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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2Old, post: 3548949, member: 73056&quot;]Per Stuckey&#039;s Book from coins submitted by A. Wayne Rowe and Walter L Williams</p><p>Note I converted grains to grams and in the book it also lists Diameter &amp; Thickness</p><p>1944 5.4</p><p>1946 5.26</p><p>1947 5.3</p><p>1944 5.27</p><p>1944 5.23</p><p>From the JC Stevens &amp; Bob Saylor Collections</p><p>1944 5.4</p><p>1939 5.4</p><p>1939 5.42</p><p>1947 5.33</p><p>Per the mint, &quot;Mrs. Rae v. Biester, Superintendent&quot; 756 lbs. of copper-nickel alloy confiscated planchets was melted and converted into the mints standard cupro-nickel make-up and converted into coinage ingots.</p><p>Nothing was noted in Stuckey&#039;s book about counterfeit planchets of the correct weight of 5.0 grams for the nickels struck by the US mint during this period. This is the first time that I know of that a counterfeit below 5.27 grams is being reported[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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