3 Cent Nickel Found

Wow! What a great find. It's finds like this that keep you pumped as well as others. Congrats.

Nice find!

Great find!

Thanks everybody! The coin looks better in hand than the picture. I believe the dark spots are actually dirt but I don't want to mess with it too much. It looks like a couple of small die breaks on the reverse near the rim at 1 and 3:30. I assume this was fairly common with this coin.

John, I lack the skills to say whether or not it's been cleaned. I can tell you that in hand, I see no signs of it, but that doesn't mean much.

OO

I noticed the die clashes were common. I was kind of hoping mine had one, just because I think the one's I saw on ebay look neat. It really shows up well on the reverse, with all the flat surface around the III.

OO

Very nice! I found a Three Cent piece in a coin machine reject shoot once (and I think one or two other people here have as well), but that's the first one I've seen found in a roll on the forum before!
Well done!

-XoG

owass congrats glad you had some luck finding something amazing I know we havent had that much luck with halves lately ( till today anyway ha)

Thanks guys!

Broseph, I envision some thug stealing someone's coin collection and then just dumping it in one of the self service coin counters to avoid any chance of getting caught.

Part of the fun in finding these old coins is guessing how they ended up there.

OO