War Nickel Mint Mark

I have been looking at a few war time nickels, and noticed that everyone of them have a mint mark including the P right? Wrong, i have a 1942 nickel that has no mint mark at all. Is this an error?

 

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In 1942 there were 2 types---The older type was made out of the normal metals and therefor didn't have the large mintmarks. The TY2 was made out of silver and therefor has the large Mintmark. If your coin is made out of silver then you could have either a grease filled die, an fake or maybe something else....how about a pic!?

Speedy

 

I thought it might be a Henning nickel at first, but it's probably not:

http://www.numismaticenquirer.com/TNE/Henning Counterfeit Nickel.html

The other possibilities is that you have a grease-filled die error (probably no premium unless it's MS), or the nickel is very worn and you just can't see the mint mark.

Also, aren't some 1942-dated nickels made from the normal composition while the rest were made with the new 'war time' alloy? I know they switched that the silver alloy midway through 1942...

 

well, it certainly isn't that worn that you cant see it.

 

Can you tell if it is made out of silver or nickel?

Speedy

 

how do i do that???

 

By posting a picture!

 

It is more than likely a 1942-P "Type I" Pre-War Jefferson Nickel!


Frank

 

the only 1942 Nickel that has a "P" on it would be the silver composition type - the mint mark is on the reverse above Monticello's dome. the cupro nickel composition nickel would have a mint mark on the obverse, but only if it were from Denver or San Francisco. Philadelphia minted cupro nickel nickels did not have mint marks until 1980.

as stated above, you have a pre silver composition nickel 1942 nickel minted in Philadelphia.

-steve

 

The reason for the large mintmark is so after the war the banks could take the silver nickels out of circulation.

 

And only if they were struck AFTER 1967. All the D and S coppernickel nickels before 1965 had the mintmark to the right hand side of Monticello.

 

did they ever attemp to take them out? i know that after the war they dumped the steel cents into the ocean.

 

Possible 1944-P no P Henning Nickel

On the Henning nickel - the one I have (1944-P no P) is unusual. The FIVE CENTS below Monticello is partially blurred/faint - five cENTS - where the lower cased letters are blurred/faint and the upper cased letters aren't, the first "o" in MONTICELLO is blurred/faint and the ending "s" in STATES is blurred/faint. Lastly, the P mint mark is missing and the coin isn't the silver alloy used during that time.

I didn't see anything about this on the website (

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) posted earlier on in this thread, so I figured I toss it in for discussion.

Ribbit,
Toad :smile

Ps: If someone will teach me how to post pictures and where to upload them for posting, I'll post pics of my nickel.

Ribbit - Ribbit - Ribbit

 

It sounds to me that its simply a Philadelphia minted type 1 1942 nickel. They minted over 42 million nickels with the original nickel composition (and no mint mark) before they began minting the silver type 2 nickels (with the large mint mark). So, chances are (99.999999% chance) its simply just a type 1 nickel.

 

Here are the pictures.

 

Pics

here's my second attempt at this.

Ribbit :smile

 

I guess you didn't read what I said? I clearly said it was a 1944! :hammer:

Ribbit :smile

 

I was refering to the first nickel in the post, I didn't see yours. I believe (and I could be mistaken) that one give away for the 1944 henning nickel (outside of the lack of P) is the R in "Pluribus" on the reverse has a loopish area on the left "leg" of the letter.

I couldn't find an image online...but something to this effect:



But, I could be wrong.

 

You mean here:

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The "R" on mine doesn't appear to be looped like they talk about there so I don't have a clue if my nickel is a Henning nickel or not but I do know it is interesting with all of the quirks it has because I haven't seen anything like it anywhere.

Ribbit :smile