Hi! I was recently given a lot of coins by a friend, and one of them looks like it's either a mint error or a regular nickel somebody faked to look like one. It's a 1982-P nickel. The obverse has the regular design, plus the obv and rev mirror image of a dime. The reverse has the original design, plus 2 mirror image stamps of a nickel reverse. I'm leaning heavily towards fake since the dime design is from 1990-something and the nickel is from 1982. Pics are attached But I don't know much about error coins (foreign & ancients are my specialties), especially modern US ones. Thoughts??
This is post-mint damage (PMD). You can tell because the words are backwards. Someone tried to use a vise (or hammer) to imprint one coin into another. ~ Chris
A Vise job where a coin is pressed against another ( notice lettering aand all is reversed and the rim goes inward and not outward. Jim
Ah I see, not surprised. I figured it was something like that, but wanted to hope for it being a real error.
The letters on the coin are backwards. That means it was squeezed in a vise to try a make an error. It's damaged.
