Found a Jefferson Nickel I’m needing some help identifying
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Found a Jefferson Nickel I’m needing some help identifying
Hello everyone, I was hoping to see if anyone could help me with this possible error.
I went to a coin collectors estate sale where I purchased a box of coins. Inside this box I found a nickel that I’m pretty positive is a mint error. I’ve seen many times graded nickels that look like this one where PCGS / NGC recognized it as a mint error.
Let me know what you think
I went to a coin collectors estate sale where I purchased a box of coins. Inside this box I found a nickel that I’m pretty positive is a mint error. I’ve seen many times graded nickels that look like this one where PCGS / NGC recognized it as a mint error.
Let me know what you think
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Re: Found a Jefferson Nickel I’m needing some help identifying
Just a very, very, worn Jefferson nickel. Not a mint error in any way, possible “dryer coin”.
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Re: Found a Jefferson Nickel I’m needing some help identifying
It looks so much like a coin that comes off an over oiled die that it’s hard for me to just toss it aside and say it came out of a dryer.
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Re: Found a Jefferson Nickel I’m needing some help identifying
What exactly make you think this coin is an error especially since you cannot find it listed on any site?Mrjonrosas817 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 11:21 pm Hello everyone, I was hoping to see if anyone could help me with this possible error.
I went to a coin collectors estate sale where I purchased a box of coins. Inside this box I found a nickel that I’m pretty positive is a mint error. I’ve seen many times graded nickels that look like this one where PCGS / NGC recognized it as a mint error.
Let me know what you think
Are sure they are exactly like the one you posted?
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Re: Found a Jefferson Nickel I’m needing some help identifying
A grease filled die never looks like this, another giveaway is the thickness of the coin, which is way finner than it should be, indicating a altered coin.Mrjonrosas817 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 11:34 pm It looks so much like a coin that comes off an over oiled die that it’s hard for me to just toss it aside and say it came out of a dryer.
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Re: Found a Jefferson Nickel I’m needing some help identifying
Awesome well I appreciate your all’s options. Thanks for taking the time to look it over for me.
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Re: Found a Jefferson Nickel I’m needing some help identifying
Looks like it was hit with a bead blaster. I took a small engine repair class as a high schooler and we ran a few coins into it just to see what would happen and looked very similar to this.
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What do you think about the option of it being acid treated?
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Re: Found a Jefferson Nickel I’m needing some help identifying
Could you post an image or a link where PCGS and NGC graded a coin that looks like this as a mint error? Thanks
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Re: Found a Jefferson Nickel I’m needing some help identifying
Sorry, this is obviously nothing like a dryer coin. No raised rim and smooth OBV and REV. Please search dryer coin at error-ref.com. Take the thread there for the Dryer coins 101 thread.Just a very, very, worn Jefferson nickel. Not a mint error in any way, possible “dryer coin”.
Nope. A soak in acid will eave the surface mottled/pitted and not smooth. In my chemistry classes I used to deliberately put coins into nitric acid so my students got a good visual on remembering nirtic acid was used to dissolve metals.What do you think about the option of it being acid treated?
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