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she's pretty smooth!   |
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Bedrock of the Community
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It's well beyond "normal wear" but not abnormal either. Liberty nickels weren't known for their ability to hold up to heavy wear , especially at a time period when a nickel was "good money" to many people because of it's ability to buy a lot more than it does today. Some coins get pucked from circulation by collectors because they age nicely and they're old. This is not the case with your coin. This nickel surrendered any collector value it had a long time ago, and obviously remained in circulation long, long past it's prime. Sadly, not having any bullion value, a Liberty nickel in this very, very worn condition is worth only, a nickel (face value). But even then, there are youngsters out there who probably won't know what it is and wouldn't take it as U.S. currency. |
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I'd rub out the scratch using it as a pocket piece, making sure the date remains clear, and I think you could get it down to P-01.
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You know, a take back my last statement... looking up values for a 1900 Liberty nickel, it *might* have a value of about a $1 US. At least the date is readable. Highest and best value: give it to a child to perhaps encourage an interest in coin collecting. |
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My gut says that the coin shows more than normal circulation wear. Unfortunately, those scratches on the obverse really kill it. Overall, it has very little value in my opinion.
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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I think it's just circulation wear. It might have "circulated" through a lot of slot machines.
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Nice. The result of rubbing two nickels together. In 1900 it bought a loaf of bread.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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10/05/2019 09:00 am
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If it weren't for the "X" on the obverse I bet there would have been a HUGE scramble for it by the low end collectors.
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Might still be desirable to them.  to the CCF! |
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PO-01 Details , lowball heaven ,just smooth out the obverse scratches and as mentioned stay away from that date .  |
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 When I was a youngster in the early 1960s, Liberty nickels still showed up in change at our family's hardware store. Many of them looks pretty much like this one. My sister and I became skilled at translating the "Morse Code" of what was left of the tops of the dates, and many of those coins were the high mintage 1900-1912 coins. One thought to ponder. In the early 1960s, those coins were barely 50 years old. Quarters today circulate as heavily as nickels in the early 1900s, and the early clad quarters are as old now as those Liberty nickels were in the 1960s, yet are in much better shape. Strike quality and planchet porosity (alloy quality) are at least two of the factors distinguishing the two. |
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Strike quality and planchet porosity (alloy quality) are at least two of the factors distinguishing the two. And relative rate of circulation. It takes a lot of normal circulation for a CuNi coin to end up like that. Also, good luck getting those scratches out. 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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Can you imagine all the places that coin has been. |
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In the midst of doing this, it makes it easier to use a large smooth rimless coin to wear against. I'm using a French 2 sol made of unknown alloy bronze.
The bur on the nickel's reverse is interesting, since my coin has several. For a few hours they caught on the rubbing coin's surface, but are now burnished and slide easily. They're not going away.
It would take years of this to remove something as deep as the x on the nickel's obverse.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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10/07/2019 11:33 am
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