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 Posted 02/13/2011  9:57 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add lawjww00 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I'm not an experienced coin collector and I've read a few postings and see that a lot of these are fake. But I have to ask if anyone might recognize what would make the marks on the nickel in the photos. In each picture the nickel in question is on the left. Around the entire edge it looks like a seam and on the front and back face of the nickel the edges are equally raised much more than a plain nickel and feels sharp. The front and back pictures are slightly miss-aligned too. I almost thought this was 2 nickels pressed together but the weight seems to be about the same as any other nickel. I used a crude balance scale to check the weight. There is a very slight indent along the seam and inspecting the seam with a magnifying lens it doesn't appear to be one coin pressed inside a shell. If that were the case I would assume that the raised sharp edge around the faces of the front and back would be different. I can try to take some pictures of other angles if it might help. It's hard to get the lighting right and keep it in focus with the macro lens. Thanks for any assistance, ideas or suggestions. Oh I've already tried to pull it apart too being careful to not damage

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 Posted 02/13/2011  10:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Merc Crazy to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like spooning... either someone tapped the edge with a spoon repeatedly until it was raised like that, or it got caught in an industrial dryer and the heat/friction did that.
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 Posted 02/13/2011  11:01 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lawjww00 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks. I was suspicious that there was a simple explanation since it weighed the same as any other nickel but thought I'd ask anyway. If nothing else it sparked an interest to go through a small coin collection that I inherited from my Mom several years ago. She was an avid collector for may years but after a robery and some grand kids that would sneak coins to spend at the local ice cream store there isn't much left but a few dozen coins and proof sets.
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 Posted 02/14/2011  04:06 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like a partial collar strike.
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 Posted 02/14/2011  07:36 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add John1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
That looks to be an excellent example of a railroad rim or as coop said a partial collar strike, nice.
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 Posted 02/14/2011  6:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biggfredd to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
All the nicks point to damage like you see on casino halves. If the diameter is wider on one face, it could be a railroad strike which in turn caused it to stick in machinery. Raised rims like that happen from coins in dryers.
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 Posted 02/14/2011  10:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mikediamond to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It looks like the coin was rolled and squeezed. The area just inside the rim looks slightly deformed on both faces.
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 Posted 02/15/2011  7:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lawjww00 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
As a new member I'd like to thank everyone for their time and comments and welcome those comments yet to come. So far my position is that it is highly unlikely that it came out of a mint like this but it's very interesting to think of all the possibilities that may have shaped this nickel in this fashion. To me this is what searching for and finding error coins is all about. Finding something unusual and researching it to some conclusion.
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