Mwfhawk wrote:
Los I will buy every silver 3 cent piece you have for a dollar each. Just think you will be making a 66% return. Lol
Lmao! Nice try.
The economy has not had any effect on numismatics values. Other than raising the value of silvers and golds out of the average collectors’ budgets even if they still have income.
Formerly slug 3s are now over the $20 mark.
How many people have actually seen a pattern strike nickel. The above numbers were the basic release for the nickel. From 43-45 all sorts of test strikes and patterns were Made.
I have a 90% silver test strike nickel. (I’ll post a photo later).
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I had it slabbed at one point before deciding the arbitrary “grade”, obviously low, detracted from the actually rarity of the piece.
I don’t collect coins much but like computer storage I have a thing for collecting the bizarre.
There is already discussion of turning the nickel into a nickel coated zinc piece.
War and economic turmoil make for weird ideas in money. The civil war silver shortage brought us nickel (the metal) coins. Silver and gold hoarding brought us silver and gold certificates. During the Great War we got strange underweight quarters. In the depression aluminium tests were made for pennies and dimes.
Along with silver nickels, WWII gave us both steel and Brass pennies in normal circulation on purpose.
But all sorts of test strikes were made. Aluminium pennies. High alloy silver nickels. Tin. Bronze. Testing was done for the first time on what would become the current post 80s penny. Clad coins can be found in this period as well. Many of these tests were dumped into circulation. By accident or on purpose. Samples given to congress wound up in private collections.
Selling them is always iffy and you occasion hear about (from the collection world) large scale SS confiscations when these things come to auction. Other times they appear to have no concern (a wooden penny from 67 sold without bother).
For me? No chance I’m giving up my 3s for that price. Not any time soon. But agin: nice try!
For everyone else, you can see how bored I am at the moment.