The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 14, April 4, 2004, Article 18

HENNING NICKEL FAKES

  Regarding our discussion of the counterfeit U.S. nickels
  made in the 1950s, Jørgen Sømod writes: "I remember Bob
  Leonard showed me that fake at the numismatic congress in
  Berlin 1997, but I am not sure, I said the dies were simply
  cast. I also remember Bob told me, that it for Henning was
  necessary to have a coin if he should make dies. I concluded
  the Henning dies were made in style how Josef Majnert did.
  Josef Majnert, who lived in the middle of 19th century was
  a son of a mint director in Warsaw. Josef Majnert made
  impressions of extremely rare Polish coins and from the
  impressions casts in iron were made. These casts were then
  used as poincons from which dies were made."

  [My copy of "The Counterfeit 1944 Jefferson Nickel" by
  Dwight H. Stuckey arrived this week, and it was a very
  interesting read.   With research based on U.S. Secret
  Service and local police documents, interviews with
  collectors, and published stories in the local and numismatic
  press, Stuckey weaves an interesting portrait of
  counterfeiter Francis Leroy Henning and his nickels.
  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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