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 Posted 10/24/2011  9:29 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Tees1tee to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Any reason why anybody would stamp an capital A on a 1958 Nickel
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Nickel-A
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 Posted 10/24/2011  9:40 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coinsearcher83 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Nope, not really...

I have a quarter someone engraved "CAM" on... Probably someone's initials.

The "A" may have been a store promotion, or just someone messing with a metal stamper...
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I have a Morgan with initials carved into it. I have puzzled over it for years --trying to guess the meaning or purpose. Sadly I think it is meaningless.

At least your nickel looks like somebody was 'engraving' rather than carving...although it seems to be stamped -- but nickel requires a lot of pressure to stamp. My poor old Morgan was probably scratched with a nail.
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Thanks just checking
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A birthyear gift for Nicola?

A visual answer to "What is this?" - "It's A Nickel."?

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To be first in the phone book?
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He had a new set of letter punches. It's kind of like when you give a kid his first hammer, the whole world becomes a nail.
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