too cold to detect (pics)

[scavenger]

too cold and rainy out to detect so I went througha jar of pocket change. Found one off center dime (cant seem to find it ) and pictured is 5 silver nickles.
from left to right 1941, 1964, 1961, and 2 1960-D.
laters and HH
scav.

 

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[DeadLizard7]

Silver What do you know that no one else in the world knows? As far as I have read the only silver Jefferson Nickels are 1942-45 and were struck in a 35% silver alloy. Hmmmm...none of your pictured coins are within those dates.

Just an observation,
DL7

 

[Lowbatts]

Hey Scavenger, went to go out today but the car disagreed so I had to return home and clean the garage floor of radiator juice. Looking through my goodie bag in the garage I found this unlisted dbl strike today! It's a 2k3 cent over 2k mem cent. Darn mint problems. I'm gonna toss this in the toll basket and let the Illinois Tollway Authority deal with it...

 

[scavenger]

dead lizard, from what I understand silver nickles were silver up until 1964.
thats what I read.
Scav

 

[scavenger]

well, just made myself look like an idiot. I got to reading closer and your right, only quarters and dimes were silver until 1964 nickles had a tad of silver in the war years.

 

[jeff of pa]

maby you just didn't wake up today yet

 

[Beach_hunter]

Hey, treasure is where ya find it.

 

[Carl in CO]

Scavanger, put your story and photo on E-bay, ya' never know. Then refer your buyer to me. I got something to sell him/her as well.

 

[Cladius]

Boys Boys play nice! Every one has to learn sometime. Some lessons more embarrassing than others. Cladius.

 

[Kent in AL]

Hey, the silver lining here is that you found a '41 nickel in pocket change. That's not an everyday occurrence. Congrats!

Kent

 

[hurricaneplumber]

I even learned something today by reading all of this.
I've got piles of 64 nickels, sure wish they were silver.


The Jefferson Nickel
In 1938, the 25th year of the Buffalo nickel motif, it was decided to replace it with a new design. A public competition was announced with a prize of $1,000 to be awarded to the winner. Eventually 390 plaster models were submitted. Felix Schlag, a German immigrant who settled in Chicago nine years earlier, was announced as the winner on April 24th.
After modifications the design, featuring Thomas Jefferson on the obverse and his home, Monticello, on the reverse, was adopted for circulation. Mintage commenced in 1938 and has continued since that time. Certain nickel varieties from 1942 to 1945 were struck in a special alloy composed of 56% copper, 35% silver, and 9% manganese, to omit nickel which was in strong demand for war purposes. Several interesting varieties occur in the series, including an issue of 1939 with the inscriptions MONTICELLO and FIVE CENTS doubled, and several overmintmarks, the 1949-D over S, 1954-S over D, and 1955-D over S.