1976 Jefferson Nickel On Foreign Planchette ( 5 Pence)

can you post up 2 more images?
one held with that 5 pence so we can see a comparison of the edges? (like the one you did with that other nickel - or is that the 5 pence?)
and, one with the nickel in question sitting flat on top of a normal nickel?
I just want to see a comparison of size next to another normal nickel.

Hi Spence,i don't think it is..but I'm no expert. What makes me think not is the thinness and how the "in god we trust" seems to bee rolled over the slope. If it was acid surly that lettering would be gone. It quite hard to explain over text.

Thanks for the extra images, they are great.
If I didn't know any better I would say that 'slope' you mention looks like a Ridge Ring, But I have never seen one on a nickel before.
I want to go with acid dipped at this point, but I'm open to other explanations. I don't think it was struck on a 5 pence planchet though.

I understand, you have the coin in hand and it is far easier to tell what it is than we can. But, from what I can see, the 5 pence coin is Much thicker than the 'nickel' and still weighs the same just doesn't make sense.
The diameter is roughly the same size, so we can rule out flattening or stretching of a planchet. I cannot explain the thinness and slightly smaller diameter, by use of a foreign planchet. If anything, it would get pushed up against the collar and for the rim better, but that is not the case either.

Everything on this coin is reduced and the surface is pitted and the devices on it are almost gone as it they were dissolved with acid.

All I see is a typical acid job.

to the CCF

I have to go with Mike Diamond - acid soaked coin it is.

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