Light nickel

[Twitch]

While I was not finding silver yesterday I found a nickel that felt light in hand. I put it on the scale today and it weighed out at 4.58g. It's not in great shape. This appears to be outside the normal distribution of weight for a nickel. The obverse surface doesn't quite look 'normal', but it doesn't exactly look corroded either. What are the possibilities for what happened to this coin?

 

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[Argentium]

uncirculated mint weight is listed at 5 grams - if its bounced around awhile wouldn't minus .42 of a gram be a believable deficit ?

 

[LooseChange]

What is the year and mint mark? Could it be a Henning?
The '44 Henning was heavier than genuine. The '53 and others are said to vary from too light to too heavy.
Look at the "PLURIBUS" 'R' for the telltale.

 

[jrc79inNC]

Is the 44 Henning the famous set of counterfeits a New Jersey man made dated 1944 but without the mintmark on the Monticello? The same ones that he stopped making when he realized it cost him to make each one at six cents each?

 

[LooseChange]

Is the 44 Henning the famous set of counterfeits a New Jersey man made dated 1944 but without the mintmark on the Monticello? The same ones that he stopped making when he realized it cost him to make each one at six cents each?

The '44 is the easiest one to detect because it did not have the large mintmark. He made other dates as well but the reverse was the same for most (or maybe all) dates and will have the defect in the 'R'.

At the time, the counterfeits did not cost more than face value to produce. That is something new.

 

[Twitch]

It's definitely not a Henning, it's just a nickel from the 90's that's outside the normal weight range I see. I would love to find a Henning but I assume they're hard to come by these days.

Thanks.

 

[50cent]

Henning's sons back at it,