Hi everyone,
I'm fairly new to coin collecting. I have some coin books from my mom when she passed. The nickel book has a few
War Nickels and the dime book has a few that are silver and there are also 8 or 9 silver halves but not much else except for the 100 or so bicentennial quarters they she. I started collecting the
State Quarters back in 1999 from pocket change but never bought rolls to search. I still have not finished those books.
Lately I have been watching tons of you tube videos of people searching box after box of pennies and nickels looking for wheat cents and pre-1960 nickels. I did my research on coin acronyms (DDO,
LMC,
PMD, etc.) and what to look for and even bought a
Red Book which arrived yesterday.
I thought it looked fun so I decided to try my hand at coin roll hunting. Last Friday I went down to the local bank and bought my first ever 10 rolls of pennies and 5 rolls of nickels. I started opening the pennies and was excited to find a few 2009 bicentennial backs and 2 wheat cents. I opened the 5 rolls of nickels and found 4 that were pre-1960. Pretty cool.
On Monday I went to the local credit union and bought 10 rolls of pennies and 10 rolls of nickels.
The penny rolls were customer wrapped and had the initials LM on them. I'm going to find something good in customer wrapped rolls, right? Wrong. I opened the first five rolls and knew something was up when the oldest date was 1983 and each roll had one Canadian cent. I ended up finding two 2009 tribute cents, nothing older than 1983 and exactly 10 Canadian cents. I guess the initials on the rolls meant Lincoln Memorial.
Next, I started opening the nickels. I found several 2004 and 2005 Westward Journey nickels. Not really worth saving but to me as a new collector they are unique. I found 2 nickels in the 1950's and one from 1947. Pretty good for 10 rolls. The 1947 looked weird because it had this funny looking crack on the obverse and you can see it on the last A in America on the reverse. Here is the coin.
I started doing an Internet search for die cracks to see if there were any coins worth money which lead me to a few articles talking about delamination and that it's a mint error and was common for 40's era coins but not really that valuable. I searched for 1947 die crack nickel and found some articles on Henning nickels. I looked for the loop in the 'R' but this nickel doesn't have it. One article says the 1947 is supposed to weigh 5.3g. This one weighs 5.26g. A 1947 that mom put in an album in the 80's weighs 4.86g and has been out of circulation for almost 40 years. If you search for "1947 lamination" on this site you will find some coins that have cracks in different spots. It would be interesting to know the weight of those coins.
There is a post by VTLF (only 8 posts) on 2/24/2016 talking about the 1947.
http://goccf.com/t/254091&whichpage=2It reads:
Quote:
The best has great "luster" (no cartwheel effect but fresh surfaces with slight rub on the high points.) The worst has a major die defect under Jefferson's chin - not a clean die break but obviously something was missing from the die as there is lots of extra metal. One has a badly deteriorated area under Jefferson's chin.
That's what this nickel has.
There are other posts from pyrbob (the expert) that talks about uneven ware. If you look at the first photo of this post you can see uneven ware on the left side of the coin. He talks about the letters looking soft and the fields flowing into the letters like the image below. The next photos compare the suspected henning on the left and a regular 1947 that was in one of my mom's old coin books.
Below are up close photos comparing the two coins with the suspected henning on the left.
Change my mind. Did if find a henning searching only 15 rolls of nickels?
Posted 03/16/2022 9:14 pm
Uncirculated American Silver Eagles 
