I just got this for my album. I believe it is real and not a fake but if somebody thinks otherwise feel free to chime in. It weighs 5.03 grams, just a hair over the 5.0 it’s supposed to be and diameter is dead on 21.2 mm. I noticed something weird under the chin so put a loupe on it and I see part of the UNU of UNUM and part of a B and U of Pluribus from the reverse which lines up with that spot. Looking at it with the naked eye it just looks like a spike coming off the neck. It’s the indentation between the rows of text. Do you think the die was repaired but they just left this little bit they didn’t get? I’m trying to picture how this could happen and why there isn’t more visible. Any thoughts? This is around an XF. It does have a full horn.
Here is one of my 1914 P with the clash under the chin and the Buffalo Tail clash in front of the obverse nose.
Yeah, that is my iphone looking through a loupe in the first two. A little tricky but doable if you get the light and distances right. I could get better photos of it but this was just a quick inquiry initially.
When I was a YN. I found one of these nickels with letters under the chin. I didn't know about die clashes. I took it to my local coin shop and the guy told me it was damage! I could plainly see letters. I t took me a few years to find out I was correct - they were letters form the revers BUT AT THE TIME I learned NEVER TO TRUST THE OPINION OF OTHERS!
I took two Peace Dollars to one of the most prestigious coin shops in the Houston area. I was told that they had been cleaned and were not worth much. I had you look at them and they were found to be MS-61 and MS-63. Trusting is difficult in this hobby.
