1954 D/S nickel

I found this 1954 nickel with a clear s coming from the bottom of the D. From all the research I have done and I have done a lot there has never been one found! I would like anyone's opinion on this. Real/fake. An if it's real how would you put a value on this marvelous piece?

 

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For me that photo looks like the D is inverted??

 

Welcome to CT Patrick. There are known S over S and D over S errors for this year. The S on your coin is lower than all of the examples I've seen. A D over S has a small portion of the S showing above the top of the D. Yours does not. Wait for some of the error collectors to chime in.

 

This is a picture of my coin with a S mint photo shopped over where the S on my coin is. It looks so much better when your sitting over it looking through a loupe trust me. I don't have the equipment to get high quality pics yet

 

Sorry incused not inverted

 

Not the D /S variety you will find in 53,54,years there are quite a few nickels with die chips in the mm. If it was an D/S you wouldn't be questioning it ....plain as day .

 

this is plain as day. I really wish I could zoom in on this guys. I'm not questioning if it's an S I just need more opinions because the 54 D/S is so scarce that it's almost impossible to find anything about it

 

Yes, it would be nice to find one with the "S" mintmark so far south, but it just doesn't look like one to me. You also have to consider that if the Mint employee had misplaced the wrong mintmark so far south that it extended over the base of the building, he would have made some attempt to polish it out of the die. Think about it.

Chris

 

I can see the S or something that gives the appearance of an S in the photo. I take your word for it that it's clearer in hand, which is usually the case anyway. I think it's interesting. I don't know much about these types of errors, but I would definitely hold on to it and do some more research. Hope it turns out to be a good one for you.

 

I'm hoping he was hungover that day and just said the hell with it . Thank you

 

It doesn't look like one to you? What are you looking at? LOL

I don't agree that a mint employee would have noticed it and polished it out. Errors happen. That is why they are out there and why they are called errors. Perhaps the mint employee totally missed. Or maybe he was feeling really lazy that day. Or maybe he was under a lot of pressure to get things done in time and just said did it sloppy and without fixing it.

 

When I was typing my previous post, I actually wrote "maybe he sad the hell with it" and then changed it to "did it sloppy and without fixing it". LOL. Now that I read it I still left the "said" and forgot to take that out. LOL. Not gonna edit it so you can see it.

 

The 54 S/D & S/S are not scarce in fact I've have purchased a roll of 54 D and S nickels and had better than 60 % D/S or S/S in said rolls. Your coin is not a S/D . Sorry look up the variety it looks nothing like your coin or a photo shopped version .

 

I have never seen anything like your nickel. As for the varieties for 1954, there are three recognized relating to the mintmark.

1954 D/D



1954 S/D



1954 S/S



I have never seen a mintmark that far south on a Jefferson Nickel. I think people are confusing the 1954 with the 1955 which has over ten varieties of the D/S. This is something different that I have never seen before.

 

Your image of the photo shop ' s' that is not the style of "S" mm that would of been used in 54. Look at the S and study the serifs.
You can even go to varietyvista.com and study mint marks used in each year.

 

Ok with that being said would my nickel carry any value being as it's an error coin? Thanks for that information any and all I get is very appreciated.

 

I will tell you like I've been told by Wiles,Wexler etc. Show me another one just like yours then we are talking about a variety . If it is a variety yes but no attribution is going to be done unless in most cases another specimen has been noted. Case in point I have a roll of 1953 D nickels 90% of the rolls to my eyes look like a D/D and even though I have 30 plus nickels that look the same according to the experts it nothing more than a die chip. I see nothing on your coin that to my eyes say it's an D/S nickel. The first clue is the mm style. No where close to the style used in 54.

 

Let's see a full image of both obv. And rev. Of the coin.

 

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