2013-P Jefferson Nickel New Trail Die?

Wow this is nice especially for $.05 - I however know nothing about trail dies. But are there Trails also coming down from the FS through the stairs? Very cool looking - great find!!

Here you go CC. It's not my best, but should serve the purpose. This one does have trails running through the steps. When that happens they call it Wavy Steps.



Trail Dies are thought to occur when the die is receiving it's design. The die inadvertently scrapes horizontally against the hub leaving incuse trails in the die. The trails start at the devices that made the contact. They get weaker the farther they go from the devices (as the die and hub separate). Usually they are all in one direction, referred to as offset. Some coins have two or three offsets of trails. The following coin has at least eight different off-set trails, I don't know if the theory is consistent with it or not. I posted it once, but didn't get a definitive answer.

Hey buddy, there are two Major Trail Dies that are very similar, both have Wavy Steps but the offset direction on one is 180 degrees and 190 on the other. I have Anti Trails, give me 1/2 hr and I'll locate exactly where.

These are just so awesome. I didn't realize that Trail dies were incuse either. I look forward to seeing the other one as well.

They are raised on the coin CC. When you look at pics everything is lights and darks. Lights and darks are reversed depending on incused and raised. That's right, they're opposite each other.

Anti Trails are incuse on the coin, raised on the die. They can be found in different offset directions. Regular Trails are raised on the coin, incused on the die.

Very well and equal shapes receiving equal lighting show opposite lights and darks when one is incuse and the other is raised.

This is the Anti Trails error. The die had raised trails because the aforementioned scrape occurred earlier in the die making process. The hub had recessed trails. It's called an Anti Trail Die because it's the opposite of a Trail Die. The Coin has incuse trails. The pictures don't do it justice.











The post office won't open till Tuesday, I'll send this one and three more then. Thanks Dustin, you must be building quite a collection.