42 War Nickel Question

Look at the first line of post # 17 again. Gotchya? Really?

You turned it into more than what it was.

 

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All of the War nickels from 42-45 have the mint mark on the reverse, above the dome of Monticello.

The 42 nickels without any mint mark are Philadelphia strikes, and Denver struck some NON SILVER 42s and the mint mark is to the right of Monticello.

 

Nickels are not clad!

 

lmao

 

.75 copper, and .25 nickel is what I meant when I said clad, as in not silver.

 

Do you really want newbies posting every nickel they find arguing that it MUST be silver because they don't see copper around the edge?

 

You know, I always wondered that. If nickels have the same composition as clad coins, WTF did we make clad coins? Why go through the effort of making clad strip? Is there a difference in electrical conductivity of clad versus nickels, to me they don't appear a different color.

Anyone know?

Btw, as to the argument, Rick is right since no nickel is clad, just the same composition as clad. No biggie though, no need to get grumpy.

 

I'm not grumpy at all.

Rick, go back re-read post #22, I changed it just for you.

 

Well I went through the entire collection, all the 42s had a P or S on the back above the Monitcello.

 

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If you had the red book you could have opened it and figured that out in about 30 seconds. Did the seller give you some reason to think they weren't listing what they said they were listing? I have no idea why people think that everyone on ebay is out to screw them, I imagine some are, but it's likely most aren't. I have a few war nickels listed for slightly under melt. Everyone seems to go to ebay like it's a yard sale where they'll get everything they want brand new or uncirculated for a nickel, good luck with that opportunistics (wasn't talking about you op, valid question without the book).

 

Yeah no, I knew what I was getting, it's just I have seen a lot of people with feedback where they sell silver coins, and then act like they are selling 90 percent and the buyer gets 35/40 percents becuase of misleading the customer. I see that happen all the time. Anyway honestly I wouldnt have even second guessed it in the first place had it not been such an extremely large large amount of nickles, and I got it for really cheap compared to melt (especially since I see most 35/40percent going above melt right now) so I figured I missed something in the listing that other buyers noticed, however that wasn't that case at all.

 

I wish I could help you go through them.
I'm just curious, are you stocking up on silver coins because of the doomsday thing or do you just like the silver coins for investment or collecting? I saw a guy on the pawn show at a friends house the other day with loads of silver, I think he got over a hundred grand for it, bars, coins, all that stuff. I kept thinking, isn't that guy going to kick himself when the dollar becomes worthless. I would have loved to look at all of those coins.

 

Lots of reasons really, mainly, when I was a kid my grand-dad gave me bit of silver here and there, coins, rounds, bars, it’s basically all I got for birthdays and stuff, and I always liked it, if I threw a fit I'm sure he would have got me typical kid stuff, but I've always liked silver and admired his collection, as well as my father’s but that’s a different story. Then as I finally got to the age where I had my own job and what not silver sky rocketed and I couldn't collect it really on my own, it bummed me out. Now that it's going down again I'm collecting it. Sure there is always the fact that it could be a great investment, and that’s debatable anyway, in 40 years or something maybe it will be worth quite a bit, but I'm not purposefully collecting it to profit. I guess you could say yeah, I just really liked silver as a kid and never grew out of it.