While going through some of my father's things after his passing ,day after last Christmas , I found a old tin that was my grandmother's then passed to my dad and now to me, and it was full of old coins and some other cool stuff. I'm assuming it was her father's stuff, I'm posting the coins and the other stuff ,just because there so cool and they're part of the package.
Unfortunately no. Only the ones with a mint mark above the Monticello dome were war nickles with silver content. Yours is just one of last regular nickles in 1942.
As a kid I started collecting Indian head nickels and it didn't matter to me if it had a nice legible image or not, I recently found one in my change, something I have found in more than 20 years so I opened the old cloth bank bag and added it to the collecting, I probably have around 35 to 40 dollars face value in Indian head nickels. HRP
Just curious of why you found my post somewhere between creativity and stupidity.? It was just about coins ,I don't think I made any bad statements about anything or anyone. Just confused
@rudestude I'm not sure what happened to my post about your 1943 pennies but it's now missing. In the pics, those look like they are made of copper, which if they are, they're a very rare coin since almost all the 43 pennies were made of steel (war effort). If those are indeed copper, they are worth a small fortune. Stick a magnet to them and find out.
Thanks for that heads-up on the coins ,I checked them and they stuck to a magnet, one of them did not stick as solid as the other 3 though?, thanks again and sorry about the questioning about your post I see now that its on all of your posts.
Ever since I was about 8 or 9 I have been saving all my pennies and any other interesting coins I came across. I just went through one of my jars of pennies and separated the US pennies from the rest, then put them in groups from the teens, 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's and nothing newer. In the first pic you can see how the numbers drop according to decade. There was one steel '43 penny and not one copper '43, dang it!
Big changes came to small change in 1942. Our (Canadian) nickels had been made of pure nickel since 1922 (before that, they were silver and very small), but then switched to a brass alloy. Canada was producing huge amounts of nickel, but it was sent to the US for refining, and the US wouldn't send it back! Something about needing it for the war. So the pure nickel coins were replaced by brass (officially called "Tombac") and assumed the formerly well known twelve sided shape. The US of course switched to the famous silver alloy nickel, although it was "only" 35% silver. It is amazing to think about how wealthy the US was. What other country would substitute silver into a base metal coin, during a major war? Incidentally, I believe this is the first time the "P" mintmark was put on US coins. All three mints (Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco) added a large mint mark on the obverse of the nickel, ostensibly to make it easier to identify and withdraw them at a later date.
A few more Canuck coins. I was always intrigued by the unique sound of a handful of real made out of nickel coins. Silver coins have a distinctive ring too. I noticed that the 'V for Victory' nickels have corrosion on some after all these years. They weren't like that when I took them out of circulation. It's the first time I looked at them in decades. I took a few pics of George V & George VI coins , a 1932 penny, one of those tiny 5 cent coins next to a regular size penny, a '51 half dollar and a square nickel from the Netherlands (1914) that has been living in my sock drawer.
All cool stuff guys!!!!.... Anyone into collecting Star notes or old bills????.... I got this from cashing my check at the bank a couple of weeks ago..... I should went back for more of those... My lose...
Neat! I am guessing that is a replacement note. You reminded me of a banknote I got at my bank a few years ago. I asked if there was any odd, old money and the teller came back with a beat up US two dollar bill (I'm in Canada), and it was a 1928 series! Unfortunately it looked like it had been folded into a little rectangle and kept in someone's pocket since 1928. So it had little collector value, I believe I gave it away.
Yes, it's a replacement note.. it might be worth a couple of dollars above face value.. I have a 1 dollar bill that might be worth 5 bucks... I also have a couple of silver certificate bills from the '30s I think... I gotta look...
I think I started my coin collecting with Indian Head nickels, I have a lot of them and I didn't care if they were worn to the point that no date was visible, I have a lot of other coins from Indian head pennies to Morgan & Peace dollars, several books full of pennies, nickels, mercury and Roosevelt dimes, quarters, walking half dollars along with several rolls of 1964 Kennedy half dollars.( the last of the real silver coins. I haven't actively collected in 40 years but when I run across something old I toss it in a cigar box on the dresser. Heck I might have enough silver to build another hot rod! HRP
My wife was going through our change jar that we just toss our loose coins. She takes the coins in to the bank when it’s full. I ask her to look through the coins in case there’s any old coins in the mix. The last time there was a silver quarter and dime plus a few wheat pennies in the accumulation. I wasn’t too surprised about the pennies but I was surprised about the two silver coins were still in circulation.
My daughter went to the quick trip this morning and got a shiny 1898 Indian head penny in her change, I am willing to bet someone stole a roll of pennies and spent them. I have a lot of circulated Indian head pennies but this one is darn near mint. HRP
Yeah, that's in real nice condition. You can still see the lines on the shield, some detail on the wreath and head dress detail.
Pretty nice for a coin that's 125 years old, I've seen 2022 pennies that looked like they were that old! HRP
I metal detect and have found a lot of coins over the years. Here is a hard to find 1881 3 cent nickel. Sorry about the fuzzy obverse picture. Old man with shaky hands!
That's pretty neat. Especially that you found it detecting! I've read that those three cent coins were the first to be called "nickels", the name later being adopted for the five cent pieces. This despite the fact that both coins are made of 75% copper and (only) 25% nickel. About half a century later Canada started minting five cent coins of pure nickel, and the US colloquial term was adopted, in this case more appropriately.
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