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I have only been in the Hobby about 5 months and mostly look at the Lincoln Cents, so I am not familiar with these nickels. They are really amazing. Yes, they are quite addictive. They were the first denomination to use nickel and there was a learning curve that took some time to figure out. In the first couple of years, there are many error such as clashes, something called Longacre doubling (fascinating because it is not true doubling), plenty of cracked dies, etc. They are also not too terribly expense in decent grades for early years so you can probably pick up a nice example. While later years were low mintage, 1888 had a high mintage amount for some unknown reason. Sure, I kind if like them... |
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I enjoyed the collectable MAD coins NEO! Great images. I may add them to my files. Many times we will find struck through errors and wonder what cause them. Even thread can affect a coin if the thread is in the way of the strike. But I found the ugliest coin one time and when I looked at it closer, I found out what was altering the surface of coins. Here is my ugly cent:  Looks nasty doesn't it. But looking closer, I spoted what it was:  Note the fibers that were struck to the coin are what is making indents into the surface of even this coin. It was an ugly coin until I realized it was what I was looking for all these years. The reason for the struck through I've been seeing. Edited by coop
03/21/2016 12:39 pm
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Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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I enjoyed the collectable MAD coins NEO! Great images. I may add them to my files. Glad you enjoyed them. I would be honored to have some of my images in your archive. If it would help I could send you the unedited files. |
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Lam and lam peal before and after it popped off.  |
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Lam and lam peal before and after it popped off. I like that! Do not lose that piece!  |
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I know of one that was peeled off a coin and he got big bucks for it after it was graded.  Looks like this one had peel 1/3 off when he got it. Then helped the other 1/3 to come off and then slabbed them. |
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I had mine for years as a plain lam and decided to photograph it . After taking a bunch of pics I was putting it back in the flip when I heard a pop and at first actually thought I had ruined one of my favorite lams !
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Just one more . A Broadstruck 1988 that was struck with nicely clashed obv. and rev. dies. It was cleaned before I picked it for the clash.  |
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This is my coolest find so far. This guy was diagnosed as lamination (de-lamination) not sure if there is a difference.   |
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CoinCents, I like it when the lamination covers the coin like that , Cool find !
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Most of what I find are just the sections for laminations, so when I saw this I wasn't even sure what had happened to it. Best thing about it was I found it in change about a month ago. I have a thread here on the forum with some cool close-ups if you what to look at them. Thanks
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Slight lamination error on this IHC.  |
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