What Are The Odds Of This? (1999 P Nickel)

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Cud Valued Member United States 52 Posts	Posted 08/03/2023 10:10 pm Hey folks noobie here! * Edited by Staff to Add Year / Mintmark / Denomination to Title. It's very important to have in the title. * I'm trying to repair a surface defect on a 43 and I'm wondering what method would be best either filling it with JB Weld and sanding it down or get some high nickel content rod for the welder, turn amperage down all the way and try to just give it a real quick love tap and then grind it down with a Dremmel? Also Rustoleum makes a pretty good paint that would blend it all in nicely with either repair. Any thoughts? Thanks, Cud Report this Post to the Staff

Errers and Varietys Bedrock of the Community United States 73559 Posts	Posted 08/03/2023 10:20 pm To CCF! I am a bit confused by your question. Errers and Varietys. Report this Post to the Staff
Dearborn Moderator United States 94570 Posts	Posted 08/03/2023 10:24 pm repair a steel cent? Hold off a minute please. Before you do anything drastic and possibly ruin something, can you post up an image of this coin first? Collecting since 1972. Learning from then on "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin 7070 type set coin count: 51/76 Uncirculated American Silver Eagles My American Silver Eagle Proof Collection Sacagawea Dollars Innovation Dollars Eisenhower-Dollars Kennedy-Half Dollars Washington-Quarters Roosevelt-Dimes Buffalo-Nickels 1938-2005 Jefferson-Nickels Lincoln-Cents Report this Post to the Staff
Dearborn Moderator United States 94570 Posts	Posted 08/03/2023 10:25 pm On the other side, I hope you are pulling our legs here. Collecting since 1972. Learning from then on "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin 7070 type set coin count: 51/76 Uncirculated American Silver Eagles My American Silver Eagle Proof Collection Sacagawea Dollars Innovation Dollars Eisenhower-Dollars Kennedy-Half Dollars Washington-Quarters Roosevelt-Dimes Buffalo-Nickels 1938-2005 Jefferson-Nickels Lincoln-Cents Report this Post to the Staff
Cud Valued Member United States 52 Posts	Posted 08/03/2023 10:33 pm I'm sorry I couldn't resist! I was joking. Like going onto a heart surgeon board and asking if they recommend using a gas or electric chain saw #128518; I digress. I'm totally new to numismatics but have been going through my 30 years of collected change and have found a lot of nice coins. Some variety and errors and some in just really good shape. My real question is this: what are the odds of finding multiple coins(1999 p Jeffersons) with the same die chip? Thanks for real :) Cud Report this Post to the Staff
Spence Moderator United States 34393 Posts	Posted 08/04/2023 04:23 am @cud, first welcome to CCF. Second, since dies are used to strike bajillions of cents, it is highly likely that there are many duplicates struck showing essentially the same die chip. I would think that you would most likely find this situation with buying coins directly from the mint as these are more likely to have been manufactured at the same time then looking through bank rolls. Potentially more interesting of an exercise is to find multiple cents with the same die chip, but in different states of progression. A couple years back, someone here did this with the so-called hornet's nest die chip on the eave of the Lincoln Memorial on cents. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 08/04/2023 09:15 am How about a pic? to the CCF! Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 187446 Posts	Posted 08/04/2023 09:18 am to the Community! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
ijn1944 Bedrock of the Community United States 19106 Posts	Posted 08/04/2023 09:26 am Pics--large and sharp--might prove fun. Report this Post to the Staff
Cud Valued Member United States 52 Posts	Posted 08/04/2023 10:39 am Good morning folks! Thank you all and to Spence for the reply. The "SMART" phone isn't letting me browse for pics right this minute so that will have to wait. The chip is on reverse, far right side just below roofline...probably much like the beehive Spence mentioned. I have several from 99 showing progressive chips then one from 00 and one from 01. The question is rarity. The chip couldn't have been on the master hub otherwise all P coins would have it. It had to have been on either a working hub or master die that got used infrequently. Does anyone know the lifespan of hubs/dies? All I can find is that a working anvil lasts maybe 2 days. Report this Post to the Staff
january1may Pillar of the Community Russian Federation 5172 Posts	Posted 08/04/2023 11:31 am Quote: Does anyone know the lifespan of hubs/dies? A die chip is almost always on the die; that's why it's called a die chip. AFAIK the usual lifespan of a die is roughly 100,000 struck coins; I'm not sure how much is that in terms of working days. Judging by how huge modern mintages are, 2 days sounds like about the right order of magnitude, though I'd expect it would be closer to a week. [EDIT: reportedly it's actually about six hours.] OTOH, as correctly mentioned by Spence, coins struck in close succession by the same die are likely to have ended up in the same mint bag, and thus in circulation in the same area; so finding several examples of the same die chip in short succession is a lot less rare than it sounds like because of this factor. Note that similar die chips in easily-chippable positions could easily occur independently on different dies; the BIE series on 1950s Lincoln cents provide a well-known example. This could explain your 2000 and 2001 examples. Report this Post to the Staff
Cujohn Pillar of the Community United States 7174 Posts	Posted 08/04/2023 3:32 pm Ah man, I was waiting for the after welding and grinding pics. What a let down. to the CCF Report this Post to the Staff
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