1981 P NICKEL 5.30 GRAMS

need help come on guys...

 

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Just a normal circulated nickel.

 

but if that was the case it should weight less..dont you think?

 

It is struck on a planchet that was punched out of a Nickel stock sheet rolled a bit thicker than normal.
Slightly above tolerance.
Nothing really major. It will never make it on the cover of CoinWorld magazine.

 

need help come on guys...

Are ya starving for attention? If so, you might want to search this site for heavy or light weight planchets.

 

The normal weight of a nickel is 5g (+/- 0.194g) Your coin is only slightly more than 1/10th of a gram above tolerance. @paddyman98 gave you the most likely reason why.

 

Yep, they ran a little thick for a while
My heaviest CRH nickel is as seen

 

You might want to buy a set of calibration weights( standards) so you can see how much your balance is off. Just Taring the balance doesn't set it proper. Jim

 

I don’t think his scale is off. Just a thick blank.
Mine sure isn’t

 

hello im new.. is this coin worth something?

 

It's worth 1 cent.

 

Having searched a couple thousand pounds of nickels, and weighed a few hundred, there are many that are over/under by a little. Very few are off by more than .1 gram
Even with circulation they don’t vary much.
I pulled some from BU rolls for this test

 

No Salvador, your 1964 D cent is a 1 cent value