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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;quarter-back, post: 1826064, member: 47022&quot;]I was reading Mr Bowers&#039; nickel book and came across a reference to 1943/2 P nickels made with the pre-war planchets.&nbsp; I must have read book that a hundred times, but never caught that reference before.&nbsp; Anyway, I have an overdate/DDO the color and texture of which I have always wondered about.&nbsp; It looks more like it was struck a Cu-Ni planchet, but I always assumed that it had been cleaned or something that changed its color.&nbsp; I got it out and did some comparisons with normal silver and normal Cu-Ni nickels.&nbsp; I weighed several war nickels and got an average of 4.91 and then weighed Cu-Ni coins and got an average of 5.00.&nbsp; The nickel in question weighed 4.99, but it is likely that weight tolerances for the two planchet types overlap, so no help there.&nbsp;&nbsp; I then did a tissue test, and it looks like the nickel in question more closely resembles the Cu-Ni planchet.&nbsp; I know its difficult to accurately capture color, I have included a few pictures below.&nbsp; If I understand the software correctly, you should be able to click on the thumbnail and see the larger version.&nbsp; Let me know what you think. </p><p><br /></p><p>The first picture shows that the coin actually is the overdate</p><p>[ATTACH]300557[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The next picture shows the obverse of the coin</p><p>[ATTACH]300558[/ATTACH]</p><p>The next two pictures show the coin in question adjacent to two silver nickels (above and to the left) and a Cu-Ni nickel (right)</p><p>[ATTACH]300559[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]300560[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The last two pictures show the result of the tissue test.&nbsp; The first is color enhanced, the second is un-retouched.&nbsp; The silver coin is to the left, the Cu-Ni coin is on the right.</p><p>[ATTACH]300561[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]300562[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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