Copper War Jefferson?
joeykoins
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Hi guy's. This Jeffy, 1943P, was one I posted in one of my earlier threads. This time I'm wondering if my War Nickle can actually be the rare Copper? They say both weigh the same (5.0 Gms.) so it's too difficult to detect this way. Other options are to do the scientific method. They call it the "drop test". by trying this, you can damage the coin. Besides, you really have to have a good ear to detect. In which, I'm not too far from being deaf as we speak. Old age! Lol. They're is one more option. To use that High Tech. tool that dealers sometime have at their stores. Very expensive bullion tool.
So, which brings me to my next option. To at least determine knowing I have a shot at the rare error. I posted pictures of the coins edge. To me, this seems odd! Notice the two layers of an appearance of Copper. I am aware of the two different shades but wondering what the heck these layers really can be? Thanks guy's for any suggestions. 
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Could be strick on a foreign planchet.
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Wow! That'll be cool alright! Strange appearance, huh?
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--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.Nickel planchets are 75% copper and 25% nickel could be a alloy mix problem when they rolled out the stock it was not properly mixed in the strip stock!
Oh I'm sorry yours is a war nickel they changed the formula for those!
War nickels take on many colors and shades due to the specific alloy and sometimes uneven mix of metals.
I wonder why the exposure though? In all of my years in coin collecting, never seen the edge of Jeffersons like this.
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Silver war nickels were still 56% copper, so could this be one that the metal wasn't mixed to well leaving the streak of copper?
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Remember that even "warnix" have 56% copper in them, so an improper mixture of the correct composition could result in an appearance of this metal.
I'd bank on post-mint damage, however. There is a lot of nastiness happening around the reverse rim.
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Like the comments above. It seems that it could be an improper metal mix.
Pete
FWIW, I find normal nickels that have a coppery appearance in full or in part. It is environmental damage in those cases.
Normal coin, no extra value.
Normal coin. I've seen that dozens of times.
Why do you find the yellow discoloration more unusual than the green discoloration right next to it?
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Nothing special.
Just grabbed a random bunch of nickels out of my scrap. Note the tendency to develop rings of discoloration around the rim. They come in all colors. Reds and yellows and greens.
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It's common on war nickels. It's less common on copper nickel jeffersons. As someone else mentioned, probably alloy mixing issues.
If it were indicative of a copper- nickel composition, you'd see it all the time on non-war jeffersons.
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Little different, no?
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