Henning Experts Needed. Possibly Have Found The 6th Date

Glad to hear it.




Because they weren't made in 64. Is it possible he made new fakes after prison. Yes. The chance, 0.00001%. When you mess with money big brother turns his eye on you for the rest of your life. He wouldn't be stupid enough to attempt it a second time.

But, if you insist.




That's not how hubbing works. You can't overhub a die without it turning out like either the 1943/2 Jefferson or 1942/1 Merc dime.


Possible? Yes. Probable? No.




That looks like a scratch to me.




Those have die cracks and polish lines which are raised, yours is incuse.

Beyond that your coin is littered with gashes and gouges. And has heavy corrosion

I'm on the non Henning wagon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_counterfeiting
http://www.error-ref.com/henning-co...feit-nickel/
https://www.coincommunity.com/forum...PIC_ID=53117
John1

The FBI confiscated everything that Henning had not dumped in a river to hide the evidence.

Henning wanted his coins to slip anonymously into circulation, not stand out by carrying a date a dozen years in the future!

I feel like we need at least one good Back To The Future meme in this topic....

Henning Started on dollar bills and got busted. he moved to nickels as a test to see if he would get caught doing it, but even he said himself it was costing him 3-1/2cents to make a nickel. When he was caught, the feds seized 10 cent, 25 cent, 50 cent dies, as well as $5.00 plates that he had in his possession.
Henning was arrested in 1955 in Cleveland and pleaded guilty to counterfeiting nickels. He was sentenced to three years in jail with a $5,000 fine. Another three years were tacked on to his sentence for previously counterfeiting $5 bills.

Also, I think he did one year, got a funny look at some banks, and then made a few other years to mix up his deposits instead of entire bags of the same dates.

he wasn't buying a newspaper or something, and directly placing them in circulation, he was cashing them into banks in bulk and hoping to get over on the banks $10 $20-$50 in a pop, so likely all his dates were made around the same time and after trying for larger denominations and finding that nickels were a safer bet, finding banks asked, "why do you have so many all the same date?"

As he told it, he lost money doing it because he never did it long enough to recover his costs before he got caught. No idea what he did after getting out, but I seriously doubt he took another shot at it considering each time he LOST in the endeavor. The counterfeit $1 bills he was caught immediately, dime, quarter and half he would have been caught had he not used silver, which is why he settled on nickels, and also why he didn't do a $5 because he got busted on the $1.

if you take him at his word, he was getting the blanks from the same place the mint did, for 3.5 cents each, then all his labor for each one and profit were 1.5 cents and would take forever to make up the thousands spent to mass produce them and start turning them into banks just to recover his money.

I doubt he went back to it after getting out of jail just wasn't worth the effort. his seized coin blanks were recycled and used by the mint in 1956 after adding in the required amount of nickel to the mix. Henning's nickels were struck from Monel metal, 79.1% copper, 20.5% nickel, 0.4% iron

According to the mint there's are made of Cupro-Nickel: 25% Ni, Balance Cu

so, metal testing should indicate the presence of iron in a Henning Nickel example as well as a lower amount of nickel than is Mint specifications. and the weight should be off also to a degrebut not necessarily.

No idea what he did after getting out, but I doubt he went back to counterfeiting, he was really bad at it and got caught before he could even make any money doing it.

Possibly the 6th die pair he never used and was captured by the government with everything else when he got arrested which is why it's said to exist, much like a dime a quarter and a half. his dies existed, not sure if the coins do.

Anyways.

Nice write-up Big-Kingdom, and nice stuff from others too. Interesting and educational thread.