I got this in change today and noticed what seems to be another building printed sideways over the reverse, with what look like multiple cuds around the image also. Thoughts? Post mint damage? The nickel is NOT bent or warped, which is usually the case with this sort of thing if it is indeed post mint damage.
I put that nickle on a piece of wood face down, then i placed another onto face up...and wacked it with a sledge hammer.
BTW, Amos, I love this new way of answering these types of questions. I may start using it from now on.
I don't see anything which would be recognizable as a "building" and strongly suspect post mint damage.
I'm not sure what is going on above the AT but the rest of it looks like it was struck through a detached lamination.
This. Too much detail in Monticello survives to take the easy way out and instantly pronounce it PMD. I suspect the lamination was detached by the strikethrough.
So I'm seeing it's either a worthless damaged coin, or some kind of lamination issue. Aside from what's struck into the coin, I'm curious as to what you guys think the extra "cud" looking things are, one being above the TA in UNITED STATES, and the other being at the top left corner of the building?
Those would be loose parts of the lamination (still theory, but the theory I'm going with) having been folded over into the wrong place by the strike and subsequent circulation. A postmint hit could also possibly cause that as well, but it's my feel that such a hit would cause more damage to the design than is seen here because it was hard enough to smear metal. A lamination would leave underlying design, like we see in Monticello.
