I had to google this, I didn't know what it was. Did you find this or buy it? How expensive are these to buy? Oh, and I was thinking, if you bought a fake of one of these, you'd be buying a fake fake.
Actually I bought some other coins from my brother and he through this and a bunch of other coin he's got mark as 'phoney'. As far as the value of these, I heard 30 to 40 bucks. Anyone else hear different? There's quite a historical value behind these. Counterfiet coins made in the US, where else beside America. Oh that's right 'China'.
LOL, I just did the same thing, I was like, "Hennings Nickel?" What the heck is that? I see. Interesting story...thanks for sharing!
There have been purported to be about 100.000 of the Henning nickels made. When the Secret Service seized the coins, it has been alleged that they were found to be so close in composition and weight that they were just released into circulation. The latter would account for the fact that many of them were found in circulation and I have talked to collectors that got them in change as kids back in the 1950's when most of them are believed to have circulated.
The government didn't seized that many finished coins and they would not have circulated them. The reason there are so many circulated coins is because Henning used to deposit rolls and rolls of nickels at the banks.
