Good afternoon! I have never seen a Henning nickel in person, only in pictures. Do I actually have one?! It weighs 5.3 grams Thanks!
Yes. The mushiness on both sides and the loop in the R in Pluribus. It should weigh heavy. This is the "real" deal.
It's genuine. One characteristic is a very faint die break showing from the dome of Monticello to US in Pluribus. Yours has that so it's a genuine specimen. Bruce
looks like one to me.. that blown out R and the die break from the S I'd say 99.9% likely you have a Henning Nice find!
The reason why I wondered is that it seems like people could take a genuine 1939 and slightly alter the "R" to look like a Henning. Altering the weight would prove difficult. Are there counterfeit Hennings?
I can't say "No" to counterfeits after all it IS a counterfeit but I haven't seen any, but I've been hunting one long enough to know one when i see one. Also while I can see the R being "tooled" adding that die crack is another story. I fairly positive it's a real counterfeit nickle but I doubt it's a counterfeit of the counterfeit
What really bugs me is that I have coin roll hunted for years and never knew about the Henning nickel until recently. Nickels have been a favorite of mine to go through. I hate to think of passing any up. To be clear, I bought this nickel and did not find it in the wild. However, I bought it quite cheaply.
The only things that ebay lister DIDN'T claim is that the nickel is: - a 1938 3-legged buffalo nickel - a 1913 Liberty 'V' nickel But seriously, claiming it's a war time nickel? Silver? Hennings?
well henning did make a wartime nickle... that's how he got caught he made a 1944 but forgot the "P" Mintmark (the 1942 no "p" nickle however is not a henning)
