Great to have in hand, still can't find a 1943 war nickel On regular Plan, found 2 1944 in auctions
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great coin
11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set
What prompted you to "look" for the off metal ? Were you weighing this, or did the color tip you off ?
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color didn't seem right
Awesome off metal error. Great find!
Do the 1944's have mint marks???
found two with MM , not the counterfeit ones.
And the 2 I found were in auctions.
Great find! A prize for your collection or a boost to your coin collecting fund, a win either way you go.
I've was XRF-ing a handful of geniune coins in order to accurately assess the counterfeits I wanted to test. I had to establish a baseline composition by testing genuine coins first before the counterfeits could be XRF-ed in order to ensure the accuracy and consistency of my metallurgical results. The first silver war nickel I XRF-ed came up with a composition I did not expect (I can't recall what that alloy was off the top of my head, but it wasn't silver), so I put that aside, not thinking too much of it, and tested another which appeared to show the accurate wartime silver alloy. I should go back through the handful of War nickels I was using and see if that first piece was a copper-nickel planchet since I had never known these existed until you shared this post - so THANK YOU! Oh, and the pieces I was testing were either 1942-S or 1943-S (not Philadelphia issues).
Do you have an idea of what a copper-nickel 1943 (reverse mintmark) would be worth?
Have admired some of the errors posted... would love to see more!
It's "flan" or "plan." (with period as an abbreviation).
Plan is how you get your meals at a hotel -- American Plan or Continental Plan.
Cool find!
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To get good flan, you have to go to a Mexican restaurant!
I had great flan in Portugal while I lived there.... have not had any quite that good anywhere else.... However, back to the topic... I only recently became aware of the CuNi war nickels...I have some put away, will have to check them out...Where are the details (i.e. weight, mm) found... I checked the CPG and it does not list them.
Cheers, RickO
Very cool. I've never seen one a those before. Great score.
So what is it worth?
thats nice to have in the collection
The planchets for those were probably stuck in the mint machinery and came loose during the year struck. The mint employees just tossed the planchets back into the stock on hand for striking.