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1946 Nickels. Can You Spot The Differences? If There Is Any?

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 Posted 10/23/2020  11:10 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add 47P7 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
please look carefully as it might surprise you.
usually differences are easier to spot when you by chance have another coin to compare it with.
I know there will most likely be arguments about the Why's and the maybe's.and, and , and... but I assure you there is NO camera or light trickery involved.
Have fun, and check your own coins.
Just saying : what's good for one coin, maybe also good for the another?
Good luck
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 Posted 10/23/2020  11:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Numis-Northerner to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
That last one has much different looking water lines behind the beaver
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 Posted 10/23/2020  11:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sammeli to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Could be picture but last one looks like it's chromed
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 Posted 10/23/2020  11:59 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sammeli to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The first three coins , looks like beaver caught it's dinner. ( funny looking jawline)
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 Posted 10/23/2020  11:59 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Talonbat to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
#2 is 6/6
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 Posted 10/24/2020  12:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DBM to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
the 6 is doubled
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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 Posted 10/24/2020  09:02 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add okiecoiner to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I agree with the 6/6, but #1 looks like the beaver has a knife in his head ... unless that's dirt or something.
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 Posted 10/24/2020  09:51 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Hounddog Bill to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The colour on #4 seems different then the rest but could be just the lighting.
However the detail in the log and water is much finer on the last one also.

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 Posted 10/24/2020  11:55 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add 47P7 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you so far.
But keep looking for a bit longer.
some of you are partially right, others are not.
I assure you it has nothing to do with color or lighting.
think along what varieties we have in other nickels, usually just with 2 differences.
Here we have 4 coins .. and with one exception (6/6), nothing in Charlton. or elsewhere (as far as I know)
Admitted, I might be a bit too critically when looking at the coins...,
but what I said in the OP, still stands.
Just compare... and you shall find
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I see the last one as being a different colour and the water lines are more and finer
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The last one has far less wear than the others and was struck with a fresh die.
Maybe the OP is thinking that #2 is near leaf, but it's just an optical delusion.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Yes DBM, that NL thing struck my mind. Also the 6 looks like it is different on them. But, as you say,it may and probably is an optical illusion.
How about the WL? perhaps I got fooled there also?
I will try later and take another image of pix # 4 with a different lens.
and yes, I did get fooled with the WL and I am sorry for all the confusion.
I thought honestly I had found something new and different with the WL being doubled.I am not sure how it happened. However, even with a lupe, if I look at the coin in a slight angle, the WL appear to be all doubled.... but are not. it must be some optical reflection.
my sincere apologies to all.

sorry guys...
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The ear looks doubled on two of them
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