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What Is Wrong With This Jefferson

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 Posted 05/07/2009  12:37 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add toofarnorth to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello All:

What is up with this nickel?

It has an indention (yellow) between the E in Monticello and the stairs.

Any ideas?

My photo skills are not really up to par!

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 Posted 05/07/2009  12:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add toofarnorth to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Forgot to mention it's a proof.
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 Posted 05/07/2009  12:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biokemist6 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Judging by the color change surrounding that area, I would say that it is a corrosion spot.

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 Posted 05/07/2009  12:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add toofarnorth to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for the welcome.

It's kind of what I thought, too, but it's shiny golden yellow (in the spot). Figured a corroded spot would be dull and darker.

Haven't really looked closely at my collection in a while. I usually just buy and store!

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While I have no first hand experience with trying this, my first thought when looking at the picture was someone holding a soldering iron to it. Especially the fine tips used for small solder cup wiring. Again, I have never tried it so I don't know what the results would be. Is this in a TPG holder?

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Thanks tights24.

I took it from a proof set myself and put it in a Whitman holder, just in case it was corrosion, so I know that wasn't it. But it'd be interesting to know what a soldering iron would do to a coin.

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