Found this while searching my weekly box of nickels. I think it may be struck on a foreign/wrong planchet or something. I really have no idea. It is thinner and a little bit wider than a regular nickel and on part of the edge has a groove in it - first picture next to a 1943P War Nickel. The reverse has reeding around the edge of the design but not the actual edge and the obverse has a strange pattern on the left side. Other than all that...it looks like any other nickel Any ideas as to what this is? I'm pretty sure it isn't PMD but other than that I have no clue. I couldn't find anything that looks like it in a quick google search. Thanks!
its post mint damage it was pressed into one of those lucky token things im sure lol its more common to see this damage on cents
Arg - if only I had a scale...I wouldn't be surprised if it's PMD. I've never seen a nickel pressed in a token thing.
Looks like someone attempted it but it didn't take (those things aren't big enough for something smaller than a penny). It looks to be normal diameter for a nickel give or take but flattened a little by what's essentially an incomplete counterstrike.
Yep removed from an encasement. And nickel encasement, while less common than cents, are not that unusual, Encasements can be found with many different coins in them even up to silver dollars.
Conder, Why would it have the (rather) jagged reeding on the reverse and the depression in the middle of the edge? I'm just trying to understand how they mount these coins. Chris
The coin is placed in a blank disk with a hole the same size as the coin. Then the DISK is struck with a die that has a hole in the center. The hole in the die is either the same size as the hole in the disk or slightly smaller. The idea is that when the disk is struck the metal not only expands out against the surrounding collar but also expands inward to press against the coin. When the hole in the die is slightly smaller it also hits the edge of the coin. This can do two things. It can cause the edge of the coin to be flattened down over the edge of the disk, and it can cause the edge of the coin to buckle inward making the edge concave. The metal of the disk expands into this concavity effectively locking the the two pieces together. It is much harder to knock the coin out of the hole because the metal of the disk is effectively inside the edge of the coin. The jagged reeding is because the die had a design right at the edge of the hole. Snce the hole was smaller than the coin it was impressed on the edge of the nickel. A commonly seen example of this is seen on the 1901 Pan Amercian encasements. The obverse design was a four leaf clover and the edging and veining of the clover extended right up to the edge of the hole in the die. The hole was slightly smaller than the Indian head cent they used and the edge and veins of the clover extend right out onto the rim of the cent. When you see a cent that has been removed you see some odd markings on the rim and what many people take to be a rim cud between the groups of marks. The "cud" is actually the space on the rim between the leaves of the clover. I wish I could remember which forum it was on, one of these 1901 indians was posted as a what is it within the past week. it was identified and they posted it's image next to a still encased specimen so you could see exactly what had happened.
Found the post I described above with the 1901 indian head cent and the pictures of the encasement http://www.cointalk.com/t218392/
Thanks for the info! I learn something new every time I come on here. I wish I knew what they were trying to cram it into. I think I'll keep it in my odd's n' ends tube
