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Still going thru Grandpa's nickels. I have 41 1968S nickels and I noticed the mint mark was deformed for most of them. Looks like a Cud inside the lower loop of the S. There's quite a few like this. Some others have filling inside the loop like maybe the die (or whatever you call it) had gunk in it, but there are a bunch with this fairly uniform "bump." Is this a normal thing? Just trying to learn. Thanks!    *** Edited by Staff to Add Year / Mintmark / Denomination to Title. Titles are Important! *** |
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Can't quite tell what's going on, given the photos posted. A sharp, close in photo of the mint mark would help. Typically, a Cud is associated with the coin's rim. From error-ref.com: Quote:Cuds Definition: A Cud is a die break that involves the rim and at least a little bit of the adjacent field or design. The vast majority of sizable die breaks are Cuds. Cuds can assume a wide variety of shapes including ovoid, crescentic, and irregular. Most Cuds represent spontaneous brittle failure. A small minority arise as the result of impacts. |
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That's about as close and clear as I can get it without a lot of funky light and shadow stuff happening. It's the equipment, unfortunately. But I think it's pretty clear there's a very similar "bulge" in the lower part of the S in the same spot in all three coins.
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Bedrock of the Community
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A mint mark cannot have a Cud. Try to get a close-up anyway. |
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That IS a close-up! LOL.
Seriously, I will get the coins out later and try for a tighter picture but these are actually clearer by far than my previous efforts at more magnification. To me the bumps are obvious. Not sure why you guys aren't seeing them.
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That IS a close-up! LOL. Now *this* is a close-up! Seriously, though maybe a little DDD on the mintmark, but I'm not seeing any die chips on that letter S.  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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OK, here we go. These are different coins, unless just by dumb luck I pulled the same 3 out of a cup that has over 40 1968S nickels. Here are two that have the bump I'm talking about, and one that does not.    |
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I think I would say all Die chips  |
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Pillar of the Community
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 maybe a progressive die chip..... |
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I figured. There were quite a few of them in this batch. But the fact that they were in the same spot made me curious.
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Most likely came out of the same roll, same die, at the near same time.
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I thought the same. There were others with just ordinary "filling" in the curves, like there was gunk in the die, but these all had the same little spike/bump, so there had to be something unusual about that particular die. Grandpa did like to go to this big bank in Denver and buy coin rolls, which I think probably came straight out of the mint—this MIGHT be one of them; many of the coins have nice mint luster. But a lot of them also have quite a lot of rub and dings, so I don't know.
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