I recently came across two nickels' while roll serching that had the die cleary offset. It is an error but a slight error. My question is whether this would be considered an error coin or just another plain jane jefferson. Just Curious.
Sorry I work 12 hour days two to four weeks at a time 200 miles away from home, where they are. I will have a photo tomorrow hopefully.
Off center strikes usually don't carry a premium until they're 5-10% off center. The premium starts really growing when words, numbers, or images are missing or partly missing.
Most likely what he has is a misaligned die. If so, yes they are an error, but they are a very minor error and are so common that in most cases they have no premium value. But just because they don't have a premium doesn't mean they aren't errors.
+ sometimes they can also be a sign of die alignment strikes/trials or what not. look close for other errors! e.g. weak strikes/ hard strikes or any other indication of other errors.
Ok here is what I was talking about. The more close I examine the ones from 1979 and 1989 I realize they are nothing. The coin from 1982 is the most prominent of those I have on hand. The other from 1975 baffles me due to its copperish color. I don't know if it is a plating issue or what? Any info would be great, thanks.
That is what I thought, on the other hand what is the issue with that particular nickel? I assume there has to be something wrong with it or its manufacture for it to come up with the odd copper tinting.
The odd color does not have to be due to a manufacturing problem. All sorts of chemicals can cause a coin to tone. This coin could have come into contact with some substance along the way that caused it to tone the way it did. There is something called 'sintering' that causes a coin to have copper deposited on the suface of the coin during one of the planchet preparation processes (washing I think). I do not think you have sintered coin.
