is this war nickle fake?

i dont know. i am just trying to throw out a possible motive for faking a nickle. thats why i said "i imagine". as far as a counterfeiter(any counterfeiter, not just henning) not making dimes instead, maybe dime planchets were harder to come across? didnt henning use planchets from the same source as the mint? and his dies were not cast anyway, he engraved them, right? i have a silver test kit, but i dont think it will react to 35% anyway. i have never seen another us coin with with these "bubbles" all over it, obverse, reverse, field, and device.

 

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Your images get better and better riff. I'm just guessing that die damage caused this. Interesting coin. It looks too good to be a fake.

 

No Henning got his planchets from a supplier and they are not quite the same alloy that the Mint used. The mint made their own planchets. They had their own foundry and rolling mills.

Silver test kit quite possibly wouldn't work but a specific gravity test would. A copper nickel alloy would have an SG of about 8.92 while the war nickel alloy has an SG of 9.25

 

thanks. i figured out i could switch my camera to hi-def and still upload them to the site. before i could only upload 2.0mb files, and now up to 4mb.

 

ah. ok. for some reason i thought the other. im thinking that maybe some acid etched the die. small droplets are the only thing that would seem to fit. i dont think both die would get like this naturally at the same time. too weird.

 

You better be armed Yakpoo, it's not a very safe area of town.

Bruce

 

Dont know if it is fake or not but one time i was in my favorite coin and stamp shop and the owner pulled out a trade dollar, he then handed me his loupe. I examined it for a second or two then i handed back to him with a puzzled look and said nice trade dollar. He chuckled and then proceeded to tell me that it was sand casted Chinese fake. I examined the coin once more as he explained to me about the ruff surface and crude design anyhow i was amazed at how quickly i assumed it was real.