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1943 Nickel No Mint Mark PMD?

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Bedrock of the Community
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 Posted 07/20/2011  2:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TNG to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I think that the 48 is a neat coin. That reddish color is a sort of oxidation and it appears the damage or alteration was done a long time ago in the nickels life.
Personally I would value it as a worthy novelty being it is not a recent tampering. Not from what I can see.
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 Posted 07/20/2011  5:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Indian1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I copied that pic. and blew it up and checked every angle
by rotation and I believe that it is a 3 and not an 8
If you look at the 8 and 3 horizontally you will notice that
the upper loop on the 8 (left side of it) is parallel with the right edge of the 4 on a normal 1948. This digit hooks
down and to the left like the 3 normally would. Just what I noticed anyway.
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 Posted 07/21/2011  1:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TNG to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I compare to a 1948 ... Looks pretty much the same as a 1948 to me.
The light angle on the 1948 even makes it look like a 1943. Maybe this is not even altered and in hand it will be a photographic illusion. Maybe the rest of the 8 is still there but darkened.


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 Posted 07/21/2011  5:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jasper62 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Lights + camera = Illusion Well darn it! I was hoping I had something good.I guess I should have waited till I received it then I would have seen the 8 plain as day.Well almost.I had to put a loupe on it to verify what it was.In hand It still looked like a 3 but with the loupe it told me the truth. Sorry about the false alarm


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 Posted 07/21/2011  5:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add specksynder to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
wow, now we know "the rest of the story."
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 Posted 07/21/2011  6:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Earle42 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
No need to apologize for a false alarm - this is how we all learn
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 Posted 07/21/2011  9:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jasper62 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for all the comments and analyses.I wish indian1 was correct " that would have been Sweet" but wheezydog nailed it.Happy face awarded
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 Posted 07/21/2011  9:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Indian1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
An optical conclusion :)
What a difference a day makes.
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 Posted 07/21/2011  10:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TNG to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Ahhh I wish it were a no mintmark 1943 but alas ... It was exciting though.
Thanks for the fun topic.
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