Found something pretty awesome! Please help me out.

Unbelievable. I would not sell a coin knowing it's PMD. It sound EXACTLY like silver when I dropped it.

You know what I don't have time for this. I'm sorry to anyone that thinks I used them. Geez

 

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These are the types of listings that gives the error hobby a bad taste. Someday the buyer will realize what he or she won. Shame on the bidder for not being well educated but shame on the lister for "baiting" that person in. I don't know if anyone else has the same view as me but I sick of seeing acid treated coins listed on ebay.

 

The auction has been ended.

Yea!

 

• goose3737
  
  Added to my list of eBay sellers to stay away from. He came on here acting like he knew little about error coins. Look at his ebay account; all he sells is coins.

 

LOL

I was going to post but saw 3 pages, I knew someone would figure it out

 

Indeed. Here's another one with question marks in the description.http://www.ebay.com/itm/1922-No-D-Lincoln-Wheat-Error-Variety-Coin-/170851244233?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item27c78718c9
Why pick 22? Couldn't it just as well be 32?

 

Yes, I noticed that one as well DTMenace. He has a way of hyping these questionable coins, doesn't he....

As I said earlier......Boooooo

 

So how would soaking the coin in acid make it so thin?
I just don't see it without totally destroying the detail as thin as it is.

 

Jim answered that here in post #22.

Read more: http://www.cointalk.com/t207334-2/#ixzz1wmOClIvD​

 

Yeah, I read the thread.
I just don't see it.
That is a great deal of detail for such a loss of volume.
Especially the letters.

 

I've posted thinner cents on here before that retained much of the design and were also deemed to be acid coins. they too had a funny 'ring' to them when dropped, but I attribute the tone directly to the loss of mass after the acid ate into it.

 

Is "smoosh" a technical minting term?

 

I'm totally with you on this one . I don't think it would be possible for this to be a acid job , if it was done by any type acid the surface would have deep craters like the surface of the moon. If it is PMD then it's possible it may be a magicians coin like someone told the op it may be. it looks like the coin may have been taken apart and some metal removed and soldered back together and the outer edge ground off to hide the seam.

 

Well seeing as i just saw this picture, I am saying PMD......if you look closely at the picture above, you can see the seam running its course thru the center of this nickel and it being ground on the outside trying to hide it. Obviously someone intentionally did this to deceive (why would it be a magicians coin? i can t think of a trick to support it).

 

I think we may have finally narrowed this one down . if it is part of a magicans coin then maybe this was the part that fit inside of a normal nickle that had been hollowed out for this one. this way the magican could produce two coins from one.

 

First, you will not get "moon craters" from acid unless, you are using exremely strong acid and dropping it on drop by drop/ If you put the coin into a diluted acid, it will slowly react with the metal. If it is a magician coin half, then why didn't they remove the reverse since by this hypothesis they had metal working tools? All of the magician coins I have seen are made that way.

To see how acid could dissolve equally, draw a side view with somewhat exaggerated highs and lows, and then draw another image inside that is about 10-20% less, following the contours, the details will stay easily recognizable unless the coin metal is not homogeneous. Remember when we are comparing the thickness of the coin, we are looking a piece of metal that had the acid working on both sides.

So I took a sample of nickels and measured their thickness, the average was 1.95mm +/- .04mm. The average thickness of sample of silver Roosies were 1.22 +/- .03mm, so a silver dime is 1.95 -1.22 or .73mm thinner.

Using a magnifier, I measured the distance from the rim of a normal nickel from the edge of the coin to almost touching the bottom of the letters on the reverse( to mimic the OP coin), and the distance was about 0.45mm average, so the effects of an acid to reduce the thickness of the nickle from 1.95 to 1.05 ( little less than a dime) would only reduce the diameter of the coin from 21.2 mm to 20.3mm ( 2x.45) which is Not as noticeable as what appears to be the 50% approx. thickness when the reduction in the diameter is only approx. 5%.

Also, remember that chemicals such as Nic-A-Date are acid or similar used to bring back details due to changes in the crystal structure of the nickle metal mixture.

I see the coin as surely done by an acid unless it is a silver blank, but I think that unlikely. % are very low for that.

Anyway, that is my explanation and I am sticking to it, without it in my hands. IMO of course.

Jim

 

thats so cool!!

 

But of course, you need to "smoosh" the planchet to make a coin. Some people say strike, but it is not nearly as descriptive

 

And now everybody that has First Strikes are going to have to have them reholdered to the new First Smoosh labels.

Strike doubling will now be known as smoosh doubling.

 

lol.
Off center smoosh.