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Thursday, December 22, 2011

More WWII Nickels!

 These are two 1942-P nickels with many differences and very few similarities. First, I will start with the similarities. They were struck at the same mint, they have the same design, and they both contain copper. Now for the differences. The one on the left is made of copper and nickel like nickels today's nickels, the one on the right is made of copper, manganese, and silver, it has a mint mark above the dome as opposed to the one on the left with no mint mark, and the one on the right has a die crack from the "P" in "Pluribus" to the top of the dome on Monticello making it worth about $0.75 more than its approximate $1.84 for silver value. The one on the left is worth about $0.30 in VF-20.

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