Counterfeit Jeff

[*smedley*]

found in a bulk Buff lot...

edit: oops... said Jeff...

[koindog]

...oops...I got caught...

[elheron-grande]

Hola Sr. Smedley...! That is very interesting.  Is that fake Nickel a cast coin or a milled coin. My eyes are not good enough now-a-days to see details.  

[*smedley*]

i think it's struck from spark erosion-made dies...

[elheron-grande]

Hola Sr. Smedley...! Thank you for the informacion.  Heron read an article about some counterfeiters making fake Nickels.  Many years ago.  Possible article in the ANA monthly magazine.  It is only a vague memory at this time.  However, Heron does remember that the mass production of fake Nickels were sent to the bottom of a river. The counterfeiters apparently got word somehow that the Feds were going to nail them. So, they dumped the evidence.  Perhaps your fake Nickel is part of that 'dumped' batch?  

[*smedley*]

ah, you're thinking of the Henning counterfeits... they're easy to id because they have war nick dates, mine is a 1944, don't remember if all of them are the same date, and they don't have a mintmark above Monticello...

i got one of those in a mixed lot 20-25 years ago...

[elheron-grande]

Hola Sr. Smedley...! Yes, that is the history the Alt Heron was trying to remember.  An interesting part of numismatic history.  Thank you.