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Bedrock of the Community
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Nice coin and DDO!  Errers and Varietys.
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never heard of 'wheel mark' before - time to go read up on that.  |
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Very nice doubled die! Maybe a discounted price you got?
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Is this coin is slabbed Details- Wheel Marks ?
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The coin is not slabbed. It was a cherrypick, although the dealer pictures almost completely hide the scrapes. I paid a fair price for a raw MS nickel, so it's hard to say who got the upper hand in that exchange. I am going to keep the coin—it is still a nice example of the variety.
I am not 100% positive on the wheel mark diagnosis. The scrape could have easily been caused by something else. It does fit the wheel mark description of fine lines that are hard to see head-on and easy to see at an angle.
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I am not 100% positive on the wheel mark diagnosis. Too obvious and big for wheel marks. The wheels in the counting machines are rubber and more or less "polish" the coin leaving fine hairlines seen if you tilt the coin under a light source. |
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I'm with my friend Marve65 (on this anyway  ). And it wouldn't surprise me if this was on the coin before it was struck. Maybe even remnants of a lamination issue? Words of encouragement are one of the major food groups.
We need to consume them regularly to thrive and grow.
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Nice cherrypick regardless! |
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Well, the scrape cuts through the rim and U in the pictures, with apparently moved metal. I don't think it's a lamination. I figured on a wheel mark because of the way the scrape runs right up and over the devices in a straight line. Usually a flat object scraping across the coin surface will get lifted by raised devices, causing an interruption in the fields. That doesn't really happen here, the scrapes look continuous.
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I think you want to attribute some 2023 DDRs for me. Pfffft. I stick to years where there are less than 200 varieties. =P Probably mentioned this on one of your 2023 threads, but I have a whole roll of just the 2023 WDDRs where the letter tops of the word Monticello have shadows. I even started a classification spreadsheet, but I just gave up. Maybe someday, an AI coin identified can do the work for me! Har, har. =) Edited by Brandmeister
02/05/2026 1:12 pm
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I'm with my friend Marve65 (on this anyway |
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Too obvious and big for wheel marks. That's why I asked my "slabbed" question. I have a Peace dollar in a details-wheel marks slab and it's really difficult to see the wheel marks...I was leaning towards lamanations, but you ruled those out....so you got me  and roller marks/damage from a gritty substance on the rollers would have been "stamped" out of the fields n devices during minting...right ? Neat looking nickel anyways |
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I have a few coins with pre-strike roller marks. The visible lines are barely ripples in the surface. On this nickel, I lightly moved a toothpick across the fields, and the tip immediately caught on the scratches. Definitely post-strike damage. Let's call it a scrape.
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Posted 02/04/2026 8:21 pm
Uncirculated American Silver Eagles 
