Need To Know Mint Process Or After Mint On 1980 Jefferson Nickel

Thank you Yokozuna for the welcome and reply. Also, thanks for helping me with the terminology. I'm wondering now where I picked up the term die cast LOL.. but now I can be conscious of not using that term..

Thanks again,
Sara

This is what we call a Parking Lot coin.

Sara,

to the community! While your first coin might be post mint damage, you have come to the right place to learn about coins, collecting coins and starting your own business. I found several topics for people who are thinking about starting their own business by using the search box on this page. Here's one of the ones I found.

http://goccf.com/t/101776

There is a lot to learn. Hope this helps.

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Your title for this thread answers your own question
"Need To Know Mint Process"

Check this out
http://goccf.com/t/380764

Then see
http://goccf.com/t/385379

No disrespect intended, but if you were unable to figure what happened to that coin, you're not ready to start a coin business. Starting a business without a good knowledge of its field is a recipe for lost time and money, and unhappy customers. If you're serious about such an endeavor, first spend a few years studying and learning.

Sara, first,

If you are going to make a business out of collecting coins, you need to take the process slow and ask as many questions as you have. As TNG pointed out, knowing the minting process is a critical part of the business. If I was just starting in numismatics, I would specialize in one denomination of one country's coin. The easy one is the U.S. cent. It's easy to "get your feet wet" by going to your bank as buying a box or two of cents (notice I didn't say "pennies") and start the long process of looking through the rolls. Keep what you find interesting (they only cost you a cent each) then return the rest for even more boxes/rolls.

Realise not every coin is an error coin, and that true errors are very rare. Photograph what you have questions about ask us then post your queries here and we'll be happy to help. Buy yourself the Red Book of US coins as that will help too. Spend time searching on error types in the top left corner of every page here on CCF. There is a lot to learn and you have come to the right place!

Sara, welcome to the family.
-Leslie