hi e1 its me again with more coins, i no get a book but we are wondering what ones are worth hanging on too. also i came across a few that either have no mint marks or they are worn off. 1943 steel penny-D 1946 copper counterfit Hennings Nickle 1964 silver dime-D 1941 Mercury dime-D 1939 Mercury dime-no mint 1918 Mercury dime-P 1953 Silver dime-D 1958 Wheat penny-D 1914 Wheat penny-no mint 1944 Wheat penny-S 1963 Silver quarter-D 1919 Wheat penny-S 1946 Wheat penny-D 1945 Wheat penny-no mint 1940 Wheat penny-D 1945 Wheat penny-no mint 1966 penny-no mint 1957 Wheat penny-D 1951 Wheat penny-D Sorry but ill put up pictures as soon as i can.
I would like to see pics of the copper henning counterfeit. I am assuming it is a counterfeit of a counterfeit as he supposedly used the same blanks the mint did. Or it is copper washed. I'm so excited!
Without pics the guy's here would have a hard time giving you values, it is a bit like trying to put a value on a second hand car without knowing if it has a engine or not LOL
Note: if you know that you have "1946 copper counterfit Hennings Nickle" Then the rest of the answers should be easy. Sorry for the apparent sarcasm, but..... If you can ID a Henning, and even know about it, then I have to wonder why you ask about the other coins.
lol i found this nickle at work and it looks like bronze but there is some silverish spots to it too. the only reason i believe it is what it is would be because i googled the year and it was the only thing that came up. i could still be wrong about it. but from everything i read that is what it leads me to. it is in decent shape i think. i not sure, since i am just learning everything but the details on it are good and there is no mint mark ( i know it could of wore off ) but nothing else is really wore on the nickle. i would really like to get pics up so maybe someone could tell me for sure but everytime i try i get terrible pics. any advice on how to photo these?
This is an interesting post. Let me see if I can help. First, all 1946 nickels made at the Philadelphia mint do not have a mint mark. So it would make sense that your coin doesn't have one. There are a couple of things to look for to see if this is a Henning nickel. If you search the web for "1944 no p nickel" you should be able to see what these look like. The planchets used by Henning were very very close to the mint standard. In fact the mint melted down and reused the henning planchets they confiscated. So the color of a Henning nickel is similar to any other nickel from that era except the silver wartime nickels (they sometimes look darker). Henning made his own dies and they were not good quality detail wise. The Henning nickels look worn and not sharply struck. Also the planchets look grainy. So if your nickel looks nice and sharp and the surfaces of the coin look smooth then it probably is not a Henning nickel. Another thing to look for is on the reverse some Henning nickels have a hole in the bottom of the vertical leg of the letter R in PLURIBUS. If your coin has this then it really helps your chance of having a Henning nickel. But Henning claims to have made 6 different reverse dies so not all Henning nickels have this feature. Personally, from your description I think you have a regular nickel that has been coppper washed as stated above. If you could post photos of both sides of the coin it would help alot. I would love to see them. Either way, Henning nickels are a great interest of mine and I'm glad you posted this. I hope it helps you.
Nickels are made of nickel. Just to confirm the spelling of the word nickel. There is no word in the English language spelled nickle. There are people named Nickle, or Nickles, or even Nichols. But those are names, and proper nouns. Having been a teacher, but now retired, I'd like to point out that often, a person misspelling a word will see others type the same word spelled properly and think that those people are making a mistake. When I see that possibility, I usually interject this tip to help avoid confusion and perpetuation of certain continued misspellings. I hope this post helps somebody. In no way do I believe that I am better than any other member or person. Thanks. : ) Other commonly misspelled word include: dependent, consistent, quarter, penny, dollar, collectible, calendar, separate. Here's a nice list with explanations about some words that will show why words are spelled the way they are, which isn't always what we might expect: http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/misspelled.html
Regarding the value of the coins in the original post... The face value of your coins in the original post is about 90¢. They are much more valuable as the start of a collection and could be the least expensive gift you can find. They might thrill some child or young collector to whom your coins might become treasures. Edited because as a collector, I never consider the bullion value of Mercury dimes but yes, they are worth a bit more than I estimated earlier. : ) Thanks, Pyrbob. : )
There is $.75 in face value of silver here. Right now dealers are paying 9 to 10 times face for circulated siver. So that is $6.75 to $7.50 just for the dimes and the quater. The wheat cents, depending on condition are $.03 - .10 each in circulated G-VG condition. The 1966 cent is spendable unless it is UNC. A ciculated steel cent should bring $.05 to .10 depending on condition. This should help with prices. I would still like to see photos of the 1946 nickel.
May I ask advice, I found a 1988 quater in my late fathers house, is the head supposed to be the opposite of the eagle (i.e upside down), thanks and can supply vid if worth more than a quater lol.
