2016 nickel with a dime embedded in it.

Hi. I was wondering if someone could please tell me if this is an error coin.

 

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Can you tell if the dime design is incuse or not? It looks like it's a vise job where the coins are compressed on one another. For a coin to have a legitimate double design a mint associate would have to create it by unnatural means. But stranger things have happened...

 

It's probably impossible for such a coin to be accidentally created at the mint like that.
Some of the lettering looks reversed.

 

IMO someone outside of the Mint went to a lot of trouble to create that. Considered damaged, not a mint error. Combination of a vise job and only the one who made it knows what else.

 

A nickel can’t fit inside of a dime coining press. The coin is clearly PMD.

 

a vice job ?

 

The OP created multiple threads
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/2016-nickel-error.347849/

It is a vice job. Damaged.

 

It is a nickel that has had a dime glued to it and then the dime removed leaving the incuse impression of the dime in the glue. Look closer, you can see bubbles in the glue.

Not a vise job.