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I just found this thing in a bag of Jefferson nickels. Nothing else of note being found in there but this makes up for all the rest of the nothing and then some. Coin is struck on a split planchet and weighs in at 2.44g, so just about right in half. While looking at it I noticed what appear to be two small Cuds, one each above the E and R of LIBERTY. This is a known location for Cuds on this year, but looking things up on cuds-on-coins.com I find these are not listed. So could be a Cud discovery coin as well. 1960-D Jefferson nickel mint error - struck on split planchet plus Cuds   |
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Surprising amount of struck detail for such a lightweight planchet - Very nice!
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Very nice indeed. Perhaps those could be classified as die chips rather than Cuds, which could explain their absence on cuds-on-coins. |
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Check out this old post: May shed more light on the subject. "Nummi rari mira sunt, si sumptus ferre potes." - Christophorus filius Scotiae
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Yes, there was a popular name "bar nickel" which I still see written on 2x2 slips in collections once in a while. But cuds-on-coins does list some of these as Cuds, which is what I was noting, and it will be up to JC whether or not such things are considered die chips or Cuds or whatever these days. http://cuds-on-coins.com/jeffersonh-nickel/Of special note a CCF member got a 1961-D with a similar Cud listed a while ago. |
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Nope, sorry, not seeing FS..... just kidding. Cool find for sure!  |
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Very nice, I like it. John1  |
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Excellent coin TB, one of my favorite types of errors! Looks like Denver was producing some nice ones that year.  |
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Great split planchet! 1960 is THE year for bar letters on nickels. Yours is a bar E and bar R. Bar 0 over the date is also common. For whatever reason, these are usually not grouped with Cuds, possibly because so many were made. Seems like the mint didn't consider bar letters to be worth replacing the die. |
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Very cool! Excellent find from a bag. Split planchets are always neat to look at! -CH27 Collector of U.S. Coins, Varieties, and Colonial Coinage
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Nice split planchet.
Is that part of the "split" on the ST (STATES) or a retained struck through metal? Kind of an interesting design/anomaly.
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I love split planchets, all of them! Super nice TB! |
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Thanks all!
The ST of STATES is a retained bit of folded over lamination.
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Posted 02/07/2021 11:26 pm
