1913 V Nickel

SethChandler

What happened to coin #5? The "lost" one. Wasn't the coin in a car wreck in the 1950's and never recovered?

paigowjohnny

From what I read...that's the leading speculation, but nobody seems to know for sure.

Liberty nickels

clw54

I don't have it, which narrows it down a bit.

SethChandler

Shouldn't it be easy to trace.......considering the coin was very popular even the the 20's by way of Mehl's heavy advertising? Who was the last person to own it?

Johnscoin

From what several authors have said, the specimen in the car wreck was quite probably a counterfeit...Of course, no one but the owner and the owner of the 5th one know...
A mystery of coins...

Cam40

Whom ever owns this so-called missing V nickel probably doesnt want it to be known.After all,It a huge coin as far as US coins go.So I could just see someone coming out with it saying `Here it is.I have it`,Then another says,`Ya,Thats the coin I lost.Thank you for recovering iot for me`....What? It is too mine....You,ll be hearing from my attorney you jerk`....

SethChandler

Cam40,

Kinda like the Dupont coins (1804 $, 1866 No Motto)?
Its been probably 50 years...the person who "stole" the coin is probably dead by now. Who or Where would the Nickel go to from there?. I think the Dupont coins were stolen in the 70's and recovered 20 years later. But 50 years is a long time to hold a stolen item and not profit from it.

dbldie55

As far as I know, no one is claiming it has been stolen. I think I read somewhere that the Reynold's family was interviewed and they claimed to have no record of ever owning the coin. George Walton was said to have had it, but he died in an auto accident in North Carolina in 1962. This is now, and will probably always be, an unsolved mystery.

sinin1

I think it is in circulation, everyday I check my change for this coin (along with some other key dates).

SethChandler

Or maybe its coin #5 with deep reddish brown toning...........

Johnscoin

You know, I wouldn't doubt the possibility of a copper pattern existing... You never know what is really out there. What the mint workers did after midnight can blow anyone's mind I am sure. What it would be to have been Eric Newman and had all five of the coins offered to you. That would have been cool!

Conder101

There is a copper 1913 nickel but it is a pattern buffalo. The story confusuion comes from the holder that Col Green kept the coins in. Col Green had a special holder made up that he kept all five 1913 V nickels in. It also contained a sixth coin, a copper pattern buffalo. Because of misunderstanding or mis communications about the holder some people have claimed that there were six 1913 V Nickels. What I have often wondered about is what else was in the holder. I have seen it and it had spaces in it for EIGHT nickel sized coins.

dbldie55

This is getting silly:

Eric P. Newman had all of these coins, in the holder. Here is an exact quote from a letter he wrote to me:

In answer to your further question about the contents of the leather holder for the eight nickel size holes in two rows of four each I can state the following:

The five 1913 Liberty Head Nickels were in the holder.
The 1913 Copper Composition nickel Type II is still there and is Judd #1790
The 1913 nickel pattern without the F (Judd 1789) was there but was sold in the 1940's by B.G. Johnson for both of us.
The 1913 Indian Head Type I regular issue was and is still in the holder.

This ought to clear up your confusion.


This was signed by Eric.

If there is a copper 1913 "Liberty Head" piece, it was not with the other 5.

Conder101

Thanks, that tells me what the other two coins were.

supercoin

That also clears up a few things about those Liberty Nickel collectors.