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<p>[QUOTE="ValpoBeginner, post: 3066436, member: 77066"]You might be surprised how many of the 1938 and some 1939 nickels get the Full Steps designation. The first design change came in 1939 when the mints struck both designs of the differently new differently 1940-style "well-defined steps" minted along with the older 1938 wavy style steps with less definition. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think that the mint was just glad that the Buffalo nickels which caused quite a few die breaks were done with. Creating quality grade hardened steel was still in its infancy before the war.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess two things come to mind when thinking about what the war did to the world of numismatics. First stronger steel dies, and secondly clad coinage. I read somewhere that it was a new form of welding discovered in WWII by evidencing what happened to metals close together during an explosion. Cool effect, but I could've just settled for the metallurgical advances in die making; I prefer alloyed or pure metal coins, to sandwiched clad.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ValpoBeginner, post: 3066436, member: 77066"]You might be surprised how many of the 1938 and some 1939 nickels get the Full Steps designation. The first design change came in 1939 when the mints struck both designs of the differently new differently 1940-style "well-defined steps" minted along with the older 1938 wavy style steps with less definition. I think that the mint was just glad that the Buffalo nickels which caused quite a few die breaks were done with. Creating quality grade hardened steel was still in its infancy before the war. I guess two things come to mind when thinking about what the war did to the world of numismatics. First stronger steel dies, and secondly clad coinage. I read somewhere that it was a new form of welding discovered in WWII by evidencing what happened to metals close together during an explosion. Cool effect, but I could've just settled for the metallurgical advances in die making; I prefer alloyed or pure metal coins, to sandwiched clad.[/QUOTE]
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