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I would have guessed the far right too, but the one in the middle had me wondering... thought you were putting 2 out of 3 as silver  also check out the link in my signature, some beautiful eye-candy there for war nickels  |
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Aslan - I was a little worried folks might be thinking I was throwing out a trick question. Here's another comparison -  I've collected 12-15 Wartime nickels from circulation over the years. Only the 43 pictured here was acquired at auction. But note the similarity in toning for the 1942 an the 1942 S in the picture. I'm still fooled that this isn't a silver nickel. All the other 42 nickels look like...nickels. Just this one boggles the eye. |
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I know it is weird when you see silver tarnish/tone in a NON-silver piece, I always run into late 60's dimes that look like they have the pale white tone on the face but are no doubt clad. My personal theory is that they were in heavy contact with silver early on and have just acquired a thin layer of silver powder enough to fool the eye. Probably totally wrong but heck it's just a theory. For the record my first impressions on the original image were... left to right 1. No doubt Cu-Ni 2. close but not quite right? weird what is that? 3. That is Silver! Plus the silver is a harder alloy and wears differently from a Cu-Ni. I can tell from ware sometimes more than tone. And a total on the 43, no question that one has not seen many pockets  |
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The funny thing about this nickel is that when I found it, 30+ years ago, I thought there was going to be a P on the back when I flipped it. I was shocked when I didn't find one. All these years later, I'm still looking at that nickel, more so than any other in my collection. I'm sure it's because of the "Huh?" factor; the coin is unremarkable otherwise. But I elected to stick that in my second nickel album over perhaps slightly better 42 Cu-Ni nickels I have (second albums for me are those I collect straight from circulation). Just something about that coin!! Weird it is ASLAN!!
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Nice find on the Henning. If you do a search on this forum for Henning nickel you will find a lot of information.
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Quote:Don't think that I have ever seen a 1944 nickel with no mint mark ? Are you sure there is no mint mark above the Monticello ? Thanks for the welcome denco7. I found out that I too have a Henning nickel because there's no MM above Monticello. I checked with a loop just to make sure the MM didn't get worn and there's nothing. Edited by RollNinja
02/01/2014 3:56 pm
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RollNinja, post a photo of your nickel and we can confirm for sure if it is a Henning.
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Got it. I didn't put the 2 posts together. Thanks.
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No problem! Thanks for offering to help.  |
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