I was putting nickles in a nickle roll when I saw this nickle sitting there, it has a circular flaw on it, and the metal where the circle appears is raised higher than the nickles face. I was searching on google for coins with errors and I couldn't find any nickles with the same flaw, but I found a dime that had what looked like the same flaw and the site referred to it as a "staple". The dime didn't have a circle flaw like my nickle, but one thing they both had in common is the dime was attracted to a magnet, and so is my nickle. If anyone knows anything about this please let me know, I couldn't find much info online about it.
I'm not sure, what do you mean by that? it looks almost like there is extra metal on it or something, but that might be because it got compressed and some of the metal that got pushed down came up and formed a ridge. But it does stick to a magnet, so there must be some extra metal. I guess if the nickle was butter, and you ran a wire through it, it could look kind of like this. As the wire ran through, it would push up the contents where the wire is running. One thing you can't see in the picture is, the T on Liberty is bubbled. I don't know if that changes anything. Just the area of the flaw is magnetic. If I hold a magnet to the Tails side of the coin it doesn't stick. I don't think its counterfeit though, I have another 1984 nickle that I found to compare and they look the same other than the flaw on it and one is from the P mint and one from D.
Ok I scanned it and its a way better picture, should of done that in the first place... So that spot with the half circle attracts a magnet, the reverse of the nickle doesn't, and you can kind of see the T on liberty has a bubble on it for some reason.
Looks like post mint damage to me. I see a little rust color in the groove, so whatever caused this left behind a little enough material that could of made that part of the coin magnetic...
It looks like PMD. If it had been a retained strikethrough, the metal along the edge of the anomaly would not have been pushed up. Chris
That's actually shadow on the picture I think, looking at the coin here and it is all silver, no visible rust color outside, or inside the groove. If the nickle weighs more or less than a normal nickle does that mean anything?? I could try and weigh it if that information would be important. This is the dime I found on google, it looked like the same type of error to me, let me know what you guys think. The part about the magnet in particular. This article was why I held the magnet to it in the first place. http://www.pocketchangelottery.com/pocketchange.htm
Without a picture comparable to the picture of the dime I don't think we can give you a meaningful assessment. We just can't see enough to tell what it is.
are there places/websites you can send this kind of coin to in order to tell if the flaw is pre/post mint?? I found a lot of sites that grade coins, but none that grade coin errors.... I'm not sure if coin grading also includes grading flaws/errors?
You could contact Ken Potter at koinpro.com. He's an authority on coin errors or there's also Mike Diamond, another expert, from CONECA who visits this site occasionally. Both would require close up photos to make a determination. It may be a "struck through" error. Good Luck!
Thanks for the info! I will try to get some better pictures up and try to find those guys to get their opinions.
Sorry, Bill! I didn't mean to exclude you from the list. I do consider you to be an expert as well. :bow:
