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1943-P Nickel that I need help figuring out what it is?
cjdilego
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Hi Gang, I am not sure what I have here. The coin is wafer thin and smaller in circumference than a normal silver nickel. Maybe on the wrong planchet? Not sure it is even silver? Any suggestions on the best way to proceed? Thanks
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Looks like a damaged coin that was buried in the earth for a long time. Environmental damage.
bob
...or acid, or from a river/ocean.
Environmental damage. Appears to be a metal detector find. Worth melt. Which for a coin like that will not be very much. Coinflation lists a war nickel as having $1.43 in melt value, with silver at $25.43 an ounce. In that condition, I would say that if you can get $1 for it you are doing well. Just throw it in with a bunch of other war nickels when you go to sell it.
If silver, why no tarnish.
Cleaned?
Keep it for scrap or search the date.
I cant see it .
It is scrap. Sorry but it literally is worth melt.
As others have said, it is environmental damage. It is strictly a melt value item.
yup, metal detecting coin.
The ones from salt water are far worse.
BHNC #203
Great pictures of a coin that is close to total loss... Likely been in the ground for years, probably lawn or garden where fertilizers have been used and corrosion has taken toll....Cheers, RickO
PMD.
Thanks for all your input. I thought that maybe it was made of tin or on the wrong planchet but it is so heavily worn it is hard to tell.
diameter shrunken (circumference lettering cut off at top)
thinner
loss/softness of detail
something has eaten metal away from that coin
the obverse looks like an acid etched buffalo nickel that used to be dateless