Plated war nickels.

[1more4me]

Saw a thread a while back about a shiny war nickle.
Knew that I had several that were like that- but didn't realize how many! Anyway, dug all my war nickels out and sorted through them. Some found Detecting- most found CRHing. In fact - all those shiny ones come out of boxes maybe 2 yrs ago but did get a couple more mid-last Last year.

Anyone know for sure what the plating is?

It is definately added on to (on top of) well worn real nickels - have a close up of one where there must have been gunk on the coin and the plating did not stick so well.

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[fistfulladirt]

They look polished. A buffing wheel might give that effect.

 

[theekman]

I have one where the coating has flaked off in one part, i didnt know if it was fake or what i had never seen it before.

 

[CoinFetcher]

maybe their are ebayable

 

[wvwildman]

Metal Composition: 35% silver, 56% copper, 9% manganese

 

[jeff of pa]

there are a few Scam companies who Polish them,
so they can call them Bright Shiny war Nickels.
they probably came in a Card with a description of why they are 35% silver,
at a cost of 10 to 20 times their value.

because Some will automatically think they mean Bright Uncirculated
when they advertise as Bright Shiny, they catch allot of suckers

and yes it could be a shiny plate over them

 

[Generic_Lad]

Yep, what usually happens is these things are low grade then polished to heck to get rid of the green look, they are usually packaged in a "Wartime Coin" set with a steel penny and some of the common wheats from the '40s.

 

[1more4me]

Thanks for the replies.
I'm sure it's a fresh plating- just don't know if it's silver, chrome, nickel, paint or what... definately placed onto the coins after they had lived the wild life for a while.
Anyway- The 11 of them contain $18.60 in silver as of today- so if anyone wants them- make an offer that will cover shipping too. Otherwise- they'll just stay in the mason jar till the kids sell off my junk...
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[jeff of pa]

all I can say for sure it is not silver,

 

[Infector101]

They are definitely plated. I've found a few quarters like this and the reeding has no visible copper. I believe they are mercury plated. It gives a very shiny look to coins.

 

[agme]

They are definitely plated. I've found a few quarters like this and the reeding has no visible copper. I believe they are mercury plated. It gives a very shiny look to coins.

An oldtimer told me that years ago they used to "mercurize" silver coins by running a bead of mercury over the entire coin makeing them super shiny.

 

[hotrod]

cool nics!

 

[fixxxer9]

Wow did you get all those war nics from crhing? You have a lot of those.

 

[1more4me]

Wow did you get all those war nics from crhing? You have a lot of those.

Fixxer- the vast majority of them did- over the last two years and a bunch from doing it many many years ago.
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[fixxxer9]

Wow that is awesome