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New Member
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Hello new Numismatic Community. I am new to your forum. Through my research I have only found one related error. Concentric circles with clad layer intact. I would appreciate any insight. Thank you  |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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 to the CCF, RenoWulf! Nickels are a solid alloy, not clad like dimes, quarters, and half dollars. Are you sure that it's not glue? Have you soaked it in acetone? Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Forum Dad
United States
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That's just damage or a foreign substance that cannot happen during minting.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Post-strike damage--likely of a mechanical nature (old school rotary vending/coin insert device). I've seen hundreds of similar examples on nickels over decades of searching.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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 to the CCF! |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Post-strike damage That was my first thought. But it doesn't seem that the L of Liberty has been pushed, so I went back to the glue hypothesis. Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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To CCF! It's PMD. Not an error. Errers and Varietys.
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Moderator
United States
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to CCF a damaged nickel. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I've seen hundreds of similar examples on nickels over decades of searching. Right. And also just one side sanded - wonder why it's usually only on nickels though? |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Glue, I think. You can see some of the features through the substance, which wouldn't happen for PMD. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Concentric circles with clad layer intact. Just remember nickels are not clad coins - they are a solid alloy metal comprised of 75% copper and 25% nickel. Edited by Marv65
10/31/2024 8:08 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think glue is correct, it was glued to something round.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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to the CCF and PMD. |
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New Member
 United States
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Thank you community for your insight. I've been told never to clean the coin number one.
Number two if you were to look closely you would see that there is molten metal around the circle. My apologies if the photo did not come out as defined as I would have liked.
If it had been done at the minute how can you tell? I have seen similar circular imprints on many different coins. I would think there is a method that determines free or post mint. Like the molten metal I see outside rings.
I don't mind being wrong LOL
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The method that helps determine whether something was done during or after minting is pretty simple. Learn the minting process. The minting process is a pretty straight forward manufacturing procedure, with all steps well known and documented. Once you learn this it is a simple matter of asking yourself, " at what point in the minting process could this have happened, and how?'. Knowing this, it's pretty easy to determine that there is no way for this to have happened during minting. I'd bet heavily on glue, acetone won't hurt the coin a bit if done properly. If you are correct and it is melted metal, then someone has soldered it. Regardless, it has been altered post mint.
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Pillar of the Community
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I agree whole heartedly with ICutler. ps. One reason I like using the term PSD (Post Strike Damage) is because it indicates damage caused after the dies strike the coin. The damage can be at the mint or outside the mint and PSD should eliminate questions about where the damage happened because where the damage happens is irrelevant. Words of encouragement are one of the major food groups.
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Posted 10/31/2024 08:05 am
