1907 V Nickel Clad Layer Coming Up

This is a great Lamination error and it's huge! This will be worth a good premium. Some people would call this a "Clamshell" since the Lamination is deep and large. See this link. http://www.doubledimes.com/Clamshell.html

You're welcome! I am glad everyone is learning on here. Keep posting and asking questions!

To me it looks like it was in some sort of holder because the stars on the west side seem AU and the stars on the right side seem worn. So my first thought was it was at the end of a watch fob or something.

I have so much to learn.....

, look how those crack lines go all the way down to the denticles .

Note the area is a different color. Not a damaged coin. It a lamination issue.

A submission eligible coin. Be sure to have great edge photos before submitting if you do.

The feature quantifying this coin is TPG-independent. The people who want this coin don't care much about TPG's, or the strict grade. I am concerned by the "strip"-like look of the laminated area, thinking it might be a struck-through element which adhered to the coin rather than falling away, but if that's true the value of the piece would not be affected or even possibly improved. It's large enough so if my theory were true, the weight of the coin would be noticeably greater than "normal," so you could measure that.

The rise of the lamination sure looks deliberate, like someone pryed it, and that would negatively affect the value.

This one needs an opinion from Diamond or Weinberg.

OK, the weight is appropriate, and had something external been struck into the coin it would have been a few tenths (or more) heavy. Next logical conclusion is that something became laminated to the original strip from which the planchets were punched, leading to a normal weight planchet with a "stripe." It has acquired patina differently than the rest of the coin, leading me to wonder if it's of the same composition. I have to wonder what an XRF analyzer would think of it.