Picked this nice little fellow up today to replace my heavily cleaned 20-center. This one has also, seemingly, been cleaned but it's nothing like the steel wool treatment on the previous coin. One lucky thing about this upgrade is that it's the MPD and S/S variety, not that it makes very much of a difference in the grand scheme of things. It's just getting slotted into my 7070 and resting there until a better replacement shows itself. Also, what's up with this funky war nickel? There's no mintmark on it and the "R" in PLURIBUS has some strange loop in it.
Nice upgrade on the 20 cent piece. The nickel looks like it could be a Hennings nickel counterfeit. Calling @JCro57
That's quite the Henning nickel you got there! No mint mark is an indicator of it. As for the 20 cent piece, that's a nice upgrade! That went from about a cleaned F to a possible UNC. Not sure if the upgrade is problem-free but it's otherwise a beautiful coin.
Thanks! I was kinda hinting at that counterfeit, sorry if I led anybody on. Funny quick little story about that... he had two Hennings there, but this was the one with the looped R. The other was also a '44 but no loop, and it looked a little bit worse for wear. Better to have them off the streets and out of circulation. That way people don't try to pay for their groceries with counterfeit money! (?)
That'd be the only counterfeit money I'd take..... that'd turn 5 cents into anywhere from $175 to $350. Check Ebay sold comps, those are crazy numbers for a counterfeit. Even more than the 1896, 1900, and 1902 Micro O Morgans.
Is it silver? I've got a counterfeit 1902-O to match, sadly mine is about 17 grams. Even counterfeit are worth melt.
That's actually cool. Believe it or not, out of all the "tribute proofs" out there, I find a bit of aura in owning a real counterfeit coin. Here's my counterfeit 1902. May have been made around the same time the Red Book underneath it was (1962).
