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"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
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Is it a new discovery or one that's been around a while? Don't know the area.
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Came out of a very old error collection, passed through a couple of hands, I recently sent it to PCGS.
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
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Feel free to call me Will.
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Rest in Peace
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Pillar of the Community
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so 1920 WASN'T the last year they minted silver nickles....
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Pillar of the Community
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DUH, sorry I meant 1921 wasn't the last year, I will go back to drinking my coffee now  |
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I'm jealous! I am not a big error collector but I would certainly love to own this coin.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I am not a big error collector but I would certainly love to own this coin. I would too...  Nice one.SPP..  |
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Crazy looking coin with the legends half there.
Really special silver 5 Cent coin, one and only .800 silver 5 Cent.
The reverse looks to be pristine with the metal flowing into the
devices, nice torch and Victory V.
The obverse may have been a bit weaker due to the lack of available metal to flow.
Thanks for the pics, very cool.
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Pillar of the Community
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the coin was XRF @ .925 silver
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Pillar of the Community
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Interesting last point Nickelsguy. So this was not just a straight forward planchet error.
As you/SPP know well, there seems to have been an interesting little group of metal experiments at the mint in the 1942/43 time frame. At first I was thinking these were all some sort of test strikes. There wold be no reason to test a .925 silver though as a wartime measure. Now I am wondering if we had the parents of the 1969 mint employees guys working there then.....
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NFLD coins were still being stuck in .925 silver during this time... nickelsguy and I suspect it was struck on a NFLD 10-cent planchet, but PCGS would not agree with us... regardless, it is a breathtaking error...
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