I just read that there was a 1943 wartime Nickle produced on a copper planchet instead of a silver planchet. This isn't in the best of shape but I was wondering if this could be one of those Nickles? It has copper blistering on the Obverse of the coin and a few minor spots on the reverse. Any thought would be appreciated. Thanks
Looks like an extremely messy up war nickel to me not struck on a copper planchet still $1 of silver.
They only contained 35% silver. Environmental Exposure damage will expose the copper. I've metal detected silver war nickels with the same issue.
They did tons of experiments during ww2 including coins.The war nickel and steel cents both have wrong composition errors etc known.Most of them were destroyed but some made it out and saved.
Interesting and as most indicated, likely just PMD, but you could always send it to someone to verify, for a small fee.
As tools wear, there is some level of transfer to the planchet. Trace amounts but when oils used in manufacturing run low/out, more transfer. I don’t think that’s what we are looking at here with your specimen. I agree that something along the lines of what our fellow enthusiasts have offered are a more probable cause.
