1946 silver planchet nickel

Wanna know if there's a value on this coin !!!

 

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What leads you to think that it is "silver planchet"?

 

I'd like to know, too!

Chris

 

Me three!

 

What does it weigh?

 

It doesn't have that same patina as the war nickels.
But, I hope I am wrong as that would be a great coin.
It just looks like a circulated 1946 that has been cleaned.

 

Both silver war nickels & the normal copper & nickel nickels weigh 5.00 grams so weight wouldn't help.

 

It would be very hard to figure out if that was a wartime plantchet.
Do you have a war nickel? Compare the sound of a war nickel to the sound of a regular nickel. Then try to see if the sound of the war nickel sounds the same as that 1946. Trying to thinking something else. I think silver coins, if you rub it with tissue paper, a little black tarnish should show up on the tissue paper

 

Or, if you cover a silver coin with a single thickness of tissue paper, the "shine" of the silver will show through.

 

Forgot about that one.

 

That works for 90% and 80% (the outer layers of a 40% silver-clad coin), but I doubt it'll work for a circulated war nickel. I'm not even sure it would work for one that's still BU.

 

I made the sound test with two 1943 war nickels in a granite surface and there is no difference. And the petina is similar to one of them. Any ideas on the value if it is the real thing ???

 

Only a few pieces (4 +) have been authenticated.
Yours does not look like this at all:
https://sullivannumismatics.com/coi...ional-struck-silver-war-nickel-planchet-vg-10

 

Sorry. It works for 90% quarters,halves, and dimes. I never tried looking for a 1946 silver plantchet so I was only guessing it would work.

 

I would think a specific gravity test would also be have potential. Or, take it to someone that has an XRF, and see what it reads, maybe a jeweler?

 

you forgot to add the no in the poll. Not saying there is no possibility but unless you have the right equipment or send it to a third party grader there's almost no way to tell. But chances are slim.

 

Gravity test wouldn't work cause regular nickel weighs the same as wartime nickel. Gravity test would work with a counterfeit wartime henning nickel.

 

Specific gravity measures density. That's different from weight... but is it the same thing in this case? Chemists and physicists help me out here.

Aren't there "die markers" to look for in all Hennings? I only know the missing "D" on the "44" (not sure if that counts as a "die marker" or not), and the "hole in the R" on at least one of the dates.

 

If the weight is the same and the dimensions are the same (same volume), the density would be the same because: density = weight/volume.

 

Thanks, @Kentucky.