It appears that you have a "Bar" nickel, more common in 1960, but not unheard of 1961. The "Bar", or die chip, is usually over the last digit in the date, but I have some that actually have 4 bars, with 3 over LIBERTY and one over the 0 in 1960. Great Find!
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