Low-Quality Nickels in ’40s and ’50s
Oct 29, 2021
2 minutes
By Richard Giedroyc
■ It appears the Philadelphia-minted nickels look grainy and dark throughout the 1940s and into the 1950s. Do you have any information or observations on this?
It appears a combination of poor quality die steel, weak strikes and problems with the annealing process
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