Upgrade day! 20-cent piece

Picked this nice little fellow up today to replace my heavily cleaned 20-center. This one has also, seemingly, been cleaned but it's nothing like the steel wool treatment on the previous coin.

One lucky thing about this upgrade is that it's the MPD and S/S variety, not that it makes very much of a difference in the grand scheme of things. It's just getting slotted into my 7070 and resting there until a better replacement shows itself.


Also, what's up with this funky war nickel? There's no mintmark on it and the "R" in PLURIBUS has some strange loop in it.

 

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Nice upgrade on the 20 cent piece.

The nickel looks like it could be a Hennings nickel counterfeit.

Calling @JCro57

 

That's quite the Henning nickel you got there! No mint mark is an indicator of it.

As for the 20 cent piece, that's a nice upgrade! That went from about a cleaned F to a possible UNC. Not sure if the upgrade is problem-free but it's otherwise a beautiful coin.

 

Very nice upgrade. Congratulations.

 

Thanks! I was kinda hinting at that counterfeit, sorry if I led anybody on. Funny quick little story about that... he had two Hennings there, but this was the one with the looped R. The other was also a '44 but no loop, and it looked a little bit worse for wear. Better to have them off the streets and out of circulation. That way people don't try to pay for their groceries with counterfeit money! (?)

 

Holy Henning!! Who's Henning anyways??
Nice coin to fill that hole as they say.

 

Here Sal....
Henning Nickel
LOLOL!!

 

That'd be the only counterfeit money I'd take..... that'd turn 5 cents into anywhere from $175 to $350. Check Ebay sold comps, those are crazy numbers for a counterfeit. Even more than the 1896, 1900, and 1902 Micro O Morgans.

 

I've got a counterfeit 1899 Morgan, too... somewhere around here lol!

 

Is it silver? I've got a counterfeit 1902-O to match, sadly mine is about 17 grams. Even counterfeit are worth melt.

 

I'm not sure on the composition. It was around 20 grams when I weighed it but never had it scanned.

 

That's actually cool. Believe it or not, out of all the "tribute proofs" out there, I find a bit of aura in owning a real counterfeit coin. Here's my counterfeit 1902. May have been made around the same time the Red Book underneath it was (1962).

 

I would like to add a Henning nickel to my collection.

 

He's still got one left! He was going to be listing it on ebay along with another couple hundred other lots, so he may be willing to ship it to you (outside of ebay) if you're not in the area.

 

I found a 1944 Henning in a bag of 200 nickels I bought from a dealer who was retiring and closing the chop. It is the nonlooped R type.

In case you did not know, all the Henning nickels look well circulated. He made them that way so as not to bring attention to them. And since they circulated I supposed you can find them in poor grades as well.

 

That's a beautiful upgrade. If it really has been cleaned, it's sure acceptable to me! I got a kick out of your coy addition of the Henning. I'm guessing there must be counterfeits of the counterfeit too, given how expensive they are.

 

Found my 1899. I buried it in a place I wouldn't accidentally stumble upon it and bring it back to the coin shop to sell to him lol!

 

I've been after a henning for years.. I've no doubt that is one. and unlike a fake morgan the henning is worth some bucks Also very nice upgrade on the 20 cent piece.. I've been after that one recently myself

 

And because I can't let a counterfeit Morgan outshine the real deal... vam-6

 

I've been searching my change routinely to no avail. So I took the easy way out and just bought it lol!

The Morgan (the fake one) pings like silver so maybe there's some tangible value to it? I dunno, I just think it's neat to have a fake one. And it was gifted to me by the LCS owner, so I'm not losing anything just by keeping it