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Picked for $6 on ebay, an uncirculated specimen of 1956 5¢ DDR-001 / WDDR-006. The fingernail die gouge is present atop the rightmost porch column. Die state looks pretty wrinkly, but I did not find the long scratch from the T of Monticello to the VE of FIVE. For whatever reason, the Wexler entry does not include the thick die gouge on the column.    |
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Excellent pick up for cheap!
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Thanks! =) I had a feeling that I had picked a similar coin before. Sure enough, here is a different 1956 Jefferson nickel DDR-001 from last year. I never finished identifying it. The thread is locked or else I would update it. Definitely DDR-001, it has that same fingernail gouge on the last porch column. Guess I will need to locate that coin in the variety library and update the label. https://goccf.com/t/461404 |
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pretty nice purchase Brand - nice DDR.  |
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Nice purchase, nice DDR. Errers and Varietys.
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Excellent! |
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I packed up this coin on my desk today, and I gave a moment of thought to how I grappled with the identification (including the prior specimen that I finally just attributed). Then I remembered that it wasn't just the missing marker on Wexler that had stumped me, it was also the way that I couldn't even find the correct markers on the PCGS plate coins.  That's when the neurons sparked a little, and I realized that the reason I couldn't reconcile my coin, Wexler/VV, and the PCGS catalog to each other was probably because not all the PCGS plate coins were FS-801. Sure enough, the lone MS65+FS nickel in TrueView (#32821986) that I was trying to use as my bedrock reference is actually a DDR-001 and not actually FS-801. So even though my coins were matched to the top (misattributed) FS-801 plate coin, I was never going to match my coins or the first plate coin to the FS-801 markers on Wexler/VV. Glad I finally worked that out the second time I tilted that particular windmill! https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin...images/38522 |
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Nice job! As I said in another thread about a week or so ago about the TPG's "I get the feeling quite often that we here are sharper than they there."  -makecents-
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I think we just care about it more, partly from a love of the numismatics, and partly because we don't want to pay 10x for a rare coin and get shortchanged. As I have looked through their variety listings, I have concluded that PCGS and NGC are only precise about big money coins ($2500+) or varieties classified as "major" in their catalogs. Varieties valued at $200-600 have many visible attribution errors just on the tiny image catalogs that PCGS publishes. It takes a lot of time to research and properly attribute varieties, particularly when a year/mintmark has many similar varieties. The carelessness isn't terribly surprising. The TPGs can't have in-house pros for every minor variety they attribute. Also, the fees are minor revenue. A single rare mint state Morgan verification probably generates as much money as a whole submission sheet of minor nickel, dime, and quarter varieties. I will say that when I've been able to clearly see the slabbed coins in ebay pictures (which is not all that often), ANACS seems pretty solid at getting the specific attribution correct. |
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ANACS seems pretty solid at getting the specific attribution correct. That is why you go to ANACS when you want a none FS coin slabbed. -makecents-
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Posted 08/09/2025 5:30 pm
