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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 3453739, member: 101855"]If you look at the War Nickel section of the "Red Book," you will see a notation that "1944 nickels without a mint mark are counterfeits." This notation has been in editions of the "Red Book" for a long time with no further information about the fake. Here is an example of the "Henning Nickel" Two of the diagnostics are the die break ("flagpole") above the dome and the "hole" in the letter "R" in "PLURIBUS." [ATTACH=full]918119[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]918121[/ATTACH] Henning also made fake nickels dated 1939, 1946, 1947 and 1953. Those pieces are harder to spot because they don't have the "screaming mistake," the large mint mark that is missing. It gets harder to spot them because the genuine pieces look more like them after they have gotten some wear.[/QUOTE]