Interesting Rim Damage (2006l 5-Cent)

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LaureateBust Valued Member Canada 331 Posts	Posted 08/28/2012 3:49 pm I have a 2006 (logo) 5-cent piece (seems anachronistic to call it a nickel) that has some rim damage, and I'm wondering if this happened in the mint after striking or is some PMD. The rim has multiple flattened portions that appear to have occurred from angled impact(s). I've attached a photo of the biggest impact - you can see the surface of the biggest impact is very smooth. The impacts are at 12 o'clock (biggest), 1 o'clock and 3 o'clock on the obverse, and 11 o'clock, 2 o'clock and 5 o'clock (2nd biggest) on the reverse. The fields bend near the major impacts where the lips were created when the coin was deformed. Otherwise the coin is high AU like you'd expect. If there was only one impact my theory would be that it was a near-clip. Any ideas? Report this Post to the Staff

SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10463 Posts	Posted 08/28/2012 3:58 pm You sometimes see those marks on larger coins, always in the same spot, which could have formed from the ejection of the coin after the strike. "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 Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
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