1971-S 5 Cent Jeff Proof W/ Dropped Letter?!!

Neat and with his looking exactly the same I would say it wasn't lamination . I look forward to an update if you get it attributed or whatever happens next.....

Your right Conder101, a hubbed through scenario would explain their existence. But when the hubbed through incident occurred, was it isolated to just one defective working die being produced or could it (unknown object) have stuck to the hub and produced multiples? (I have a general understanding of how the master to hub to working die process works, but it does get confusing when you factor in the positive/negative relief factors throughout the entire process. Like a struck through working die would produce a depressed anomaly {- relief}, whereas a struck through hub would produce a raised anomaly {+ relief}. Right? I still have much to learn before I will be able to fluently comprehend the process.)
I'm just baffled as to why there has not been more of these blatantly obvious PROOF error nickels discovered in the last 40+ years!
My only explanation is the fact that they were proof strikes or that QC at the mint must have been much better in the early 70's than in recent years.
Case in point, the hubbed through/damaged dies for the 2004-D Wisconsin High/Low Leaf variety that the mint failed to notice until an estimated 20,000 coins had already left the mint!
IMHO, these two known Proof nickels exhibit the same type of error as the highly popular Wisconsin High/Low Leaf variety quarters, but due to the higher minting standards and supposed hands on inspection of proof coins, very few examples escaped the mint.
Also, I'm not familiar with the types of tools or items the mint uses to polish or repair the dies, but would it be possible for one of these to create a gouge or a dent on a working die, as symmetrical and perfect like the one seen on these two nickels?

Because it probably was a one time anomaly that created a single defective proof die. Then consider that proof die life was probably less than 10,000 coins (today it is closer to 3,500.) Then also consider that the proof coins ARE inspected. The bad die was probably found fairly quickly and pulled along with all the specimens from that die they could find. That would mean that a very few coins actually got out. Say 100 got out, they made 3,220,733 sets. That's 1 coin in every 32,200 sets or .003% of the mintage. Anyway who was looking at the reverses, they were all looking for the missing S nickel. If the S was there they ignored the coin any further. (As a rule most collectors only bother looking for what has already been discovered and reported.)

So to whom could I send this discovery coin for attribution? More importantly, would anybody attribute this coin with only two known examples? Of course my opinion is going to be heavily biased, simply because I possess one of the two known coins, but I'm thinking that there has to be some numismatic importance to this coin for all of the reasons you mentioned in great detail in your last post....It is a major error on a proof coin, that has tremendous eye appeal as well as the undeniable "wow factor"! (for lack of a better word).

I guess what I'm asking is,

Would this coin, if sent to the right person for attribution, generate enough buzz in the numismatic world to aid in locating any other examples of this coin that might have escaped the mint?
And do you think, if the coin was attributed and more examples were found and also attributed, would it become more desirable to collectors?

Send to Mike Ellis at CONECAonline.org

UPDATE!

I finally got my proof nickel attributed, however, the results beg more questions than answers!

The good news...

It's a DDO / DDR, officially attributed as WDDR-004, paired with WDDO-004.

The not so great news is...

The extraordinary naked eye visible anomaly found inside the second U in UNUM on the reverse of this GEM Proof coin, is STILL unexplained and simply reduced to a "very unusual" die marker for this particular variety.

It has to be the most profound die marker known for a variety in any denomination.
(In my opinion, more so than the very widely spread RPM die marker on the 1960-D Small over Large date variety LMC - WDDO-001.)

Is there any way to solve the mystery behind the origin of of this unique "die marker" that immediately grabs your eyes the moment you begin to examine the reverse of this GEM Proof Nickel?

Below are the attribution listings and descriptions for the 1971-S WDDR-004 and WDDO-004.














What do you guys think? I would like to get as much input on this enigmatic proof nickel as I possibly can. So any and all input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Yeah I'm still around, just been busy trying to practice medicine in a totally corrupt healthcare system during a "plandemic" is all..

Anyways, I now know of 12 examples of this proof variety coin but it appears that the experts in the field of error and variety coinage aren't impressed with this naked eye visible anomaly on an already dual variety proof coin. But I figure one day when the right person finds one, it'll finally get the attention it deserves.