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LinkBack Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes 03-08-2009, 09:09 PM   #1 (permalink) animal8526 Junior Member   Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 3 was there a 1939 Henning nickel? if there was, how could it be identified, and how much are they worth?   03-08-2009, 09:39 PM   #2 (permalink) borgovan Supporter**   Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Michigan Posts: 1,844 I haven't heard of a 1939 Henning, but I can't say I know them all. You can look for the tell-tale loop in the R in the word "PLURIBUS." I have heard that the planchets are a different weight, in fact, that was on another thread on this site that I haven't gone back to yet. It's possible the weight is different. How much? If it's an undiscovered date, could be a lot. I see "regular" Henning nickels trade in the $20 range.   03-08-2009, 09:46 PM   #3 (permalink) animal8526 Junior Member   Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 3 thanks for the info. would any metallurgic dissimularities possibly cause any odd aging characteristics?   03-08-2009, 10:10 PM   #4 (permalink) LSM Collector     Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: southwest florida Posts: 1,370 My Mood: Here's the dates for the Henning nickles: 1939, 1944, 1946, 1947 and 1953. I never read of any odd aging characteristics on a Henning nickle. Lou   03-08-2009, 10:24 PM   #5 (permalink) animal8526 Junior Member   Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 3 Quote: Originally Posted by LSM Here's the dates for the Henning nickles: 1939, 1944, 1946, 1947 and 1953. I never read of any odd aging characteristics on a Henning nickle. Lou what would the henning 1939 have for a mint mark?   03-08-2009, 10:27 PM   #6 (permalink) LSM Collector     Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: southwest florida Posts: 1,370 My Mood: No mint mark on any of dates. Lou   03-08-2009, 10:52 PM   #7 (permalink) Pyrbob Member   Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: York, PA Posts: 140 Here is my 1939 Henning Nickel. Sorry the photos are not very good. I'll have to take better ones. The hole in the vertical leg of R in PLURIBUS was the key to finding this one. I have 23 Henning nickels from 1944 and all have standard weights so weight doesn't help. So far this is the only date I have other than 1944. Attached Thumbnails       03-08-2009, 10:53 PM   #8 (permalink) HAGOP Powzik     Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Lebanon Posts: 312 My Mood: what r henning nickels?   03-08-2009, 10:54 PM   #9 (permalink) Pyrbob Member   Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: York, PA Posts: 140 Guess I also should have rotated the photos. Sorry, I didn't see that until after I sent them. Now you will have to turn your monitor over.   03-08-2009, 10:58 PM   #10 (permalink) Pyrbob Member   Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: York, PA Posts: 140 Henning nickels are counterfeit nickels made in the 1950's by Francis Henning. He was caught because one of the dates he used was 1944 but he used a non wartime reverse with it and made it from the regular alloy instead of the wartime silver alloy. So they are also referred to as 1944 no P nickels.   03-08-2009, 11:02 PM   #11 (permalink) LSM Collector     Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: southwest florida Posts: 1,370 My Mood: HAGOP, here's a Henning nickel discription. http://www.numismaticenquirer.com/TN...%20Nickel.html Lou   03-09-2009, 11:00 AM   #12 (permalink) CamaroDMD Dental Student     Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Oregon Posts: 5,874 My Mood: Isn't there some story that Henning dumped a whole bunch of his nickels in a river somewhere? __________________ The Truth About "O" Mint Morgan Dollars   03-09-2009, 09:36 PM   #13 (permalink) Pyrbob Member   Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: York, PA Posts: 140 Yes, Henning lived in Erial, NJ and claimed to have dumped an estimated 200,000 nickels and some of his dies into the Cooper Creek before he fled to Cleveland Ohio which is where he was caught. An estimated 100,000 nickels reached circulation and by 1971 less than 1000 had been sent to or confiscated by the secret service. This information can be found in the booklet "The Counterfeit 1944 Jefferson Nickel" by Dwight Stuckey copywrite from 1982.   Bookmarks Digg del.icio.us StumbleUpon Google Would you like to support CoinTalk? Coin Talk Code of Honor 1. Post unto others as you would have them post unto you. 2. Keep it clean, like a 1950s family television show. 3. 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