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Valued Member
Canada
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So I went through my coins again today and set my eyes on three circulated nickels: two '63s and a '64. I believe they are all circulated proofs, or PL coins, due to their mirror-like finish. The first three pictured are the PLs and the last is a regular strike '64   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm seeing what you're talking about and they could be impaired proofs but not necessarily. I'd hypothesize that they are coins from fresh dies. I don't know how you'd test that but have you considered the sheer odds of these three coins getting into your collection if they were proofs? Did you buy them thinking that they were proofs or did you pluck them out of circulation? Something to think about.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Shiny coins like this could have been struck with nickel plated dies.
The Royal Australian Mint uses such dies occasionally for circulation coins.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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Terrible pics, we can't determine anything from those.
Most likely just bright and shiny circulation coins.
There were no proof nickels issued 'til 1981.
So many millions of PL coins were issued in 1963 and 1964 that if your coins are indeed circulated PL's they are worth exactly 5cents maybe 6 if you melt them.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Hi Mike, Can't really tell with those photos, sorry.
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Valued Member
 Canada
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Kinda figured the "Bad photo" complaint, I'ma try running a scan.
Looking at them again and they just so... mirror-like, at least where circulation hasn't hit them. I believe I found these among 15 other rolls of old nickels from a bank.
Edited by mike9999999
01/08/2017 2:41 pm
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Valued Member
Canada
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They all look the same in the scan. Welp, I'll just presume they all came form mint-sets.
And, yes, they are worthless when they're PL.
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Moderator
 Canada
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Welp, I'll just presume they all came form mint-sets. Unlikely... I can pull coins from mint bags from just about any year in the 1960s, and you get a handful of coins with both mirror fields and matte fields. It depends on the condition and stage of life of the die being used. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Valued Member
Canada
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I shouldn't have said "mint-sets", rather they be worthless PLs.
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Canada
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Call them what you want, but a simple look at the rims tells me these are business strikes and not impaired (circulated) PL strikes.
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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