1867/1867 Without Rays Shield Nickel

You might recall I was asking about this coin two weeks ago.
It's now mine.

 

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pretty cool nickel, Kanga, did you buy it for type, or are you working on shield nickel varieties now?

 

Shield Nickels are one of my "back burner" interest areas.
Up to this point I had been working on a common die variety set.
But this has led me to find out that there are a lot more than I originally thought.

 

I see this was sold back in May for far less.

https://www.greatcollections.com/Coin/1195444/18671867-Shield-Nickel-No-Rays-VP-015-NGC-MS-61

https://www.icollector.com/1867-No-Rays-VP-015-Shield-Nickel-NGC-MS61_i45237986

 

Someone is smiling all the way to the bank.

 

https://www.ngccoin.com/variety-plus/united-states/nickels/shield-five-cents-1866-1883/820170/

 

Nice nickel kanga! I love the die cracks. This makes me want to get my album out and check my '67

 

From what I've seen published (somewhere) there are lots of repunched dates.
Die breaks are common too.

Nickel planchets were giving the Mint grief.
The Mint was in the learning process with nickel.
Harder metal than they were used to.

 

Holy crapoly. Someone did make good money on that, but now @kanga owns it and proud he should be.

 

I got mine from my father's collection. I haven't really studied it. It's still in a 2x2.

 

Congratulations on the pickup.

 

I could do better, just kidding no I can't congrats Kanga...

 

That’s a beauty. Love that 7

 

is the 1 a blob or part of the double stanp

 

I’d be happy with just one of those. Would coin star spit those out in the reject bin

 

Beautiful coin! Congrats!