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Found A Red 1964 D Jefferson Nickel

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I found this Nickel yesterday while coin roll hunting through a box of Nickels. At 1st I thought it could be a nickel that was made on a penny planchet but found it to be regular nickel size, so I think it could be caused by improper annealing. There is a spot on the bottom on the Monticello that appears to have the nickel metal color, but everything else, even the edges are copper looking. Any idea of what this is or its worth? Thanks

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Might be plated (doubtful), painted (doesn't look right), or someone took a highlighter/marker to it. I think its a spender.
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You don't think it's a mint error? Here are a few more pics of it with flash on the camera.

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These pictures lead me thinking it was a metal detector find and that color is from it being buried in the ground.
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Sad, and I thought it might be worth something more than the 5 cents that I paid for it at the bank. I don't metal detect, but it certainly could have been found by someone and put back into circulation at some point. Thanks for your help.
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If you want to find "valuable" Jefforson Nickels, look for 1938&1939 D and S, and the Key to the series which is 1950-D. Also keep an eye out for the 35%Ag " War Nickel" that were minted 1942-45 and have the big mint mark above Monticello on the reverse.

Then there are the occasional mint error and varieties that are listed in various books and have probably been listed for you somewhere on this site (use the 'search coin community) box on the upper left of the forum pages.

Last but not least are the occasional buffalo or liberty (V) nickels.

Let us know what you find!
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Hey guys , nice finger prints . But oh yeah ,environmental
damage , it's a spender .
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Common color change (toning) found by metal detecting. Find them every year.
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Enviornmental damage, My mom makes me wash my hands after coins similar
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I'm with Mox. Me 'n my ETrac dig 'em up red all the time.
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Here's what user BENTFORK said on metaldetectingforum. I think for anyone that might be researching red nickels this might help understand the details;

"The more iron or nickel content of the coin the worse they tend to be. Modern clad coins are copper planchets with a copper-nickel layer over the planchet. Not Zinc coins though. Copper-nickel is basically the stuff that an entire nickel is made of. After just a year or so <a buried> clad dime or quarter will be turning black. After 6 years or so it will start turning red color (rust) and the copper planchet will start to become brittle like a copper penny that has been in the ground for ages. So your nickels are red because they are a composition mostly copper and nickel. The nickel is what is starting to oxidize."

Hope that helps
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The strike is normal, the planchet was normal when it was struck. The thickness is normal for a nickel. If it were on a cent planchet, the weight would be normal 3.11 like a copper cent. It's not. The size of the planchet allowed the full strike of that design. On a cent planchet, the coin would be over the edge:
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