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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Colonialjohn, post: 2363852, member: 57741&quot;]I agree with you that it looks very much like improper alloy mixing. But $500? Never happen. Interestingly, in the War Time Nickel series I had a theory that magnesium (from memory) and other metal mixes for the WWII nickels overall were not stable and hence created a high percentage of lamination errors in this series. For the people that collect this common Federal coin we can all agree to this common error which persists in this series of WWII nickels - lamination streaks in a high percentage - actually more than any other U.S. Federal coin the 20thC.</p><p>Running some XRF and SEM/EDS tests I confirmed it was not outside contaminants but just a poor alloy mix SELECTION by the U.S. Mint which looked good for the short term but had issues in the long term (i.e., &gt;1 year) in circulation. It never made it to Mike Diamond and Collector&#039;s Clearinghouse since I never bothered submitting my results.</p><p>This is NOT PMD. You can argue ... LOL.</p><p>But like I said on top ... so what? Its not a so what worth $500. This KIND of error anyway does not attract error collectors that strongly. Its an interesting nickel that we see this error outside of the WWII series - NOT THAT OFTEN.</p><p><br /></p><p>John Lorenzo</p><p>Numismatist</p><p>United States[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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