1946 war nickel rare error

Clawcoins, thanks for the reply, I will give it a good watch to see what happens here, maybe I would end up being the worst one here.

 

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Good luck, If you feel Ok doing it, could you ask what test(s) they will do to determine it. I would like to know for my own knowledge. Thanks Jim

 

It's unlikely to be a silver planchet, but there's no way to be 100%, unless you analyze the metal content. If it were on a silver planchet that would be incredible.
The odds are against that. From the OP photo it just looks like environmental damage which has oxidized and discolored the metal. It doesn't look very much like a war nickel to me.
Here are some nickels I got today detecting. You can see the ones that were in the ground have changed color.

 

atcarroll, I can understand that, I will keep an open mind, Thank you. Terry

 

Yes, all joking aside, it doesn't appear to be a silver planchett to me either.

 

Cheech9712, well I don't know how they could do any better than that. Thanks

 

Thanks john, i will keep an open mind. And your right my skin is getting a little thin, I think that comes with age.

 

Don't worry it takes a lot to get me bent out of shape. Also I sell gold and silver for a living and I do know a little bit about it I was the first one to dismiss the thought of this being such a rare coin but out of curiosity I have done quite a bit of research as well as shown it to everyone I know in the rare coin world and the biggest guys in the country agree that this very well could be something very rare and I know that the odds of getting this coin from Burger King are about the same as winning the lottery ten times in a row but the more research I did and the more experts of rare coins I show it too it really is just something that everyone has agree that it might be real and really there is nothing else that I can find anywhere to say that it resembles so I am going to have to follow the advice of the multiple rare coin experts and take it to ngc considering I have very little risk to reward and my ROI has huge upside potential. But I only posted this to get the opinion of people who could possibly know something about the subject but I feel like most people on here are your tipical people who speak on a subject and give their opinion as advise on a subject that they probably have no real knowledge of but that's really what I assumed would happen anyway so it's not really anything that changes my plan here but I must say that I was hoping to be able to find at least one person on here that could give advice based on facts and knowledge learned through experience but I must say that I feel like instead I was given advice in the form of the opinions of haters I was told long ago by a very successful man when I was a young man that I should never give someone advice if I wasn't 100% sure that it was right and I would be doing them a disservice to give inaccurate advice just because I feel like I should say something I will let the guy at Ngc tell me what I found but I do appreciate your input on the subject and I will let you know what they say it is

 

I don't know these look similar to the coin I have

 

Looks like a worn, somewhat environmentally affected coin. I hope for your sake it is what you think it is. But I am 99.99999999% sure it is not. If you do take it to NGC I hope you post the results here be they positive or negative. Most of the time when someone says they have "the" coin and we all know it isn't, they tell us they will come back and prove us wrong. I have been on this thread for 5 or 6 years and not once have I seen anyone come back to prove us wrong. Again, for your sake, I hope we are wrong. Just highly doubtful.

 

I’ve used EDS frequently for a quick look at elemental compositions of inorganics and it’s relatively simple. For something like the OPs coin, a 50-100x mag will give a relatively large surface. In this case, you’re only looking for Mn, Ag, and/or Ni peaks. I’m not a metallurgist but I’m guessing that the war time alloy primarily forms a solid solution(s) so the surface should be reasonable representative at this scale. Sample prep is simple since the coin is conductive. It will probably take almost as long to pull a vacuum as it does to do the analysis.

XRF on Lab equipment would be easy as well. I am not against handheld XRF devices, but I would want to make sure that the operator is experienced and knows something about how it works and its limitations. Just because you buy a Ferrari doesn’t mean you know how to drive it at 200mph.

BTW: For readers who aren’t familiar with SEM/EDS or XRF. These analytical techniques only provide information about the surface. They DO NOT tell you anything about what’s more than 10-20 microns below the surface (That’s less than a thousandth of an inch)