I944 war nickle more then 35%?

Ok theres few more pics...
I no it might not be true just be awsome if it was..
So I need a scale or a metal scanner thing those are only was to tell yes?

 

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Sorry guys I'm new to this I posted way to many pics accidently lol

 

I dont; think that would be easy, wear,nickle content +5-5 percent. very small numbers

 

It does look very silvery, but nickles tend to be like that. In 1823 a German competition was held to perfect the production process: the goal was to develop an alloy that possessed the closest visual similarity to silver. The brothers Henniger in Berlin and Ernst August Geitner in Schneeberg independently achieved this goal. The manufacturer Berndorf named the trademark brand Alpacca, which became widely known in northern Europe for nickel silver. In 1830 the German process of manufacture was introduced into England, while exports of paktong from China gradually stopped. In 1832, a form of German silver was also developed

 

A local jeweler could weigh it but...looks ground found then silver polished.

 

what if you rub it on white paper and compare the transfer to another similar year?nevermind I just triedit . I see no difference

 

No. Improperly cleaned/ polished.
Silver value only. 35% silver.

 

Silver thermal conductivity test, two coins, subject and base line. both room temperature each placed on an ice cube, silver will melt through faster???

 

What if you just bit the bullet and sent it to pcgs, could they confirm?

 

It's polished. War nickels are the same color as regular nickels when they're uncirculated, but they tone to that ugly green color we're used to seeing. Polish them or dip them, and they're back to this color.

Your coin has obvious surface issues. I'll bet someone either polished it or chemically cleaned it.

 

I didnt want to shoot him down but it looks like it sat in acid for a little while.

 

I'd like to help him find a way to prove or confirm though.

 

Weight won't do it, unless it's significantly heavier than 5 grams, which is extremely unlikely. An XRF analyzer would, but those are still expensive enough (more than $10000) that it can be hard to get the use of one.

 

I voted for "?". It's a no-brainer.

 

Specific gravity would be a good test. A copper nickel coin has a SG of 8.92 a war nickel is 9.25 to 9.32. If the silver contentwas higher the SG will be as well.

 

I say polished and maybe some other type of acid or cleaning solvent.

 

Yeah but I've cleaned hundreds of war nickles and not 1 ever came close to looking how silver that one does.....it just screams silver more then any war nickle I've had and I have thousands cleand!

 

I also have a mint state war nickle that's awsome man....but my coin still looks way more silver then even this coin idk why I have thousands of war nickles half them cleaned the same way I did that one...in all my other nickles basically look the same this one screams silver idk why

 

Me too...cause I cleaned thousands of war nickle and not one looks silver like that hmm