1942 nickel no mint.

Yes I have four I had found and one was given to me.

 

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Good luck finding other dates besides 1944. I look at every show every internet auction every dealer table I go to and I have never seen a different date though I know there were some made

 

I know from today's world view it might seem strange that he was counterfeiting Nickels, but back when he was doing it a nickel was worth about $0.50 - not exactly chump change when you make thousands of them. Plus I feel his goal was to advance to higher denominations like quarters and half dollars and that the nickel was just a test case to see how long it would take people to notice.

People looking in the river for his Nickels today would find nothing but rusted out pieces of garbage if they could even identify them which they probably could not

 

Ok. Humor me. I don't know much about coins but I do know my physics. Everything weighs the same whether it's submerged or not - even a sponge. I think what you're alluding to is the density, which is mass/volume. Submerging it will give a value for the volume by measuring how much water is displaced. The density of silver is 10.5 g/cm^3.

 

I was thinking it had something to do with the coin actually suspending in the water that made the calculation possible. I don’t have a scale like that otherwise I would give it a shot. I don’t know much about physics or coins but it’s on the internet so it must be true!! Haha

 

JCro , the 1944s are easy because of no mint mark over the dome. The others are more difficult, but sometimes can be identified by the R in the reverse motto. The right hand leg on the R will have what appears to be a hole in it, or it appears to form a loop.Others say it is the softness or mushiness of the reverse lettering that is the clue, though I can't tell that. Still others say that there are little dots, like pimples, in certain places on the upper legs of the Ms on the reverse.
I haven't looked at mine in years, perhaps I'll dig them out and give myself a refresher course.

Here's some info from another coin site, I hope the cut&paste works :
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Oh, I know all about them and LeRoy's story. Also that some have the "looped R" and some don't. I'm just saying I have never seen a different date in person, let alone one of every year he produced.

Here is a post I made here on cointalk about this very topic
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/opinions-on-my-self-designed-slides-please.309775/

 

Great post , JCro