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Have you given this coin an acetone bath?
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Looks like Jefferson blew a bubble on the obverse too. Can you be sure the nickle was a mint uncirculated original roll or just something somebody put together and called it uncirculated? Try the acetone bath as Hondo suggested. It looks like some kind of substance glued 2 coins together and they were pulled apart. The area you asked about stuck to the coin's surface and the area I circled looks like it was pulled off the surface. That's all I got.  |
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Ha! That's not a bubble, it's a smoke ring. Excellent point: no, I cannot be sure exactly what kind of uncirculated roll it was. Just because it said uncirculated on the roll doesn't make it mint uncirculated, I get it. I will try an acetone bath but will have to go out and get some genuine acetone first. My wife's nail polish remover won't cut it (something else I learned reading these posts). Thanks for the feedback!
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a mint uncirculated original roll As far as I know, the Mint did not sell rolls of coins in 1959, so this roll is one cobbled together by someone else.
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will have to go out and get some genuine acetone Buy a quart can. When it is approaching empty, buy a gallon can and use it to refill your quart can as needed.
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Looks like some kind of substance is on the coin. A pure acetone soak might remove it. Also, you shouldn't be holding coins with bare hands. You should only hold it by the edge or wear gloves. You don't want fingerprints left behind. I suggest wearing gloves, so that the oils from your fingers and hands won't get on the surfaces of your coin.
Errers and Varietys.
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agreed, an acetone soak would be the first step in identifying what it could be on your coin.
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Could it be gritty compacted grease from the striking chamber? i.e. the same crud that gunks up the die lettering to produce a grease-filled die error?
I have had brand new BU 2022 and 2023 nickels with hard black crud on them. Not to this level, but the substance is nearly impervious to toothpicks, water, acetone. It was pretty obvious that the coins had either come that way from the Mint or from the Fed distributor that wrapped them. There were no scratches or circulation evidence of any kind.
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Interesting find.  |
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The coin is soaking ovenight. I will post new pictures tomorrow. In the meantime, is it possible that my schmutz is a strike through error?
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The stuff on Monticello looks raised. It also seems that someone tried to wipe stuff off the coin and gave up.
Let's wait on the acetone results before playing the "what if" game.
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Let's wait on the acetone results before playing the "what if" game. Awww man....Sometimes "What if" is more fun then the actual result 
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The coin is soaking ovenight. I will post new pictures tomorrow. I
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