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My fiance always brings me home coins since he's a cashier and knows I love old ones. Mainly it's wheat pennies, older nickels and the occasional silver quarter. Today, he brought me home a 1941 nickel which I would've collected regardless, but I noticed what I at first thought was regular wear and tear damage. I looked closer and now think it's a strike error (I know my terminology is off, sorry, only just an amateur collector here). The pictures are horrible, I know, but that's the best I could do for now. If you look at the top right of the obverse, it looks like "in God" was struck on accident. On the reverse, directly behind that, it's really smooth, though I don't think just worn smooth. There's also another 'dent' to the upper right of Monticello that looks like the corner of something. While Monticello is pretty worn it looks like it was struck weird, almost as though the building is crooked. Am I crazy and seeing things that aren't there or might I have something here?   Edited by Mo0BLaH
12/16/2016 07:29 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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 Note the coin is out of round? The coin was damaged with another one that was laid on your coin. Then it was probably placed between two boards and hit with a large hammer. So the coin is called PSD (Post-Strike-Damaged) It is just worth a nickel. Someone ruined your treasure before you got it. sorry But you learned a lesson about coins today. 1. If the coin out of round, it was damaged. 2. Note the rim around the front (obverse) and back (Reverse) of the coin. Note the area in question. It is flattened near the LIBERTY area. A second clue that the coin was altered. A flattened area on the rim. 3. The letters of 'IN GOD' are mirrored. That is because they were transferred from another coin. If the die had created this, the letters would not be mirrored. Hope this helps. |
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Rest in Peace
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Keep searching. Folks report neat finds here every day. |
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Pillar of the Community
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to CCF!! As stated before, it is just damage |
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Bedrock of the Community
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to the CCF! |
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Thanks for the helpful replies; much appreciated. I got excited for a minute there, but now will juss have to keep looking :/
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I also found a Nickle that looks a little strange. I was surfing the internet trying to find some info on this 1941 nickle . Can anyone tell me more about this coin  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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To CCF! That looks like a damaged coin to me. Errers and Varietys.
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Bedrock of the Community
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This looks like a "false soft die" fabrication. If you take a coin and place it on something like a brass plate and then hit it HARD. It creates and incuse impression in the plate like a die and also work hardens the metal. If you then place another coin offset on that "soft die" and hit it again the soft die is hard enough to raise a weak image on the coin, but it is NOT hard enough to flatten out the existing image. The result looks like the coin you have. It has raised a weak LIBERTY and date in the field of the original coin, but the field of the soft die was not able to flatten Jefferson's pigtail.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Probably the reverse looks normal, but flattened a bit.
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to the Community, CCity310! |
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