a metal detectorist.
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Bill
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Good to hear your view foundinrolls, chemically altered, No it doesn't look tampered with, Could not have been found in a fountain at malls or dug up by a metal detectorist, why Its very easy I'm a Metal Detectorist and I know what coins look like when dug up or even after long periods of time and even if they where cleaned that is, So that would leave it Impossible for it to be dug up. But If you can see the similarity's from the Yellow and dark Toning on both of them, Colors that blend with silver metal, together out of sequence. The progression is yellow then magenta, and on and on and on.  Thanks for your view, I would like to hear more from you and others. Edited by Silver Gorilla
05/02/2008 8:32 pm
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No jeremymh. I have not done that sort of stuff, or anything, to the coin. I don't think he was insinuating that you yourself dipped the coin. He was pointing out that the coin has been around 61 years, and a WHOLE LOT can happen in that time frame! Have you had the coin in your possession for 61 years? Did you get it uncirculated? If not, then it has had PLENTY of time to be chemically altered somehow, somewhere, sometime, in the last 6.1 decades. |
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ratio411 Good to hear from you, I don't know where you got the idea that Jeremymh, was insinuating me,, meaning that he was provoking gradual doubt, or making a suspicious suggestive, witch on your part trying to say that he was insinuating me and making remarks.... Nope not at all, we where having a good time chatting about what might be a Nickel Struck on a silver Planchet.
Well any way thanks for your View.
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I found a 1958D nickel that is whiter than that today. It actually looks like a 40% half in color.
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That coin to me looks like it was mercury dipped.
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Hi 1913-V Thanks for you view. Any way what would really happen if Nickel where to be dipped in Mercury..? wouldn't it look like it was polished right. But then again I could be (Going Nuts) I'm getting scared I'm starting to believe that this coin was is Struck on a silver planchet.
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No the mercury coins dont look polished they actually look like silver in a way. If the coin was a silver planchett it will not look like the 1943 at all. The coin will be alot whiter. I would advise to take the coin to a jeweler and have him or her do a metal test on it. But I really dont think its silver. Best thing to do is compare it with silver coins not a 1943.
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I already tested the coin I cant tell if there is any silver in the coin, but I did try to hear if they would sound different from each other, by thunging the coin one at a time, and ill tell ya they sound the same this would have to be dun by an Expert in Metals, that would place the coin in a sealed box of some-sort gadget and examine it with electric or electron devises but god knows what else they can do to spot or tell it was struck on a silver planchet, I do know this, Silver nickels are distinguished by a slightly different coloration than ordinary nickels, and this one really looks different from all the other nickels.
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