2023 Nickel: Unusual M And Other Letters.

since this one is questionable, I'd set it aside to see if other examples turn up, IMO only reason to submit it for attribution at this time is if you want the chance at a discovery coin to your name

The glare is still a problem for me. Maybe high bounce MD?
John1

Silvio, I missed your comment earlier:


Essentially what you are saying is that the post-2000 changes to the minting process (including hub and die making) must be treated as separate from the older manufacturing. Some old doubling classifications are no longer likely—or perhaps no longer even physically possible—and new quirks have been born that cannot be accurately described by the old I-VIII. Nickels are a good example coin, because the transition to single squeeze changed a great deal about how and where errors can be introduced in the manufacturing process.

What you are saying reminds me of semiconductors after Y2K. As transistors kept shrinking, the problem classifications shifted considerably in manufacturing. When transistors were huge (relatively speaking), they dominated the faults. As transistor geometries shrank faster than everything else, chips became dominated by the wires. The wires became insanely thin and went much, much greater distances. Metal migration was a huge problem, standby leakage currents became a huge problem, speed testing millions (or billions) of internal pathways became a huge problem.

Superficially, making chips was the same process of using metal, chemical, and photo-lithography techniques to etch semiconductors. But the old problems went away, and were replaced by entirely new (and sometimes completely unforeseen) problems.

So perhaps a better question would be: what are the irregularities in the current tooling and minting strategies that produce doubling effects? What are the signatures of the results, and can we reliably diagnose those back to a cause?

According to the site, John Wexler has retired as of February 2023 and is no longer accepting submissions. Daniel Griffin and Tanner Scott are taking over the site, but they have not published any guidelines to resume sending them coins for evaluation.

I went back and looked along the top edge of the coin again. The ghosts on E Pluribus Unum are on the bottoms of the letters, also pointed towards the center. The S in particular shows a weird separation near the serif, but all the letters show the ghosting to some degree. The direction is towards the center, consistent with the bottom letters having ghosty tops.

That doesn't make a strong case for push doubling because the direction is not a single alignment. The perimeter letters are pulling towards the center. So possibly that's just Die Deterioration which ties in to the radial flow lines.





These three images are of the MONTICELLO anomalies at a steep angle. It was an attempt to estimate the height and roundness of the metal.





The last images are all at an approximate right angle. The odd serifs on FIVE, then the full Monticello. Note that the problem happens all the way out to the C, and possibly with the LL.








Apologies if that's too many pictures. Just wanted to get the data out there in case anyone has a sudden insight as to what's going on here.

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