1943-P Jefferson Nickel - Possible Counterfeit or Real??

[CoinFaerie]

Coin rolling and found this war nickel and it stuck to my little magnet, not tightly but secure enough to hold itself mid air. If I shifted the coin it would eventually fall off..but if near the magnet again it will connect and stick...first ever experienced.

WEIGHT: 4.790g

looked up counterfeits but couldn’t find the same markings as theirs I googled..also a bunch of counterfeits I googled were all overweight...

what else shall I try..

[jfines69]

I moved your thread to Off Topic Discussion... The weight of a nickel is suppose to be 5 grams not sure on the plus or minus weight tho... Here is a link that gives info on the different coins https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5112 as defined by law... I do not remember if there was any steel in the war nickels but there are numerous folks here that should be able to help!!!

[CoinFaerie]

Thanks for the link I’ll take a look at it ...

[jfines69]

Thanks for the link I’ll take a look at it ...

I am going to be going thru it later myself again... I originally went thru it for the one cent and now you have peaked my interest on the weight and metal content Cool!!!

[Maineman750]

Here is a thread that has a 1943 nickel also attracted to a magnet https://www.cointalk.com/threads/war-nickel-attracted-to-magnet.214926/

[Petespockets55]

That's really interesting.
So maybe it is struck on a "pre-silver" planchet?

[Maineman750]

That's really interesting.
So maybe it is struck on a "pre-silver" planchet?

If you get on the link I posted....it almost sounds like it may just be that the alloys weren't mixed all that well

[Petespockets55]

Thanks Roger.
I'm not familiar with the composition of pre-war nickels vs. silver war time ones. I should have looked it up to follow that post better.
I'll have to reread the info on the link because I don't remember silver being mentioned in any of the comments so I jumped the gun and thought they were talking about pre- silver planchets as a possibility.
Transitional wartime planchets made sense because it happened with the Lincoln's of '43/'44.
I also found it interesting that there was metal in them that would attract a magnet.