My best spare change find...

[Dirt_Hunter]

My best spare change find ever!

While going through my dads spare change I noticed this...
You just never know what you are gonna find.

 

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[Tedyoh]

A nickel, or am I missing something?

 

[bowwinkles]

1940 Nickle has some collector value, most cases under a dollar.

 

[Tedyoh]

.95 under a dollar?

 

[enamel7]

.95 under a dollar?

Yes, I agree. Worth 5¢.

 

[l.cutler]

Still nice to find a coin over 75 years old in change!

 

[Tedyoh]

Indeed, im wondering if the OP thought it was silver being pre 64? (as i once did many moons ago)

 

[Dirt_Hunter]

It is silver, right?

 

[Dirt_Hunter]

Yes, I agree. Worth 5¢.

Worth more than 5 cents, just think for a moment. This was being circulated one year before pearl harbor. It has historical value, not just silver value.

 

[l.cutler]

No silver in it but I agree about the historical value, I don't even think about the monetary value of my coins.

 

[Mackaydon]

I was circulating before Pearl Harbor so I, too, must have historical value.
Made my day; thanks.
Don......

 

[Dozer D]

Wouldn't it be nice if we could put a coin under a microscope and somehow extract it's DNA as to who touched it, & where it has been. Somewhat like the red stamp on bills of : "Where's George"?

 

[enamel7]

Worth more than 5 cents, just think for a moment. This was being circulated one year before pearl harbor. It has historical value, not just silver value.

Yes, I guess you can say it has historical value, but that's all. No silver.

 

[Dirt_Hunter]

I was circulating before Pearl Harbor so I, too, must have historical value.
Made my day; thanks.
Don......

You have more then just historical value!

 

[Dirt_Hunter]

Yes, I guess you can say it has historical value, but that's all. No silver.

Wow, I thought they contained silver. I guess that was only quarters and dimes...

 

[huntsman53]

Wouldn't it be nice if we could put a coin under a microscope and somehow extract it's DNA as to who touched it, & where it has been. Somewhat like the red stamp on bills of : "Where's George"?

If you had found it and held it in your' hands, you might not want to know where it came from! Besides the many thousands, if not millions of places that a Nickel from 1940 has been, it may have been accidentally or maybe intentionally swallowed and came out of who knows how many butt holes and covered with excrement.


Frank

 

[digger460]

If you had found it and held it in your' hands, you might not want to know where it came from! Besides the many thousands, if not millions of places that a Nickel from 1940 has been, it may have been accidentally or maybe intentionally swallowed and came out of who knows how many butt holes and covered with excrement.


Frank

Now who would be dumb enough to swallow a nickel? Now a penny, dime, or quarter I would understand

 

[coinsareawesome]

Wow, I thought they contained silver. I guess that was only quarters and dimes...

Exactly... It was only quarters and dimes. Nickels 1942-45 with a large mint mark on the back contain a small part silver. That is why many people save them. They are 35% silver.

 

[Tedyoh]

Wow, I thought they contained silver. I guess that was only quarters and dimes...

These are the mint marks you are looking for, 1942 - 45 as CAA mentioned, the only years they used this mint mark placement and size.....they needed the nickel for armor plating for the war so they replaced the nickel with silver.....also don't forget half dollars and dollars being silver as well along with dimes and quarters.

 

[cudamark]

Exactly... It was only quarters and dimes. Nickels 1942-45 with a large mint mark on the back contain a small part silver. That is why many people save them. They are 35% silver.

Halves and dollars before '64 were 90% silver also. Halves from '65-'70 are 40% silver. There were also modern mint sets and proof sets with silver coins in them. Occasionally, the sets get broken and end up in circulation, so, keep an eye out for those also.