I don't think this is the right place to ask this question (BUT) I will. I recently acquired a bunch of old rolled coins. All he wanted was what he would get at the bank. Now my question, all of the roles were 40s & 50s and AU to BU. Some of the 1958 are almost black in BU condition. can someone tell me what I have?
I see it as a nickel with a hit (look at the dent coming across I and B, and the damaged U) that just happened to deform the R into a shape sorta like the Henning loop. What's left doesn't really look that similar to me. But I guess the extra half a gram outweighs (sorry) that...
Thanks for the response but I'm still going with its a Henning.Coud it be damage?yes but I've looked at hundreds of 1946 nickels looking for one and none had this.So just a coincidental accident the so called(damage)is in the right spot.
Although I am no expert. I'll leave that to Jack D. Young with his great Coin Week articles. About a year ago I did a talk at our coin club meeting about the Henning Nickels and displayed examples of the defective R and the dot above the left side of Monticello. I enlarged the best pictures of your coin reverse and those of the best genuine Henning reverse and I would say your R is too straight on the right hand side of the R vertical bar and the suspected PMD goes too far up to the crossbar of the R. Your R is inconclusive to identify that nickel as a Henning due to PMD of the coin. In further research, I could not find any Henning nickel that weighs 5.5 grams. Scales can be wrong. Now one would have to identify a Henning nickel by the dots. One can also research this on the internet since there are many pictures of 1946 Henning nickels. Have you identified any dots, raised lumps on the coin? I would send the coin to ICG.
This could be it potty. The rim is what I was most focused on. Relative to my Henning, there is some similarity there.
A couple of things: The R is not the only diagnostic. There were several obverse and reverse dies, so folks should not be stuck on the R, a Missing P, the dot (like mine) or the crack. My advice is to do a proper vetting before giving up on a specimen. Also, the weight characteristic is also not a given. My specimen weighs 4.97grams. Pretty normal. My specimen though has seen lots of travel, so some weight has been worn off and some of the rough spots on the rim, worn away. My specimen displays the common extreme flow lines on the obverse, but many specimens for other years look more like their 'contemporary' peers. I recall when finding this specimen, I almost put it back into circulation since it looked pretty rough for the date. The reality, it started out pretty rough and got rougher with the miles it traveled over 50 years. It is pretty exciting to see another Henning plucked from the wild!!
Unfortunately NOT a Henning per my expert; just has coincidental damage near the right spot. A 1946 Henning image for reference: