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cconrad Valued Member United States 128 Posts	Posted 01/12/2009 8:18 pm And Yet another find at work! This one shows almost a complete profile of Jefferson on the reverse. You can also notice a few lines from the building on the obverse. Does anyone know what this might be worth? Report this Post to the Staff

coop Bedrock of the Community United States 62064 Posts	Posted 01/12/2009 8:27 pm Looks like a fairly strong Die clash nickel. First one of them I've seen but there are probably more of them out there. Few Nickel collectors and a lot of Cent collectors, so the Cent gets looked at more often. If it were BU it would be worth a little, but more of a conversation piece unless you found someone who collected clashes. Not the marks in the fields of you coin. When a clash happens the outsides of the dies (Fields) make contact and leave a clash line on each other from the other die. Interesting find though. Edited by coop 01/12/2009 8:28 pm Report this Post to the Staff
TNG Bedrock of the Community United States 10284 Posts	Posted 01/12/2009 8:32 pm It is call a clashed die I believe. I think it is caused by having the dies come together with great force without a blank planchet in place. This permanently changes the die design. I suppose the mint people replace the dies when this is detected but the nickels slipped through to be released in mint bags. I would say you have a pretty good example of it. I do not know the value but I would guess it is not a huge amount. Maybe 5 or 10 bucks value is my guess. Report this Post to the Staff
TNG Bedrock of the Community United States 10284 Posts	Posted 01/12/2009 8:37 pm LOL! Posting pretty much the same thing as coop. That makes me feel good to be describing it similarly. Maybe the value is a little high that I guessed. It is a 1982 though. Maybe making a small set of these with different dates would make them more valuable. Report this Post to the Staff
cconrad Valued Member United States 128 Posts	Posted 01/12/2009 8:57 pm The pictures are helpful, but on my coin the image of him is facing to the right. You can tell on my second picture. That is actually the bow in his hair. I don't really know if that makes a difference though. Report this Post to the Staff
coop Bedrock of the Community United States 62064 Posts	Posted 01/12/2009 9:04 pm Check again. The ribbon is near the UNUM on the image and on the overlay. The reason the head faces a different direction is that is the position the dies would be in during a strike. The letters also would be reverse on the opposing dies leaving a mirrored device if it shows on the field. Report this Post to the Staff
biokemist6 Bedrock of the Community United States 12437 Posts	Posted 01/13/2009 10:58 am Wow, that is a monster clash, definitely a keeper Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 01/13/2009 1:49 pm Quote: The pictures are helpful, but on my coin the image of him is facing to the right. You can tell on my second picture. That is actually the bow in his hair. I don't really know if that makes a difference though. It doesn't because on your picture Monticello is also upside down. If you rotate the coin around so the building is upright Jefferson will be upside down and facing left just like in Coops pictures. The one thing that I do notice though is that the dies were misaligned when they clashed. Normally the final O in Monticello shows behind Jeffersons head but on yours the head overlaps that O. Report this Post to the Staff
steve199 Pillar of the Community United States 1882 Posts	Posted 01/13/2009 1:57 pm Nice find! Quote: The pictures are helpful, but on my coin the image of him is facing to the right. He's facing to the right because you've got the reverse of the coin upside down. :) Compare it to Coop's second picture. The first picture he posted it a view of the obverse. ( edit ) Apparently I'm too slow. :) Edited by steve199 01/13/2009 1:58 pm Report this Post to the Staff
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