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Valued Member
Canada
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Anyone come across anything like this before.......looks like it was living in a freezer .....  ha.....cheers |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1733 Posts |
I have never seen this on a coin before.
Looks like it's a plating error, I've had similar results on car emblems where I messed up the plating (bad cleaning or forgot a copper plate, etc..)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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that's pretty wild looking...  |
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Valued Member
United States
200 Posts |
Maybe it's my eyes or the pic., but I see a lot of + + + + + all around the obverse and reverse. If so, my thinking is some transfer of some material to the coin surface, what I cannot say.
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Valued Member
Canada
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I have seen this before, but I cannot remember the circumstances of where or when. Is the top surface of the letters also pitted like this? It is hard to make out. I will give a guess when I learn of the letters. I will try and remember the circumstances of the one coin I had like this. Still, an interesting nickel.  |
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Moderator
 Canada
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Yes, I have seen that on a PL coin. Some sort of surface oxidation pattern I think. I can't remember what year that coin was struck.
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Valued Member
 Canada
182 Posts |
Don't see any + + + + + and the surface on the lettering is the same....thanks all for your opnion's.........
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Valued Member
Canada
200 Posts |
Looks like it has been a pocket with sand.
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Valued Member
Canada
311 Posts |
I agree with Pennylover1010 and the sand theory.  I do a lot of childrens play areas, with my metal detector, especially where they use sand boxes. I believe that is what has happened to this nickel. I have dug up coins with this type of surface in sand boxes before.  |
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Posted 05/19/2011 9:09 pm
