Jefferson nickle @ 4.8 grams?

Is it just from wear and tear? I'm confused, I have never seen a nickle weigh less or more than 5.0g , and I've seen and weighed alot of nickles. I use them to calibrate my scales.

 

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I cant even tell the year of that nickel let alone tell you what is going on other than it looks like fire might be a suspect.

 

Corroded, hence the lower weight.

 

Never? Keep weighing them.. I'm sure you will find plenty. Most coins have some that have a -/+ weight varience. Some planchets were punched from a slightly rolled thinner or thicker sheet. In the case or your nickel it could be just circulation wear and tear.

 

How many is "a lot"? Billions and billions of nickels have been produced since WWII. ~ Chris

 

*NICKEL*

 

Some from wear and tear (circulation) some from damage (corrosion, fire, there's a small chunk of metal missing) and it's possible it could be from a slightly thinner planchet. It's worth .05 cents.
If you had a brand new nickel that weighed 4.8 that would be more interesting,
although it is still close enough to tolerance not to bring a premium.
Whenever you are dealing with errors or incorrect weight, there is a degree of severity. The more minor it is, the less valuable it is. The more dramatic the error, the more dramatic the weight difference, high or low, is always better.

 

I just pulled 7 of them out of my pocket and none of them weigh 5.0 grams. Three 4.98, a 4.96. and three 4.90

 

Wow. That's crazy. I've probably weighed hundreds of nickles and this is the 1st that has weighed less than 5.0

 

Well, technically 25% nickle, and 75% cooper.

 

Now, come on. It's probably still worth the full 5 cents.

 

It has five cents on the reverse do that's what it's worth, regardless of its weight.

 

1.00 is a dollar.
.05 is a nickel or 5 cents.
.10 is a dime.
.01 is a penny.
It has always been written in decimal this way.

 

Yes but when you write it as .05 cents, then it means 5/100ths of a cent. .05, that's a nickel, .05 cents is half a Mil.

 

gits

 

.05 cents is... a mistake. Or the rounding error on the price of a half-gallon of gas.

 

Just found one, 100% legible, clean also circulated weighed at 4.8. Any ideas quite yet?

 

Yes.. the answers were given on this thread.

All coins can have a bit of a weight variance of plus or minus.

 

Yeah, keep looking, find more, you'll be rich someday, maybe, it's quite possible, you can never tell.