1950-D nickel found in circulation - real or fake?

10 days ago I found a 1950-d nickel in change and in circulated condition, I found it super interesting.

I know a lot of you have searched massive amounts of coins over several years and have never found one and usually when found are closer to mint state.

This one appears to have had been under ground hence the environmental damage and also seemed to have circulated for awhile. I found it (literally) to be a rare conditional find and likely wouldn't happen again.

So I am off today and looking at the coin in hand again and my gut is telling me it's a counterfeit. Die struck most likely which intrigues me even more having pulled it from circulation. I feel is was thrown back into circulation once determined as fake and so it has been passed as true coinage circulating not through numismatic ventures. The weight is 4.8 grams and the edge is crude and rough which could be from the environmental damage. What are your thoughts? Real or fake?

 

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Looks good to me ...yes environmental damage but someone here not long ago posted a 50 D from change. And again being found in the wild during the 60's next to impossible . Now a days different story.
A 50 D in the mid 60's unc around $35.
Today $12.
$35. In 1960's money equal to almost 10 times today's money. So adjust for inflation $300. Buying power. Vs $12.00 today.

 

Real.

 

I've found a couple of them from roll searches - I believe nowadays non-collectors don't even notice them.

 

+1, Very nice find! Too bad not more eye appeal.

 

That's awesome. I did a lot of roll searching while trying to complete my 38-58 Jefferson Whitman album and the scarcest one I found was a 1939-S. Definitely a coin I like imagining the journey it took before landing in its final resting place.

If real that would be a great one to start a collection with.... I had to buy the 50-D at the dealer as the final coin, but she was kind enough to sell me a circulated one for five bucks instead of jacking up the price above the UNC ones that were available.

 

Not a big score by any means but Nickel guys always get so exited to see one found in circulation. They always lament the fact that it's the only one they couldn't find searching

 

Good deal.

Thanks for the comments.

 

Found one in circulation when I was a kid. Which was later lost/ destroyed in a fire.
I bought one at a coin show (MS-63) and a more circulated one from EBay.
They are out there. They made 2 million of them and all of them are not in collections.
Nice find. There is some damage, but it's still a score.

 

I recall, about 2 years ago that i bought a whitman jefferson folder complete sans the 50-D. Oddly enough, a buddy of mine found a 50-D in change like the next day and mentioned it to me. We settled on $5, it was XF/AU as i recollect

 

I could never find one in the wild as a young lad. Congrats OP.

 

The 50-D was the only one I never found in pocket change.

 

real