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Is This A Brockage Error Nickel?

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Hello, I found this nickel today while roll hunting. I've never seen a brockage error nickel before, but this kind of looks like one, so I wanted to get the forum's expert opinion on this. To my untrained eye, it doesn't appear to be post mint damage - I could be wrong - but I'm really unfamiliar with all the different errors out there. The obverse looks like brockage (with unknown date), but the reverse looks like the regular Monticello.

I've posted the images below. Any insight would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

EDIT: Maybe it's a struck through cloth error?

EDIT 2: I forgot to mention that there is a crack all along the edge of the nickel, like the obverse is being crushed over and into the reverse. It looks to me like the obverse was struck with such force that the it cracked the nickel on the side. The matted pattern on the obverse does resemble that of a cloth of some sort; the pattern also looks like a maze of sorts and is pretty uniform throughout. Hope this helps.

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Brockage errors are when a minted coin remains stuck in the coinage chamber and a new planchet is fed on top of it - which results in a mirror image of the initial coins design imposed on the new coin in an incuse manner.

So the new error coin has the same design on both sides - one normal and one incuse.

This obviously is not what is happening with your coin.

It could be struck through something - or it could be the host coin that remained in the chamber for a subsequent brockage strike to occur.

I don't have the expertise to tell the difference - so wait a bit and the true experts will be along.
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Thank you, nickelsearcher.

I guess my other question would be, how much would something like this be worth? Is it flip worthy?

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@all, I strongly suspect that one side of this nickel has been exposed to a corrosive environment. Is it underweight?
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Hi Spence, it weighs 4.85 grams. Would that be considered underweight for a coin of this (unknown) age?
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For nickels dated after 1946, the mint's Weight Tolerance is 5.000 g ± 0.194 g. Yours is on the low side, but not yet underweight.
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Looks like the one side was sitting on a pool of acid, affecting just one side of the coin. If this were a true mint error of a reduced weight planchet, then both sides would be the same weakness and the rims would also look the same. This one looks like it was alter post strike. It could have been a car cup holder victim. (Just affecting one side with the acid from a spill of soda affecting the coin for a time in a car?
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Affecting both sides equally. On side normal strike the other side weakened looks like an alteration of the coin.
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How could the weight be slightly over or under? The thickness of the stock material being thicker or thinner could be the cause of the difference of weight.
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