Found This In A Jar!

Yeah, the dime strike thought was just me grasping at straws. I actually think the planchet had to have gone into the press damaged. I looked at it through 20X magnifying glasses and there is no other image on the coin. It's odd. It looks like a fallen cake would look like if you slammed the oven door while baking. Do you think it's possible someone slammed the oven door on this coin? (lol) I'm really tempted to try to clean the coin of those stains, especially on the obverse but I don't want to destroy any of it's value. It's back in it's homemade 2 X 2 and stapled into a binder until I can figure out what to do with it. It will remain in the collection no matter what!

If you are suggesting the damage occurred after market then I would think there would be damage to the image or lettering. It's a circular indentation that goes out as far as the rim on the left side of the coin yet there isn't even a nick on any of the denticles or lettering. The beaver tail remains full without a nick and there isn't a hair out of place on the beaver's body! It's very difficult for me to believe that I could take an object of some sort and smash down without even minor damage to the image or anything inside the strike zone! I'm open to suggestion. As I said earlier, I found another nickel dated 1994 with similar but not as drastic damage as this coin exhibits. The '94 is also dirtier which stands to reason because it was in circulation whereas the '84 was not. In the meantime I'll see what I can do to get better photos of the '84.