Jefferson Nickel Collection—Capital Plastics—1938-1960

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1942-P: MS65
1942-S: MS65
1943-P: MS65
1943-D: MS65
1943-S: MS65
1944-P: MS64
1944-D: MS67 (Near 5FS)
1944-S: MS66
1945-P: MS65
1945-D: MS64
1945-S: MS66

 

I don't know what they did or how they did it, but someone took very good and proper care of these coins. (Unless they have been miracle dipped.)
They don't look improperly cleaned or anything like that. They just look
SO GOOD, are they too good to be true?
Collectively, the best looking early Jefferson's I have ever seen.

 

They are very nice, and many of the coins are solid gems, but in the Jefferson Nickel world, only premium gems drive good prices. So far, I have only found 4 coins worthy of submission, and none of the 4 were war nickels. The 44-D has an outside chance at MS67 5FS but I’m going to sell them as a set so I decided not to submit it.

 

So I won’t jam up your notifications with likes, I’ll just say each and everyone of those looks good! Where did you find that set?

 

E-Bay, bought it for $250.

And you can jam my notifications all you want, I don't even pay attention to them.

 

I think your photos did a good job of describing the surfaces. They look real flashy and full of luster.

That 44D is a very nice looking Jeff
Very clean.
I was going to ask you about those ticks in the steps. They look minor. It's really gonna depend if they see that fifth step as complete. It looks like the contact may have blended a few with the riser.
I see that indent going across the top step. When I look at contact. I definitely look and see if there is luster. This thought of planchet defects as an excuse for full steps?
Unless the planchets were horrible for the year. Like the early 60's? There is no excuse to use it as a cripple for the designation.

 

I don't think they would allow for full steps based on planchet flaws for war nickels, as every date/mm is pretty well struck, but I do think they have done that for some of the rarer dates like you have mentioned.

Regarding the 44-D, I think it is clearly an MS67 coin, but I don't think that NGC would give it 5FS. I'm not so much worried about little mark on the top step in the 4th quadrant, I think they would allow that, but there is some very minor bridging under the 3rd column on the 3rd & 4th steps that would preclude the designation.



Like I said, it has an outside chance at full steps, but I certainly wouldn't expect it to come back. I had a war nickel with stronger steps in my last submission that didn't get full steps.

 

Looks like I am already the beneficiary of some of those beautiful Jeffs. Already bought two, and will get some more.

 

Are you working on a war nickel registry collection? Feel free to use my photos if you are. The 45-S is amazing btw, so clean.

 

I stared and stared at the reverse of that 41-d, and now I want oranges.

 

Working on a 1938-1950 high grade Jefferson set, not registry specifically. I saw the 45s—just bought it.

 

Just pulled the trigger on the 45s, as it is amazing looking. I thought it deserved a 67*, or 67+ grade, actually.



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