A silver rosie keeps this week streak alive/WEIRD WAR NICKEL!!

[diggin4clad]

The nickel isn't plated, the alloy in Wartime nickels was notorious for not mixing properly resulting in many of the coins having problems with flaking. For some reason some wartime nickels ring up differently than others. I've dug quite a few and most ring up in the same number as other nickels but a few ring up in the penny/dime area. Some of my wartime finds come out of the ground looking as good as the day they were lost while others come out all crusty and ugly.

 

[amc rulz]

For some odd reason I can‘t expand your photo. Maybe it’s a Henning counterfeit! He produced some with no mint mark, dated 1944.

 

[markinswpa]

For some odd reason I can‘t expand your photo. Maybe it’s a Henning counterfeit! He produced some with no mint mark, dated 1944.

Been having the same problem. I click on a pic and all I get is buffering. And its happened on 3 or 4 threads.
Those aren't Henning nickels, just poorly mixed alloys.

 

[FLOOD]

I just scored a 43S war mickel yesterday, and it’s the first one that gave me an odd VDI. On the Legend, these war nickels usually ring up from 24-26. The one I found yesterday rang up as a 37, very different than the others. It has a little corrosion on it, but nothing too bad. I have had other war nickels that have had more corrosion and decay on both sides, revealing the innards of the coins. I’d say that’s pretty common since the nickel is only 35% silver so it’s more susceptible to breakdown than silver coins with much higher % of silver in them…what I’ve learned is that we can still be surprised by what we find in the ground, and the printed or otherwise stated VDI for typical coins is accurately stated in company literature and websites. Atypical coins exist, like the war Nickel. The VDI is accurate, and the detector is working just fine, it’s just not what one would expect to see on the detector because the coin is atypical in some way.