jleffert
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- Apr 23, 2013
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I just got home for spring break so I thought I'd take a trip back to my boy scout camp that I've been detecting. It was really muddy and some snow still on the ground so it limited the detecting area. I headed back to a spot that has coughed up my my oldest silver coin as well as some others. I hit the tree line and just under some leaves on the surface I found a 1960 Roosevelt dime.Awesome! Just a couple feet away I found my oldest wheat (1914). I continued to a triangular spot of grass just across the walkway, no more than 50 square feet, where I proceeded to find 38 quarters all down about 1 inch? Also in that area I found a 1945 Mercury dime at 1.5 inches and literally on the surface was this 1944 nickel.
I took a closer look at it and realized it lacked the large mintmark on the back. So I took it home, did a little research and found out its a counterfeit. In 1954, a man named Francis LeRoy Henning from New Jersey made several hundred thousand counterfeit nickels. He dumped the majority of them into the river and they estimate that about 100,000 made it into circulation. Needless to say he was arrested. Now the only downside is, its probable the roughest nickel I have ever dug, but nevertheless its the coolest. If you guys have any idea of the possible value, I would love to know, I know they're hard to come by. Thanks- John
I took a closer look at it and realized it lacked the large mintmark on the back. So I took it home, did a little research and found out its a counterfeit. In 1954, a man named Francis LeRoy Henning from New Jersey made several hundred thousand counterfeit nickels. He dumped the majority of them into the river and they estimate that about 100,000 made it into circulation. Needless to say he was arrested. Now the only downside is, its probable the roughest nickel I have ever dug, but nevertheless its the coolest. If you guys have any idea of the possible value, I would love to know, I know they're hard to come by. Thanks- John