Store change find

[aa battery]

Went to buy a beer and the guy gave me my change and one coin looked strange. It was a nickel With a big S on it. Yupp a 1943 war nickel S in good shape. Guess somebody just didnt know what it was when they spent it.

 

[Plumbata]

Nice find, I always thought the War nickels were particularly interesting as far as US silver coins go.

A silver dime weighed 2.5 grams (2.25g silver) and a half dime was half of that , 1.25g (1.125g silver) but a 5 gram War Nickel contains 1.75 grams of silver, so dollar for dollar they have more silver than any other US coin, quite a noteworthy aspect to an otherwise humble denomination!

 

[Whyme]

Nice find! I used to do a lot of coin roll hunting and I would find a lot of war nickels.

 

[BLK HOLE]

Wait a minute....Beer and a War Nickel!!! Touchdown!!!

 

[aa battery]

Wait a minute....Beer and a War Nickel!!! Touchdown!!!

yes and the coin payed for the beer

 

[Ogre1190]

Nice!!! 🙌 Dunno why...but I really like War Nickels. I gotta '43P in change about a month ago, too.

 

[A2coins]

Well done I always look for those

 

[Hawks88]

I like the old war nickels. Congrats

 

[Argentium]

I think you have a better chance of getting silver in change with War Nickels , than any other denomination. ( without coin roll hunting)

 

[basque-man]

Great eye!!! Nothing wrong with silver any way you can get it. !!!

 

[sjvalleyhunter]

More importantly, what brand beer did you buy and why did you only buy one?

 

[Rookster]

Nice job.Congrats

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice find. A lot of people (who don't collect coins) don't know that War Nickels are 35% silver. Then again, most people don't bother to check their coins like we do !

 

[Plumbata]

So I was looking at yearly average historical Silver prices, and from 1959 onward the value of the silver was greater than the face value of War Nickels.

1.00 of war nickels contains 35 grams of silver, or 1.124 Troy oz, so at prices of 0.90/ozt or higher the silver value exceeds 5 cents a coin. In 1964, with silver at 1.29/ozt, a dollar of 90% silver coins only contained 93 cents in silver, whereas the dollar of war nickels had 1.45 worth of silver.

You'd think the war nickels would have been hoarded earlier and even more energetically than the 90% silver, but as already observed they are still found occasionally in circulation. I'm glad the mint created these unusual coins.

 

[aa battery]

More importantly, what brand beer did you buy and why did you only buy one?

cheap beer and 1 because i dont want to get in trouble.

 

[sjvalleyhunter]

cheap beer and 1 because i dont want to get in trouble.

Sometimes cheap beer is the best. I still owe you a beer or three from helping me out a number of years ago.

 

[aa battery]

Sometimes cheap beer is the best. I still owe you a beer or three from helping me out a number of years ago.

i forgot what i did.

 

[against the wind]

Went to buy a beer and the guy gave me my change and one coin looked strange. It was a nickel With a big S on it. Yupp a 1943 war nickel S in good shape. Guess somebody just didnt know what it was when they spent it.

No pictures??

 

[sjvalleyhunter]

i forgot what i did.

You got me into this hobby when I spoke with you at Hammer Field.

 

[aa battery]

You got me into this hobby when I spoke with you at Hammer Field.

oh yea