War nickels. Do they ever have a premium significantly over melt?

A definite NO on the steps. See the TPG definition.

 

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Have you recollection of any key dates and their significance of the top of your head? Sorry for asking, just recently getting more and more u to nickels and it seems some info is a little less easy to come by sometime

 

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Define TPG if you could. Sorry, leaning.

 

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The biggie is the '43-D. It might take time to find a buyer but these can be sold at about double melt when someone needs them.

The other bigger one is the '44-S. It's surprisingly tough in G or better.

The rest are the '44-D, '45-D, and '42-D. The '45-S and '42-P can have a premium, too.

Culls, low grades, and common date are making up a larger and larger percentage of "war nickels" so when wholesalers need nice coins they are not readily available. A lot of these have always been culls but many years of melting is just showing that some extremely common coins like a nice VF '44-S really isn't very common any longer.