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As the title says my son and I were counting his change and found this nickel. We posted it on reddit and everyone was split on whether it was an error from minting or it was damaged by someone. The obverse side is raised and the reverse is indented. if anyone could shead some light on it, it would be very helpful, thanks   *** Edited by Staff to crop/rotate/resize images. In the future, Please crop, resize, and correctly orient images before uploading. *** |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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First thing.....do not dig at it........
Can you get a weight? Need cropped photo's with better detail.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 , and huh  Interesting, so one idea that could be true is this could be a person-assisted error done at that particular Canadian minting facility where a quarter planchet blank ended up on a nickel press... But I somehow lean more to post mint damage or what we call PMD. We would have to see how large this "coin" is in relation to another coin to ger a matter of scale, and if you have a weighing scale to get it's weight.  Looking at this some more, now I am leaning more towards my first reasoning of a quarter blank got struck with nickel dies since the reverse has a very smooth transition from the beaver region to the rim...
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10/28/2023 9:25 pm
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New Member
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Unfortunately I don't have access to a scale. In regards to better images can I post links to reddit or an image hosting website?
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Moderator
 United States
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to the Community!
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United States
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can I post links to reddit or an image hosting website? I think that is frowned upon since the image can perhaps be lost or altered on the external site. Photobucket is one example of a site that went down and took images with it. Images posted here are permanent.
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United States
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That is one cool looking coin! May go to a reputable coin dealer nearby and see what his/her thoughts are? Info is power!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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As mentioned a good weight will tell the story
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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To CCF! I am thinking it's been damaged after it left the Mint. If you can get the weight, that would help.
Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Which side is raised and which is incuse? I see both sides as raised. Specify portrait or date side so I'm not confused (Canadians sometimes say obverse for the date side). Image next to a normal nickel, dime and/or quarter would help for size reference. An edge view would help - it looks like it's much thicker on one side than the other. I'm thinking it was hit with something at an angle that left a clean raised semi-circle on the portrait side but not sure about the date side.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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You could do a makeshift scale (balance) to see if it is heavier than a normal Canadian nickel.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Weight is critical here. It will go a long way toward solving the issue. Try a coin shop or jeweler.
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Pillar of the Community
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Try your local postal outlet.
I did before I had a scale.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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The obverse doesn't look like a legit error, so by default the reverse can't be one either, imo.
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Specify portrait or date side so I'm not confused (Canadians sometimes say obverse for the date side) As far as I am aware, the portrait side (king or queen on Canadian coinage) is always called the obverse while the other side is the reverse. The date can be on either side. This appears to me as PMD as I can't picture how it could occur during the production process.
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Posted 10/28/2023 9:20 pm
