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kitsy Valued Member Canada 182 Posts	Posted 05/19/2011 7:02 pm Anyone come across anything like this before.......looks like it was living in a freezer ..... ha.....cheers Report this Post to the Staff

Ugly Pillar of the Community Canada 1733 Posts	Posted 05/19/2011 7:17 pm 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..) Report this Post to the Staff
Darth Anarchus Pillar of the Community United States 1388 Posts	Posted 05/19/2011 9:09 pm that's pretty wild looking... Report this Post to the Staff
Tam Valued Member United States 200 Posts	Posted 05/19/2011 11:30 pm 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. Report this Post to the Staff
uncle al Valued Member Canada 311 Posts	Posted 05/20/2011 01:24 am 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. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10459 Posts	Posted 05/20/2011 01:51 am 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. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
kitsy Valued Member Canada 182 Posts	Posted 05/20/2011 09:02 am Don't see any + + + + + and the surface on the lettering is the same....thanks all for your opnion's......... Report this Post to the Staff
pennylover1010 Valued Member Canada 200 Posts	Posted 05/20/2011 9:34 pm Looks like it has been a pocket with sand. Report this Post to the Staff
uncle al Valued Member Canada 311 Posts	Posted 05/20/2011 10:25 pm 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. Report this Post to the Staff
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