Dug this nickel on Monday, just cleaned it & realized its silver lol

Murray8144

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Dug this nickel on Monday, just cleaned it & realized it's silver lol

1st war nickel...guess I gotta pay more attention to my finds.

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Carolina Tom

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Congrats on your first silver nickel. It should have a large mint mark above the dome on the reverse. Well played!

These are also known as "OD nickels" here on TNet. Perhaps someone will elaborate on that.
 

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So you do dig low vdi's on those trashy north Jersey sites. Now go find some gold
 

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1st war nickel...guess I gotta pay more attention to my finds.
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Hey! Ya know....THAT is probably why Old Dude doesn't have any yet! He probably spent them all
as regular nickels! (Knowing his eyesight! LOL )
 

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Gotta love pulling that OD Nickel. Congrats. Hope Old Dude doesn't read this post.:tongue3:
 

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Hahah. That totally happened to me once! Nice OD nickel
 

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