Magnetic nickel

Discussion in 'Error Coins' started by Wendyru, Dec 8, 2019.

  1. Wendyru

    Wendyru New Member

    I'll try when I get home. I took a loupe and checked all around it, and the edge I didn't see anything. Thank you for helping me try to figure this out!
     
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  3. Wendyru

    Wendyru New Member

    That's magnetic?
     
  4. -jeffB

    -jeffB Greshams LEO Supporter

    It would be great if you could find a jewelry or cash-for-gold store that has an XRF analyzer. It's a machine that hits metal with X-rays and watches what comes off; it can give accurate percentage readings for every metal in the alloy, although only near the coin's surface. It might not pick up an iron core that was somehow inserted into the coin.
     
  5. Wendyru

    Wendyru New Member

    I tried several different magnets, not all were neodymium. It of course was a stronger hold with them. Everything I've read about his fake one's, was saying not magnetic and a different weight. But you know what reading on the internet can mean, so in no way saying that's impossible. Thank you!
     
  6. Wendyru

    Wendyru New Member

    My son had a toy truck that did that. Middle of the night, no batteries,it starts going off, and rolling across the floor. NOPE! Next day he asked where his truck was, hopefully the landfill by now!lol
     
  7. Wendyru

    Wendyru New Member

    Hmm...
    I'll ask around. No coin stores for min 35 miles, any direction. But some jewelry stores is different. Thanks for that tip!
     
  8. Wendyru

    Wendyru New Member

    Thank you everyone! I'm overwhelmed with the amount of comments I have received! I appreciate it very much. I was emailing someone, and they suggested a gravity test or something? Clearly I have no idea what they are speaking of. Is that another route I should try?
     
  9. -jeffB

    -jeffB Greshams LEO Supporter

    Specific gravity tests (measuring the coin's density, not its weight) are pretty hard to do accurately. You have to weigh the coin hanging in air, then hanging in water, with both measurements very precise.

    Even if you got a good specific-gravity measurement, I'm not sure what we'd do with it -- either it wouldn't match a normal war-nickel's specific gravity, in which case we don't know what your coin is made of, or it would match, but it's attracted to a magnet, so we still don't know what it's made of.
     
  10. Raizac

    Raizac Well-Known Member

    it's called a specific gravity test. and you will need a bowl of water and a strig. place the bowl of water on the scale and 0 out the scale. now take the string and tie it around the coin. holding the string and dip coin in the bowl of water. don't let it touch any side or bottom and must be fully underwater
    that is what specific gravity test there is some math with doing this and atm I cannot remember as my memory is bad
     
  11. Raizac

    Raizac Well-Known Member

    Testing My YPS Silver Bars and Others With Specific Gravity Test. look at thie video on utube if link is not here then copy and past in utube
     
  12. Mr. Flute

    Mr. Flute Well-Known Member

    My only explanation is that you've got a strong enough magnet to attract the 3 metal compound of the war nickel. The nickel looks genuine to me.
     
  13. Collecting Nut

    Collecting Nut Borderline Hoarder

    I believe you-it's haunted.
     
  14. Raizac

    Raizac Well-Known Member

    sorry for the bold lettering copied from utube
     
  15. Collecting Nut

    Collecting Nut Borderline Hoarder

    Yes. Not worth selling it though.
     
  16. Michael K

    Michael K Well-Known Member

    None of those are magnetic.

    4.68 is a bit light.
     
  17. Mr. Flute

    Mr. Flute Well-Known Member

    Fine.

    Then the OP is pulling our collective chain.

    Next.
     
  18. Beardigger

    Beardigger Well-Known Member

    There are 5 known years for Henning Nickels. (1943 is not one) HOWEVER.....Henning said he made 6 different Reverse Dies, so people believe there might still be an undiscovered Henning year. Henning Nickels are usually overweight, so I'm doubting your nickel is one of his. But you never know. Anyway, I doubt this mystery can be solved here.
     
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  19. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    The only thing I can come up with is going to need a SMALLER magnet to test. In Ye Olden Days there was a magic trick that used a magnet to pick up a coin to make it "disappear", and the way they rigged the coin was to drillinto the edge a put a steel pin into it. To check for that will take a careful examination of the edge or using a small magnet to check to see if the magnetic properties of the coin are the same all over or just in certain areas. The magnet you showed in the early picture covered the whole surface of the coin so it is too big.
     
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  20. -jeffB

    -jeffB Greshams LEO Supporter

    And for what it's worth, I did check a conventional war nickel (and a regular cupronickel one) against a strong hard-drive magnet. Neither was attracted at all. This is a magnet that's almost strong enough to float a graphite disc (graphite is diamagnetic).
     
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  21. Wendyru

    Wendyru New Member

    What?
     
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