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United States
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I discovered this 1978-D nickel in a sealed mint set, and let's just say that if Ugly were an error or variety, this coin would have to be one of the finest examples ever known!  This coin has got so much going on, that the list of things NOT wrong with it would be significantly shorter than the list of the things that are!  I have no idea  how this "MS" coin ended up like this before leaving the mint, and if I hadn't personally found it in a sealed mint set, I would have easily dismissed it as having severe PMD or a " Dryer Coin".  I'm not even going to attempt to describe the issues that affict both the obverse, and reverse of this coin. Like I said, it has many. But the main PUP on the obverse for me was the "fat" date & "mushy" lettering, along with the completely filled mint mark. So please look at the images below and by all means, educate me as to what kind of striking error this could possibly be! The images are not the greatest, but I'm hoping that they're at least good enough for a few of the CCF members that have more extensive knowledge on error coins to chime in. Any and all comments and opinions will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance everybody!                Isn't it a beauty?!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6370 Posts |
Compare the diameter to another nickel. I don't think it's a Dryer Coin. Just a VLDS. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1601 Posts |
Hey! If that's mint condition, I've got pounds of them. Should I send them all to PCGS or just one at a time. ;D
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
616 Posts |
Quote:Compare the diameter to another nickel. I don't think it's a Dryer Coin. Just a VLDS. There's no possible way for this to be a " Dryer Coin" because I cut it out of a sealed US Mint issued 1978 Mint Set! What I'm trying to determine is, what kind of striking error would cause this uncirculated nickel to look like this? Because it has NEVER been in circulation due to the fact that it left the mint sealed in the red striped cello flat pack as part of an official mint set until 3 days ago when I removed it. Quote:
Hey! If that's mint condition, I've got pounds of them. Should I send them all to PCGS or just one at a time. ;D See reply above. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Worn dies, lousy strike, that's all.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3077 Posts |
How many nickels did that die make to get that worn?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2824 Posts |
 This brings back bad memories of when I bought 800 Jefferson nickel mint cellos from someone and about 120 where VLDS and 40 in about same shape as the one your showing. I ended up with 800 discard coins as no way to see variety on them even if present but all technically BU coins..  I learned a important lesson never buy bulk from seller without checking to that also sells single graded coins and never buy bulk wheats from someone selling single rpms and DDO. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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What is the weight of this coin? Normal or light? The devices are wider than any know doubled die I've seen. I asked Mike for help on this one.
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Canada
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Should have left it in the mint set packaging.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2737 Posts |
As others have said, this nickel was struck with worn dies. Quality control evidently took a back seat when this mint set was put together.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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United States
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I would've thought worn down while in the celo
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1699 Posts |
Interesting example. Goes to show the importance of the die state when collecting non-error coins by grade.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1781 Posts |
This is a stone cold normal BU coin in Very Late Die State. Coins struck from dies this worn never look very nice and I would think should have never been put into Mint Set but we know that during many years the Mint just didn;t care. In more recent years the coins are generally early die states. In 1998 when I was at the Mint I was told cents were being struck with a bit more tonnage with 100,000 to 200,000 pieces from a die pair before being retired to normal coin production. They said business strikes were being minted at a rate of 1.5 for 2 million coins average per die. Nickels and other denominations followed a similar pattern.
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Posted 11/24/2015 08:34 am
