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Hello and thanks in advance for the help. I came across this guy in a bag of V nickels and am curious to get others thoughts. The date certainly looks like 1885, but its heavily worn / damaged and maybe even intentionally manipulated?     Thanks again! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think the lighting in the last image shows it is a 1895 but it's hard to tell.
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I can't say for sure.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I see toast. If you're looking to fill a book set, I'd keep on looking. JMHO & happy hunting.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Second 8 may be a modified 9. Tough to tell but as the kids say, that 3rd digit in the date looks 'sus.'
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Second 8 may be a modified 9 I think I can see that.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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I'd like it to be an 1885, but I'm just about positive that's a 1895. The shape of the top loop is wrong for an 1885 and the tail of the 9 is just too narrow to be the bottom loop of an 8.
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Label it as a curiosity for now and keep searching.  |
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