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Pillar of the Community
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Is $25 a roll for avg War Nickels a good price, or do you think I have room to talk that down a bit? |
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Pillar of the Community
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Right now melt is 29.20 for 40 nickels. Not a bad price. I would take em.
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Bedrock of the Community
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You can't call them a nickel because they don't contain any nickel  |
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Isn't " War Nickel" like saying "fool's gold" or something like that?  |
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The composition of War Nickels (42-45) was changed to redirect critical materials (primarily Nickel) for the war-effort. Silver "War" nickels were produced by the United States from mid-1942* through 1945. The coins were manufactured from 56% copper, 35% silver and 9% manganese. This allowed the saved nickel metal to be shifted to industrial production of miltary supplies during World War II.
Silver nickels are distinguised by a slightly different coloration than ordinary nickels and by the appearance of a large mintmark above Monticello's dome on the reverse side of the coin. The marks are "S" for the San Fransico mint, "D" for the Denver mint and "P' to indicate production at the Philadelphia mint, being the first coin to feature the Philadelphia intial, as no mint mark was the usual designation for Philadelphia mintage before 1979.
* Note that some 1942 nickels were produced without silver content. These will have a small "D" or "S" mint mark to the right of Monticello on the reverse or in the case of Philadelphia minted coins, no mint mark at all.
http://warnickels.com/ |
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OH BROTHER ![/b] ...  .....This sounds [b]REDICULOUSLY close to the "Penny" vs. "Cent" arguement !!...... 
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I would buy them since they are below melt. Down the road, this could be a huge bargain as silver goes up in value, and there is none to be found.
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Quote:The composition of War Nickels (42-45) was changed to redirect critical materials (primarily Nickel) for the war-effort. Exactly! They have no nickel in them! Quote:
OH BROTHER ! ........This sounds REDICULOUSLY close to the "Penny" vs. "Cent" arguement ! And just like that, this is all in fun!  |
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OH BROTHER ! ........This sounds REDICULOUSLY close to the "Penny" vs. "Cent" argument !...... It may be borderline Koala vs Koala Bear argument. |
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OH BROTHER ! ........This sounds REDICULOUSLY close to the "Penny" vs. "Cent" arguement !...... Fanning the flames.... cent dime (from latin decima tenth part) Quarter (dollar) fifty cents, half dollar since nickel refers to the composition of the coin and there are 3 cent nickles, would lead me to call it a 5 cent piece |
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Koala vs Koala Bear argument. Now that was a fun conversation!  |
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Further fanning the flames...
I always thought the root of the word dime was not decima, rather disme from Simon Stevin's paper 'De Thiende'. But I haven't read extensively on the subject and can definitely be wrong.
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Quote:The composition of War Nickels (42-45) was changed to redirect critical materials (primarily Nickel) for the war-effort I read somewhere that it might actually have been prompted more for the propaganda than by a need to save nickel for armour. Anybody know anything about that? Jan Edited by janknez
03/07/2009 11:34 am
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I read somewhere that it might actually have been prompted more for the propaganda than by a need to save nickel for armour. Don't know about propaganda, but the silver replacement was chosen so that the general composition would not effect existing coin operated machinery i.e. telephones and vending machines. When's the last time you saw a telephone booth? BTW, $25 a roll is a good price |
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Edited by nod2003
03/07/2009 2:21 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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oh yeah, one of the quarters was a 1932
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Posted 03/05/2009 5:08 pm
