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Valued Member
United States
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Hello all, wondering your thoughts on this one. It weighs 5.1g, is the same diameter and thickness of a nickel. It is non magnetic and looks to be made of copper. Thank you for the help.   |
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Canada
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Weird. I have no expertise in the matter but I'd sure love to own one.
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United States
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Interesting. Maybe made by a private mint or company.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Does the ANA have an example, or a photo record of it? If this piece is the product of the U.S. Mint, they or the ANA, would almost CERTAINLY have some information on it. Krause also maintains a reasonably good photo record of U.S. Mint trials and patterns. Because of their high potential value, private copies (fakes?) are sometimes made of these. Another possibility is that it may just be a private fantasy piece. If that is the case, perhaps no record of it may exist. Edited by sel_69l
12/02/2013 06:54 am
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The logo reminds me of a Franklin Mint mark. Is that tiny, tiny writing underneath it?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That is a beautiful piece IMHO. In digging a little bit about trial pieces, I found this article in Coin World: Mint begins trials strikes in composition tests http://www.coinworld.com/articles/m...osition-testQuote:
Jefferson 5-cent coin: homogenous alloy of 75 percent copper, 25 percent nickel. Has anyone viewed the trial patterns? While I really like your specimen, I am a little doubtful that it is a trial piece...but one can hope!  |
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 United States
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Very cool,i will be waiting for info on this  John1  |
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United States
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Has anyone viewed the trial patterns? Not them unfortunately.  This piece looks more like a cast than struck, any way to get a close up of the lone obverse mark? What's the stuff over Monticello? Clouds? Almost looks like it may have been struck over another coin or medallion perhaps? A Monticello token of some sort but the fact of the IGWT and EPU motto, the inclusion of the FIVE CENTS say otherwise. Very interesting what ever it is.  "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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An ultra high res shot of the 7 o'clock position on the "blank" side may reveal some info. One thing to note...on the Monticello side..there is a die crack at 1 o'clock, which makes me think that there were many of these struck in order to crack a die as well as some die wear evident around the rim area. Seems to me that this wasn't a low volume issue
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Valued Member
 United States
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I looked at the description of when I bought it. It says that it was a US test nickel from the Interbranch Mint for Toronto, On. So would that make this a fantasy piece. I do not know if the US allowed outside mints strike US test coins. I was thinking the same as (westcoin) stated about putting the EPU and IGWT and 5 CENTS on the coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Is that a JM mint mark on the blank side ?
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Have to giggle a bit....the " In God We Trust" looks more like " In God Wet Rust"...:-)
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United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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My guess would be that this is a privately made example of one of the 1938 Jefferson nickel proposed designs. There are about four or five of the contest entries that have been made by various companies during the past ten years or so. |
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Australia
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In reviewing all of the previous posts in this thread, I have a feeling that this piece is not a product of the U.S. Mint.
I will admit that my knowledge in this area is scant.
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Posted 12/02/2013 06:23 am
