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Bedrock of the Community
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The reason why I questioned the color is because there is a bluish light coming from the top of the pics (LED?).
If anything, that light would make it look more like a BB and not yellow IMO (aka incandescent).
In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Pillar of the Community
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Here is my 1959 "maybe" black beauty!   |
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Pillar of the Community
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I can't tell you how many "dark" nickels have passed through our registers at my part time job, I always look to see if they are War Nickels, but not these. |
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Newbie234 > yes I believe you have a genuine Black Beauty .  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Here's mine. I found it in one of my childhood (which was a long time ago...) Whitman books after learning about them here at CCF.   |
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Nice recent examples. |
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@ Sudz , the Philly is A black beauty, the Denver is not .  |
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Pillar of the Community
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T-Bop, Why is P one but not D?
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@ Sudz , the Philly is A black beauty, the Denver is not . I think the Denver is just there for comparison purposes. |
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Newbie and Sudz, yep even with wear they still have that "shine" color.
My wonder is from all I can tell, only Philadelphia in 1958 & 1959 had the GENUINE Black Beauty. Other imitators have shown up, but the preponderance seems to be only those years. Just how may were minted, 10%or 2%? Be interesting if that could be discovered.
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07/26/2017 6:03 pm
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T-Bop, Why is P one but not D? The P mint on the 59's are noted for BB's ,notice the color is a very dark grey kind of dullish on circulated coins . the D mint is not noted for BB's ,notice the lighter grey color or normal Jeff Nickel . I have seen many Black Beauties That are truly black . Product of an annealing mix up or improper alloy . |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nice "Black Beauty" Nickels everybody! :)
Errers and Varietys.
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I think the Denver is just there for comparison purposes. That was my intention, thanks for your assistance jbuck. |
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That was my intention, thanks for your assistance jbuck. No problem  |
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I think this is one but does it affect the value any if it's a BB?       
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