1946 war nickel rare error

I'm actually pulling for you Vernice. May your pockets jingle!

Steve

 

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Looks like a normal nickel.
The war nickel planchets, especially one that circulated have a variety
of patinas. A smaller normal photo will work better. But it's about
100% that this is just a nickel.

 

The densities are quite different, Copper is 8.96 and silver is 10.5. Silver is almost 15% higher.

The last two pictures look like a regular copper nickel alloy five cent piece. If you really want to tell, find someone with an XRF gun and have them shoot it. If it is a war nickel planchet the results will make it clear.

 

I wish I had a silver war nic for every foreign coin I have pulled out of junk boxes thinking them to be silver but turned out to be cu/ni.

 

Most circulated war nickels have a very distinctive toning/patina due to the composition, and this differs from standard composition nickels. Your coin has all of the visual characteristics of a standard circulated nickel. It has none of the visual characteristics of a normally circulated war nickel.


I’m curious as to why you believe you may have beaten Lotto-type odds and found a transitional planchet error, particular when it has the visual characteristics of a standard 75Cu25Ni planchet? Are we missing something in your pics?

As others have said, a handheld XRF run by an experienced operator should be able to easily determine if it's a standard 75Cu25Ni composition

 

Because You Tube and mystery bank lady who knows everything.

 

The War ended in 1945.

 

There were some left over war nickel planchets that got minted accidentally
in 1946. This is not one of them.

 

I read that it is not a war nickle. The error is silver was left in the mold and several 1946 nickles got through and thats what makes them rare.

 

...close, but they don't use a mold for US coins, they are struck from planchets that are punched out of stock. The bins holding the planchets from 1945 might have had some silver blanks that got struck as 1946's. Welcome to CT

 

That's deff not a 1946 silver there are few out there tho

 

Think I found one

 

Did I find one

 

What is it about this nickel that makes you think it may be silver instead of the usual copper nickel composition?

 

I know this is an old thread that someone revived, but I'm guessing OP didn't get the results from NGC that he wanted.

 

But, . . . . . it's the internet . . . . . .

Z

 

Is there any way to LOCK the Error Coins forum to members who have less than 6 months tenure or 2,000 page views in that forum section?

Just sayin' . . . . . .

Yeah, I know, revenue from page views will plummet.

Maybe we could design an error "Quiz" that new members must pass to be given posting rights in Error Coins . . . . . . .

@paddyman98 ?

Z