Hi everyone I came across this 2005 D nickel. It reads “ Ocean in view! Q ! The joy! Die chip on the O. It also looks like double on the 5 in 1805 and a few of the letters. Possible Die deterioration?
Lol, your funny, I like you Clearly the die chip is much bigger than what you could carve out of the “ O “. It’s almost a straight line ontop of the O. If you like a better angle I can take another pic. @Conder101 what do you think?@paddyman98 ?
@cpm9ball i hope you know that I mean everything in the most caring way . At press speed of two strikes per second, anything can happen. There is always a possibility of human error.
Whoa now, rabbit! You should give me a little more credit than that. My skin is a bit thicker than some of the folks around here. No offense taken! On the contrary, I enlarged your photo of the reverse by clicking on it, and even though it is slightly blurred, the mark at the base of the "O" appears to be recessed with a slight amount of coin metal pushed up along the bottom edge. To me, this suggests that it was caused by a light hit from another object, probably the edge of another coin, after it was minted. Chris
I agree 100% with Chris. You can see a snall but clear hit at 9:00 on the O. It goes from left to right in a downward motion, making the displaced metal appear to be a Q. It took a hit so it's damaged.
