1946 Silver Nickel?

Detecto, apparently you missed a word in Doug's post. Changes the entire meaning of the sentence.

 

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I know what it is and how it can come to be, I asked the value of one.

It seems likely that there would also be 1942 nickels of the regular alloy struck with the jumbo mintmark.

The 43 copper cents fetch a ton, but I suspect a 46 silver nickel would be worth far less ?

 

That topic is discussed here. It doesn't really list prices, but does say they exist.

 

I suspect that it would be in a similar price range as the 1965 silver Washington quarters. While no where near the value of the 1943 coppers, they still fetch a healthy sum. A nice example of a 65 silver would be in the $12K range.

 

It's kind of odd that that Henning guy could make such good fakes but screw up on the jumbo mintmark.

 

I'd think these transitional metal errors probably exist wherever possible.

I don't think Mint workers would really care about a planchet or two left in whatever containers they use, it's probably SOP to not worry about it , as the Mint is really a factory making widgets, but they are coins to us.

Maybe not a 1983 copper cent , since the containers should have had lots of use making 82 Zincolns.

I could certainly see a few 90% silver 1965 Kennedy halves being minted and never discovered and melted in 1980 or so. That coin would be tough to spot and bother to weigh to check it out. Maybe some are known ?

I know they tweaked the lincoln cent composition a bit a few times, like with the shell casing alloy....I can see a few of those being the wrong year and never found.

I suspect there might be 1864 IHC"s struck on the C/N planchet and on and on.

Many of these errors probably go undiscovered ?

 

I recently received a 1942 nickel in change that has the look of a warnickel ( I might still have it), but to me that error is impossible to have occurred.

 

Philly and San Fran both made war nicks in '42...

 

Sorry, I neglected to mention it doesn't have the big MM, so that doesn't seem possible to me....A silver planchet struck by the early year dies, but I can easily see a regular planchet struck with the huge MM dies. I'd be surprised if that error doesn't exist !

 

There's a known '42-D with the small MM that is the silver alloy. Ya never know.

 

The 42 Phillies were struck in both alloys.

 

well yes, but a funky looking 1942 p, small P, doesn't get me all hot and heavy. I may pull it out and look at it again , if I can find it....I think I tossed it aside.

 

Alright I finally figured it out and did a specific gravity test tonight on my 46 nickel the result i came up with is 8.33 then i did an sg test on my war nickel and that was 8.42. Now if im right a coin with 40% silver has an sg of 9.53. Does anyone know what the sg is a coin with 35% silver is

 

the same weight and same dimension should make the same density?

 

SG = 9.25 for the War Nickel.

 

The war nickel weighs 4.8 grams and the 46 nickel weighs 5 grams

 

Both weights are within the expected range for circulated coins.

Look, everybody, the OP isn't going to be able to tell anything by weighing the nickel, nor by doing SG tests. The density of the war-nickel alloy and the regular alloy are just too close. The only way to make sure is by (invasive) chemical tests, or by using one of those fancy ray-gun analyzers.

 

Or dropping onto a hard surface such as granite and listening to see if it sounds the same as a war nickel...

 

Sure. And then acid-test some of the metal that's left behind on the surface.

There's an obvious audible difference between 90% silver and clad coinage. Between the war-nickel alloy and cupronickel? I'm not convinced.

 

I did a drop test with the 46, a war nickel and an 85 nickel they all sounded the same