Smoking Jefferson Nickel 1964

We most certainly can. A LOT of people here understand the minting process extremely well. They know what can and cannot happen during the minting process. This should be every single collector's very first goal. I can't stress that enough. Makes collecting so much easier.

Imagine going trout fishing, you get there and realize you have no idea what a trout is. Woops

This is what probably 90% or better of coin collectors do, they look through coin after coin for hours on end, looking for errors.... but they have no idea what an error is or how they happen. If you understand the minting process and know what can and can't happen, your coin gets thrown in the junk bucket immediately and you move on and never look back. You don't sit there and try to figure out what happened, because you know it can't happen during the minting process

I'll give you an example, I'm going through coins and find this...



I KNOW it's an error immediately because I KNOW this is what happens when the edge of a die breaks off. If I flip the coin over, I know there will be weakness on the other side opposite the Cud because the reverse has no resistance on the other side.

to the CCF

I see a damaged coin. Does not really matter how it became damaged, it did not leave the mint like this.

Agreed, This has been altered with the addition of the bezel around the coin and the area in front of the mouth has been damaged somehow - How? is something we may never know.

This is 149KB.

By he way the limit is file size only (bytes), not pixels. Most of my images are side-by-sides, usually 1500x750 and still under 300KB.

What do you mean? I'm not totally convinced ced it was tooled or anything. I personally like the coin just for the idea that there aren't any others like it. It is unique. Definitely a conversation piece.

Just like the Hobo nickels we see floating around here at times.

Regardless of your opinion of it being junk or not it has most definitely become a conversation piece. To me just the uniqueness of it is interesting. I have never seen anything like it and thought I should share it with people that would know about it. I am not an expert but it doesn't appear to be created purposely. I thought maybe during minting a piece of metal was between the die and coin. Is this not possible? I understand that would probably do something on the other side or is that only when part of the die is missing? If that isn't possible then I rest my case. Junk or not it is interesting.