Am i the only one that see's & S mm

Doe's anyone else see an -S-mm under the lamination damage? If so would u please .

 

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Sorry, don't see it. Not sure how it would have gotten there anyway.

 

I can't even see a coin.

 

You can occasionally see weak/mushy design elements under thin detached laminations and strike throughs. However, the raised area that you're referencing looks more like damage or a remnant of missing area. Based on the pic, I'm not even convinced it's a lamination. It could be a strike through or even damage.

 

Welcome to the neighborhood @leonardocs !

The only thing I can suggest is that you stop examining coins with a USB microscope.

Chris

 

Spoiler

"See's" is neither conjunctive nor possessive. ....and I'm not sure what female deers have to do with anything...

 

My bad, I forgot to say "welcome to the forum"!

What year is the coin you're picturing?

 

Thanks everyone for the welcome' & sorry for the bad photo. I don't know much about this forum so please bear with me while i learn. 2 more pic's. PS- whats a usb microscope?

 

The plot thickens...

 

MM's are usually pretty pronounced. If you have to look for some tracer it's probably not an MM.

 

Please accept my apology. Extreme close-ups are often created using a USB digital microscope that can often enlarge an image as much as 200x. This sort of magnification in coin photography is more useless than useful. As a rule, if you can't see an error under 10x magnification, it's not worth keeping. That is not to say that images with a magnification of 40x-60x can't be used on forums like this to show what we are viewing.

Chris

 

Sorry for the off topic digression, but please keep in mind the quoted magnification of USB microscopes includes the "screen magnification" as well. Most USB scopes have fairly low optical magnification, typically <10x, and get their "magnification" by presenting onto your monitor. Don't let them fool you with their quoted "200x" magnification...the sensor in the camera is perhaps 1/2", so when presented on a 23" monitor the screen magnification is ~50. Optical mag in this case is only 4x.

 

Hi Chris' The photos are taken with a nikon B700. It's the photolab i should stay away from. larry

 

If I may... what is it that you see?

 

OK? Larry

 

The damage on the reverse is lamination peeling & it looks to me that the peeling actually took most of the Smm with it. The coin is a 1942 nickel' with what i think is Smm on the side of the building. Thanks larry

 

There are no 1942-S nickels with the S on the side.
There are 1942 plain and 1942-D.
And in the silver there are 1942-P and 1942-S above the dome.

 

What kind of treasure map is that
Could be a nights templar cross.

 

Do u know anything about the Frith nickel? Google Frith nickel & read about it. You will be amazed. Let me know what u think. Thanks. Larry

 

I am familiar with that unique coin. There is something suspicious about that story. Since SF didn't make any pre war strikes that year. If one was made,
then the way coins are minted, dozens/ or more may be in circulation. It would be impossible to just make 1 in a regular production run since they only made the large dome S silver nickel that year.
Collectors and experts have been examining the 1942 nickel for 75 years.
Good luck if you think you have the 2nd one.
Rereading the story it says it has been "verified by experts". Yet it sounds like it was never authenticated by a grading service.