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Valued Member
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*** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. ***I found this nickel roll searching last week. Can anyone tell me what happen to it? How did it happen?    Thank you for any input.
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New Member
United States
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My guess? I'd say it was not well struck. I've run into numerous coins that had a similar effect but not as extreme as your example, and that was what I attributed it to.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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It has nothing to do with strength of strike, the reverse is perfectly normal. The appearance of the obverse is quite odd and there is no rim so I am not sure what to make of it  To rule out post-mint alteration, get an accurate weight on the coin. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It looks a little like it might have capped the reverse die and then been struck at least once by a blank planchet.
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I can't weight it , I have no scale. In hand it looks like a weak strike on the obverse but a normal strike on the reverse. Can that be possible?It looks real cool in hand. I just don't know how it could happen. Unless it is a filled die? I have searched $7030 in nickels last year and I have never seen one like it.
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Pillar of the Community
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United States
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I'm with biokemiswt6 on this one. It looks like the obverse's rim is missing . I have no idea how it became that way. Perhaps some others in our forum can shed some light on this mystery nickel.
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Valued Member
United States
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I went to the coin shop yesterday and ask them what they through. He said it looks like a struck through, but through what he don't know. He weight the Nickel and it was right on. 5 grams. I'm still puzzled.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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This is interesting...I'm baffled too.  |
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Moderator
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You could get some 'experts' to take a look if you ask the Mod Dudes to move this thread to the "Errors" forum ....
David
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Done.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Yup, this one's officially weird. It's not post mint damage.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I suspect a deteriorating die cap. But a keeper. It would be interesting what Mike Diamond says on this coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Looks like it was not struck with enough pressure. (just speculating because I have no minting process knowledge) Hmmm, if thats the case I dont know why I am even posting...Well I am interested and wanted to chime in anyway!
The area at the back of the neck seems like it was not stuck with any presure because there is no detail there at all.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Looks like it was not struck with enough pressure. If both sides had the same appearance that would be a possibility but the reverse is hammered. I also suspect it was struck through a die cap that had almost completely deteriorated but I have not found anything else with a similar appearance. At this point, it is just an educated guess and the best I can come up with  |
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Sooo ... now in the proper forum ... let's examine what we can see from the photos and draw some conclusions from that ... I see the following ... The reverse is a normal MS Jefferson ... assuming the blue obstruction in the photo at 6pm to 7pm is just poor photography whereby the OP let the background slip over the coin. Sooo ... conclusion from the reverse photo is that this is not a weakly struck die-adjustment coin. Another look at the obverse offers some clues ... Notice in both photos the obvious 'shadow' of Jefferson portrait ... best seen at the nose and forehead ... but by-and-large complete 'shadow" all around the obverse portrait. Also ... note the fully struck hair region on the portrait behind Jefferson ear ... which tells us this portion of the hammer die was clear at the time of the strike. Based on my limited knowledge as a newbie collector I say that this coin was struck through a deteriorating obverse die-cap .. and in such a manner that the central obverse features were clear but the rim legends were affected. That's my opinion .... now waiting on the experts. David Edited for splleging Edited by nickelsearcher
01/28/2011 9:25 pm
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