This is my 1st error coin to buy , I thought it was pretty cool. its a 1945 P and the area that was laminated wrong that looks like its peeling up is very fragile , hard to imagine for 65 years it didnt manage to fall off. here are the pics. I was just wondering what this would be worth as Im new to coin collecting and I wanted to have some type of machining error coin.
It's called a clamshell when it splits such that you can slide a piece of paper into the separation. It's not actually uncommon on the war nickels - the metal mix led to these and numerous other kinds of (more insignificant) laminations and such. Nice find, I think I paid $30 for mine (slabbed by ANACS). Like all errors on war nickels (and most other coins I guess), they are much more common on the P coins than D and then S.
Thats cool, I took mine out of the holder to put it in the new one, just to see the level of the raise. but I paid 20.00 for it, so I felt that was not to bad of a price. The other one I bought was a 1984 5% off center strike for 8.00 dollars, but thats it for now, so thats the only 2 errors I have, hope to get more later. Looks like your nickel goes alot deeper and its alot cleaner too.
Its a 1985P Quarter Heres the front and back...the coin guy said it was 5% off but it looks to me a little more than that but I dont know.
$8 sounds is a deal on that one. That error is much rarer on quarters than dimes or nickels or cents for sure.
My buddy said between moving he lost a quater that was I guess double stamped but way off center like a 50% off where you could see 40% of both parts of the quarter....I told him he needed to find it as I see they go for around 300.00.....
