PMD or Error damaged

Here is a coin I have been looking at for 10 minutes.

 

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Damaged,someone had to much playtime with there tools,still a nickel.

 

Stop looking at it.. It's damaged.

 

A Coinstar machine will easily reject that damaged Nickel. I don't think any store would take it..

Would you?

It's worthless!

 

Yes but technically still 5 cents,you would be surprised most youngsters wouldn't care and put it in the register anyway.

 

Kind of weird how the damage is on top of the Letters

 

Just curious why would the damage be over the letters

 

Looks like it got dragged across a parking lot.

 

Because it won't be UNDER the letters. Think about it, if I damage a coin, USUALLY the highest part of it (the letters and design) will be damaged first.

 

hahaha. Im thinking different about how it turns out. I mean like why is there like die on top of the Letters. Why is there like a die clash on top of the letter that goes through. Oh well, I think I spent enough time on 1 coin haha.

 

That's really sad to hear. Shows how much they don't care about anything.

 

There is no die clash. It's just smeared and displaced metal. Your coin is nothing more than a heavily damaged coin

Just because you can't explain how damage occurs doesn't make it an error. In fact, that's the worst assumption you can make. ALL errors can be explained in terms of the minting or die making process. Any thoughts on how this occurred during the minting process?

I believe it's been suggested that you take some if your error searching time to study the minting and die making processes. If you have a basic understanding of those processes, it's easy to see that this is PMD. I'm pretty sure you were given the following links in previous posts, but in case you didn't save them and want to do a little resesrch, here they are again

https://www.coinnews.net/2014/01/06/how-the-denver-mint-makes-dies-to-produce-coins/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=104&v=mqPvKxJXC_Y&feature=emb_title

 

Definitely damaged

 

When I was first starting, I took the advice of experienced collectors and studied the minting process. If I find a coin, such as yours, I try to imagine how it could have been damaged during the minting. If I can't find a possible reason, then it is safe to assume it is just a PMD coin. During the process of minting, the newly created coins go through a machine called the Riddler. Your coin would have failed and been rejected. I know, I know, how do some of the oversize, real mint errors get through it? Well, the mint has employees that are just human, and some of them "help" errors through.

 

Nice pics but remember to include the entire coin, both sides. PMD, thanks for sharing and keep posting.