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<p>[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2957980, member: 71723"]Okay. Like all nickels, other than 1942-1945, its composition is 75% copper and 25% nickel, unsandwiched. It is a uniform alloy all the way through.</p><p><br /></p><p>The two reverses are the so-called Reverse of 1938, and the Reverse of 1940. It can be difficult to discern which you have on a heavily circulated piece. The steps on Monticello are just "crisper" or less mushy on the Reverse of 1940. Regardless, if yours does NOT have a mintmark at the right of Monticello (D or S), look carefully with a good glass at the letters "MONTICELLO" and "FIVE CENTS". In the somewhat unlikely event they are doubled/blurred, you have a neat error.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2957980, member: 71723"]Okay. Like all nickels, other than 1942-1945, its composition is 75% copper and 25% nickel, unsandwiched. It is a uniform alloy all the way through. The two reverses are the so-called Reverse of 1938, and the Reverse of 1940. It can be difficult to discern which you have on a heavily circulated piece. The steps on Monticello are just "crisper" or less mushy on the Reverse of 1940. Regardless, if yours does NOT have a mintmark at the right of Monticello (D or S), look carefully with a good glass at the letters "MONTICELLO" and "FIVE CENTS". In the somewhat unlikely event they are doubled/blurred, you have a neat error.[/QUOTE]
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