1956 P Jefferson tapered planchet

Picked this up today. I’ve heard of tapered planchet errors but never seen one before. Any thoughts or info on this coin or the error type is greatly appreciated. It’s also a higher grade 1956 P Jefferson. Weighs 4.50g.

Thanks.

 

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I don't think that is a tapered planchet. It looks like an altered surface.
IMHO

The lack of the upraised rim makes it questionable.

Tapered Planchets

I will tag
@mikediamond @Fred Weinberg @JCro57

 

It looks altered to me, too, but I'm pretty ignorant of such things.

 

I don’t think it’s altered PMD at all but like I said, I’m not an expert on this type of error. I did look up several slabbed tapered Jefferson errors that have sold on Heritage over the years and this looks almost identical, but again I’m here to learn. Here’s a link to one example.

https://coins.ha.com/itm/errors/195...0411-52236.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

Thanks.

 

Interesting that both examples have a short taper to them. Like only less than a quarter of the planchet was affected. The reverse shows a slight upraised rim. I agree the obv looks damaged, but the coin as a whole does not.

 

Now that you're shared that example. I think your Nickel could be a tapered planchet.
Interesting.

 

Nice find.

 

It looks like it’s been ground down but it also looks like the real thing.

 

It looks to me like PMD. There's no way that it happened at the mint.

 

For the guys saying it is PMD, could you please explain the strike weakness in the "C" and "T" in cents without having any disturbance to the metal surface?

Not an error guy, but considering the similarity to the Heritage tapered planchet shown, it looks legit to me.

 

With the example given, I'm convinced you may well have a tapered planchet. As I said before, I'm no expert.

 

I sold on this being an error. Not bad value for a nickel.
Not worth grading in my opinion.

 

I didn’t pay a nickel for it. But they generally sell in the $60-80 range so I’m still way in the good on it.