2000-d nickel 4.15G gold tone?

With that being said I guess I’ll send to pcgs and let you all know what the real deal is. Hoping it’s something beyond just a underweight planchet and maybe after 23 years of searching I found something unique?

 

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I believe you want the nickel attributed, not necessarily graded. Others please correct me if I'm wrong, but ANACS (https://www.anacs.com/anacsservices.aspx) would be the least expensive to do so. Good luck and let us know the results.

 

No, it's not worth getting graded, even if it turns out to be a thinly rolled planchet.
Acid is still a possibility. Just because you didn't dip it in acid doesn't mean someone else couldn't have, unless you put this coin in your pocket when it came off the line at the mint. Line it up with some other nickels to see if it is thinner. If it has the same diameter/ circumference as the other nickels, then it's not acid.
As for the gold patina/ toning, it doesn't mean anything.

 

First, sorry for any insult you perceived, but you are probably the only one on this site that didn't get a chuckle from the Snoop Dog thing.

 

Hope the 14-D is real, now that might be worth getting graded/authenticated. As for the nickel, I don't think a thin planchet is worth that much, perhaps @Insider and @Fred Weinberg could chime in here with some more professional info.

 

The 14-D images are a little small, but the mintmark doesn't look wrong in the small image, so could well be correct, same for the die crack from the coat. If yoy are unfamiliar, here is url:

https://coinauctionshelp.com/1914-d-lincoln-cent-counterfeit/

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/authentic-vs-counterfeit-1914-d-lincoln.76229/

Jim

 

Cleaning the 14-D was a mistake.
You may have turned a $400-$500 coin into a $100 coin.

 

I feel slighted, see post #6.

I would so no to it being acid soaked to loose the weight, surfaces don't show it.

As to the 14 D, nothing is jumping out at me to say it is bad.

 

Ha ha. Ya beat me to it. Only 2cd to the "zig-zag man"

 

It should be right on 5 with the bag. Lol

 

Judging from your photos, it's not Full steps. I agree with @desertgem, the steps look smashed at both ends.
EDIT: On the enlarged photo, you can clearly see the left side of the steps, eliminate it from a FS designation.

 

Yeah eBay takes down any coin I post someone sent me a 1982-d zinc and said it was copper and now takes
Down everything.

 

A coin has to be between MS 60 and MS 70 to receive full steps designation.
So even if it had full steps, it's not an MS coin and would not get that attribution. Also, I don't remember the year, but the reverse die was reworked and all the modern nickels are SUPPOSED to have full steps.

The only thing this coin can have going for it at that weight is a thinly rolled planchet.

 

I used a tachometer for measuring metal diameters and it’s the same diameter as a regular nickel, same size and everything. If it’s not a thinly rolled planchet what else can it be? Any foreign planchet a? Canadian during the time frame possibly? I’m not sure if anything else is found or if any other similar errors were discovered. A Thinky rolled planchet would be at the minimum 15%+ smaller diameter if not more which would be fairly noticeable..

 

Huh? What's your question about this new nickel?

 

a "tachometer" ?

I didn't see this thread from the beginning. Wish I did, I'd point them to my thread about acid washing coins where a cent's thin copper color transfers to other coinage. Makes me wonder if the other coinage lost weight too in the acid. oh well, all those were put back into circulation.

 

No idea if this is your Snoop Dog coin in the OP from a few years ago or something new.

The Mint stopped making foreign coins in the 1980s and Denver stopped in the mid 70s.

No current US planchet is normally found in the 4.15 gram range

A thin strip planchet is punched to the correct diameter so it will strike up as the correct diameter. Only the thickness will vary depending on the thickness of the misrolled strip.

Some thin rolled strip errors can still have decent strikes depending on thickness and press set up

The gold tone leaves me suspicious because coloration like that rarely comes from the mint. It's usually plating or environmentally induced

Send it to ANACS for attribution, otherwise you're just going to keep coming up with wild, unlikely speculations.