Watch your nickels!

[too_pointer]

Just a reminder to look at nickels in your change. I know war nickels don't have much silver, but silver is silver. I got one awhile go, and it looks like a new nickel, would of been pretty easy to miss !
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[cellrdwellr]

Good advice! Never found a war nickel in change, but have found a couple 90%'ers.

 

[metaladdict]

Just gave away a 1939 nickel.

 

[markinmichigan]

Just gave away a 1939 nickel.

No you didn't unless they were your best friend

Mark in Michigan

 

[kidlester]

Hello,
Love war nickels, one of my favorite coins!
HH
Tom

 

[hoser]

Love finding them. I pretty much know when I find one while detecting as they sing a lot louder that the typical nickel signals.

 

[marcomo]

If you get a war nickel in change that looks like a new nickel then you have a nickel that hasn't circulated much. War nickels rapidly turned gray with circulation. As far as digging them, I've found no consistent ID pattern and ondition varies wildly from shiny like new to heavily corroded.

 

[too_pointer]

If you get a war nickel in change that looks like a new nickel then you have a nickel that hasn't circulated much. War nickels rapidly turned gray with circulation. As far as digging them, I've found no consistent ID pattern and ondition varies wildly from shiny like new to heavily corroded.

Alot to digging them in different soils, I imagine.

 

[marcomo]

Some time back I dug a 1950 dated Canadian nickel and I was struck by how nice it looked compared to the US nickels I dig even though it had been in the ground a while evidenced by the fact that it was several inches deep.

Upon research, I found out the reason. The Canadian nickel was pure nickel. And nickel is very corrosion resistant. The coin we call a nickel is actually only 25% nickel and 75% copper except during the war years when they were 56% copper, 9% manganese and 35% silver.

 

[Wom 27]

Got one in my change last year at a Wawa !

 

[diggin4clad]

Love finding them. I pretty much know when I find one while detecting as they sing a lot louder that the typical nickel signals.

I've found quite a few Wartime nickels, but they have rung up at different ID numbers for some reason.

 

[hoser]

I've found quite a few Wartime nickels, but they have rung up at different ID numbers for some reason.

Yep. On the E it is a strong nickel signal on steroids. Still reads 11-11, or 12-12 but the sound is sweeter more on the low silver level.

 

[diggin4clad]

Yep. On the E it is a strong nickel signal on steroids. Still reads 11-11, or 12-12 but the sound is sweeter more on the low silver level.

On my AT Pro, nickels generally ring in at 52-53 and that's where I've dug some, but I've also had a few ring in at 80-81 which is where copper pennies and clad dimes come in at. Additionally, when I was using my White's detectors, Eagle II and M6 they did the same thing, come in at 20 where most nickels come in at and have some ring in at somewhere near 80 where the pennies and dimes come in at. I never could figure out why there was such a difference.

 

[hoser]

Yep, it seems to be all over the place. I'm just glad we can still find them.

 

[Beachhunter]

I didn’t know what years War Nickels were minted so I looked it up.
There are only four year-dates for war nickels. They are 1942, 1943, 1944, and 1945. If you have a Jefferson nickel with one of these dates, it's likely a war nickel. However, minting of war nickels didn't start until mid-1942, so those made in early 1942 were not war nickels.

 

[diggin4clad]

I didn’t know what years War Nickels were minted so I looked it up.
There are only four year-dates for war nickels. They are 1942, 1943, 1944, and 1945. If you have a Jefferson nickel with one of these dates, it's likely a war nickel. However, minting of war nickels didn't start until mid-1942, so those made in early 1942 were not war nickels.

You can tell a 1942 War Nickel from the other by the fact that all dates of Wartime nickels had a large mintmark above the dome of Monticello, even the Philadelphia versions.

 

[too_pointer]

I believe my war nickel was 1943, the Large P above the dome.
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[Princess]

Yes, that's a good reminder! I like to check my change, too.