Thoughts On This 1873 3-Cent Nickel

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Scropper CCF Sponsor United States 702 Posts	Posted 11/05/2012 01:24 am Just curious to get your thoughts and reactions on this one... Thank you! Report this Post to the Staff

Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 11/05/2012 1:20 pm Looks like an open 3 with environmental damage. Report this Post to the Staff
IndianGoldEagle Bedrock of the Community United States 36745 Posts	Posted 11/05/2012 1:48 pm Looks like the surface was pitted then cleaned. Still a good hole filler for a 3 Cent Nickel collection. Report this Post to the Staff
Scropper CCF Sponsor United States 702 Posts	Posted 11/06/2012 10:28 am Excellent! That was my take. Thank you. I picked this up for my site along with a gaggle of other coins at a shop I regular. I didn't look too closely at the time. When I got back to the CoinCave to grade and schedule it for sale, I had a closer look and realized the surfaces were all wrong. I didn't look at it with a loupe and thought immediately "counterfeit". At first glance, the surfaces looked cast, what with gouges and incursions, the date looked wrong, and some of the edges seemed soft. So I set it aside because of course I'm never going to sell any bum stuff on my site. Then a week or so ago, I picked it up for another look, this time with the loupe. After looking at the edges hard (especially the III on the rev) and the shape of the date, I figured it was indeed environmental damage. I wanted to make sure I wasn't nuts and that I wasn't "seeing what I wanted to see." Thanks for the help! Report this Post to the Staff
ExoGuy Pillar of the Community United States 4416 Posts	Posted 11/06/2012 12:20 pm I've never seen a contemporary counterfeit CN Three Cent piece, but I have seen some contemporary counterfeit trimes. A buddy of mine showed me a Chinese counterfeit CN Three Cent piece which he found mixed in a bag of world coins. I now forget the date on it, but it was a proof-only year. While it didn't look like a proof to me, I was otherwise unable to tell if it was good. He confirmed my suspicion that it might be fake when he showed it to a TPG rep at a coin show. Sure does look like ED on this subject coin, but it's still a decent looking piece to my old eyes. Report this Post to the Staff
nicscoin Valued Member 107 Posts	Posted 11/06/2012 2:06 pm Looks heavily damaged, corroded. Report this Post to the Staff
Scropper CCF Sponsor United States 702 Posts	Posted 11/13/2012 7:24 pm I agree ExoGuy, it would be strange to make a base-metal counterfeit of a nickel. I don't know what nickel ore prices were like in the 1870's, but it seems to me there wouldn't be much to gain. Thank you all again for your feedback on this one! Report this Post to the Staff
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