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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 1440824, member: 31533&quot;]Hi Herman. Glad to see you on here under your name. You are amazing to want to continue this, and I think that you will find things about coins you never dreamed.&nbsp; Everyone finds their own likings about coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>The War Nickels are a good short series to work. They are not expensive and have most of their value only based on the silver content. The coins were the standard Jefferson Nickels, but changed to a composition that included 35% silver and also magnesium so that nickel could be saved for wartime uses. The mint decided to put a large mintmark (P, D, or S) on the reverse above the memorial, with the idea that after the war, when the series went back to normal metal composition, they could be identified easily and pulled from circulation. But I don&#039;t know that any real effort was made to pull them from circulation. </p><p><br /></p><p>Later on, as I understand it, there were a number of these melted for the silver content. But I don&#039;t know how many. </p><p><br /></p><p>Nowadays, here in the US, they do sometimes show up in circulation, but not that many. Many people do take a while to complete a set they are doing, even if it isn&#039;t a large one, unless they are all easily found. I have a collection of them from circulation finds, and mine is not complete.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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