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19 62,63 and 64 proofs are some of the sweetest colors ....I have several in those dates where the color and strike look electric blue !

 

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I STILL haven't been able to find either of the 2020 nickels in circulation, and we're already halfway thru the 9th month. Got my first Salt River Bay quarter in change two days ago.

 

Easily one of the best US coin designs ever, that buffalo nickel.

 

I know...take it out of the 2 x 2 before photographing. But this came out pretty well in the holder. Pretty close to 6fs, possibly all the way there. Maybe MS63 or 64...

 

How about some proof shield nickels.

 

Pretty rough bunch there...thanks man!

 

I grade that MS65 6FS. Nice early Jeff.

 

Thanks definitely has 65 luster.

 

here are some for my 7070 when it arrives

 

forgot this one

 

Before dawn on June 25th, 1918 the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train (on its way to Hammond, Indiana from Michigan) stopped in Ivanhoe, Indiana. It was rear-ended by an empty troop train. The circus train cars were made of wood and used kerosene for lighting. Most of the entertainers and workers were asleep in the rear cars. The ensuing fire killed over a hundred performers. A day or two after the wreck my grandfather and father (6 years old) walked from their house to the site. My dad found this badly burned Liberty Nickel. Five cents was the general admission cost for the circus and often the workers were paid in nickels.

 

Liberty head nickel from my grandpa who died in the 1990's when he was 95 never got to see him Buffalo nickel is from my uncle when he got it as change from a coke machine in the 1970's when he was a child.

 

Now, that is a valuable nickel. Glad you have it.

 

what an amazing story. Thank you for sharing it with us.

 

I posted this a few months ago and got a variety of explanations and I have shown it to several local “experts” who have also expressed their opinions on it. The surface is broken and there is what I initially believed to be brown paint underneath.

I’ve been told the discolorization is environmental damage (so why isn’t the whole coin affected? I’ve been told it’s the copper content of a nickel (so shouldn’t it be uniformly mixed with the nickel content?) And it was suggested it is on a quarter planchette and that is the clad layer (but it weighs like a nickel)

it may be nothing or it might be something. Whatever it’s definitely unique.

 

Would a quarter planchet fit into a nickel collar for striking?

 

A quarter planchet would not fit into a nickel collar.
If the rim shows a clad layering then it is possible that it was cut from quarter sheet goods. But this definitely looks like corrosion to me.

 

ARRR ! Nickels !! It's hard to see but this is an 1868 FS-904 ungraded.