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Maybe This Is Why The 1880 Nickel Had A Small Mint!

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 Posted 01/23/2014  09:33 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Hflirn to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
This piece for some reason always puts a smile on my face. I like to imagine some guy coming to work after a long night out in 1880 ( whatever they did back then) and having to deal with this miserable piece of planchet. On a more serious note ever since I acquired this awesome hunk of madness I've been meaning to research how it happened. If anyone wants to chime in have at it please. On what's supposed to be the obverse you can clearly see that whatever is lodged in the coin or was punched through was for the number 1. I didn't even touch this thing and left the circular grease stains right where they last laid. The fact it is an 1880 makes for a good story about the last coin that never was...even if it is or isn't true lol!

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 Posted 01/26/2014  10:36 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BluegrassRiver to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
No problem, this is easy. That guy coming back from work was in the construction trade doing plaster on walls. He would constantly be putting sandpaper in his pockets causing his coins distress like this. No doubt the puncture is from one night he came home late and drunk. He emptied his pockets. His wife picked up his coins in a screaming rage and threw them at him. This Shield nickel hit his hard belt buckle. 1880 was an eventful year.
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 Posted 01/25/2015  6:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Hflirn to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hahaha! I didn't see the post so sorry for the delayed response. That is a very detailed and awesome suggestion Bluegrass river.
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