Got my first ever war nickel

[Jimmy@romega]

1945 s out of a vending machine at work. Poor condition little bit beat up but it's still silver (35%) ??

 

[golden silver]

Yup Congrats! 35%

Golden Silver

 

[sniffer]

I've been seeing more and more of them in circulation. maybe a sign of the times ?

 

[SMPress]

How much silver is in a 35% nickel as compared to a 90% dime? Is it comparable?

 

[golden silver]

I know that a 40% half has just under what a 90% quarter has in silver. Check out this web site to find your answer. Type in just one of each coin and it will give you the amount of silver in the coin. I think you will like this site. I always fool around with it by putting an imaginary silver value of say $100 per ounce and typing in the amount of each type of coin that I have to figure out how rich I will be. Have fun with it. Oh and on the left side there are calculators to figure out foreign coin silver break downs.

Golden Silver


http://www.silverrecyclers.com/Calculators/coin_calculator.aspx

 

[AGCoinHunter]

I know that a 40% half has just under what a 90% quarter has in silver. Check out this web site to find your answer. Type in just one of each coin and it will give you the amount of silver in the coin. I think you will like this site. I always fool around with it by putting an imaginary silver value of say $100 per ounce and typing in the amount of each type of coin that I have to figure out how rich I will be. Have fun with it.

Golden Silver


http://www.silverrecyclers.com/Calculators/coin_calculator.aspx

Wow, cool site. Thanks for the post. I am going to bookmark that one.

 

[golden silver]

No prob AG. If you look on the left side there are foreign coin silver break downs.

Golden Silver

 

[Happyspider]

Latest on coinflation shows a war nickel at 20x face value in silver (currently at .99) while a silver dime is at 12.7x FV in silver ($1.27).

-Happyspider

 

[Rich Hartford]

Happy spider,

You can easily pick up silver war nickels for way under melt. Not so with dimes.

 

[AGCoinHunter]

If I remember correctly, war nickels had magnesium added to them to make them harder to melt? Do smelters even accept war nickels for melt?

 

[Rich Hartford]

AG,

I don't think they will accept them.