1913 Liberty Head V Nickel

Nah, they had a stunt nickel to do the dangerous scenes.

So if you have a 1913 Liberty, it's a certainty that date was added later.

And knowing the poorly chosen stunt doubles used for network TV shows, one can easily see that a current Jefferson nickel was used instead of another Liberty Head nickel!

Actually a tremendous number of the 1913's are 1910's. I knew the guy in Louisville who used to help them reach thir higher potential.

Ahh Geez, Liberty Heads. Some of you won't believe this. When I was a pup Libs weren't too hard to find in change. Most were dinged up and pretty worn but I recall readable dates. Same goes for IHCs.... not too common but certainly not rare.

Man I feel old.

The 1913 Liberty nickel cannot really be compared to the 1933 $20. The 1933 Double Eagle was supposed to be a regular issue and almost 450,000 were struck. Then Franklin recalled gold coins(illegally I might add) and almost all of them were melted but one theory is that Israel Switt had an insider in the Mint that switched the 1933s with coins from another date so the melt counts would still be correct. The ten that recently turned up were discovered by the daughter of Israel Switt and he may have obtained as many as 25 1933s. The 1913 Liberty nickel was a clandestine striking and they were not meant to be business strikes so there were no large production numbers.

Granted, a lot happened at mints where we'll never exactly know, but a lack of information in of itself doesn't prove any claim. I can only guess that whenever an unusual coin turns up, it's subjected to the rigors of expert scrutiny to see if the claim holds true. As in many areas of study, this is arrived at expert consensus--which which is a bit outside the merits of our forum, even if a photo of this coin were provided.