War Nickel Not Struck In Silver!! Sold
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Lot 7093 in Stacks Bowers Auction tomorrow. One of the coolest errors in the sale in my opinion!!
1944-P Jefferson Nickel--Struck on a Standard Nickel Planchet--VF-35 (PCGS). Secure Holder.
Medium steel-gray with a hint of golden toning. Well-circulated but to no great physical detriment.
A truly neat item by any standards. In late 1942 the use of copper-nickel planchets for the circulating five-cent pieces was discontinued and replaced by a copper-silver-manganese amalgam that would remain for the duration of the war. In 1946 the copper-nickel standard was once again in play for the denomination. No doubt a left-over copper-nickel planchet -- or more perhaps -- of the 1938-1942 era was on hand at the Mint and somehow found its way into the hopper of silver Wartime nickels. From there it entered circulation where it must have stayed for years before an eagle-eyed collector spotted it for the anomaly that it was and kept it in a collection where it avoided more wear and tear.
PCGS# E4022. NGC ID: 22TU.
Pedigree: From Heritage's Long Beach Signature Sale of June 2004, lot 10306, where it realized $5,405.
1944-P Jefferson Nickel--Struck on a Standard Nickel Planchet--VF-35 (PCGS). Secure Holder.
Medium steel-gray with a hint of golden toning. Well-circulated but to no great physical detriment.
A truly neat item by any standards. In late 1942 the use of copper-nickel planchets for the circulating five-cent pieces was discontinued and replaced by a copper-silver-manganese amalgam that would remain for the duration of the war. In 1946 the copper-nickel standard was once again in play for the denomination. No doubt a left-over copper-nickel planchet -- or more perhaps -- of the 1938-1942 era was on hand at the Mint and somehow found its way into the hopper of silver Wartime nickels. From there it entered circulation where it must have stayed for years before an eagle-eyed collector spotted it for the anomaly that it was and kept it in a collection where it avoided more wear and tear.
PCGS# E4022. NGC ID: 22TU.
Pedigree: From Heritage's Long Beach Signature Sale of June 2004, lot 10306, where it realized $5,405.
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my first thought was how it could get struck well over a year after the start of the Silver issues, but I imagine a Mint worker probably found a planchet that was assumed to be Silver and threw it in a hopper. no doubt there were some laying around in tooling areas or the floor under a bench or something. what a great off-metal coin.
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