Let's start a long lasting thread on V Nickels! Share thoughts about the coin and thoughts on your collection. So I hope to see a great turnout for this new thread. vnickels
Now we are talkin' I have a few of these and hope to learn more about them from true "Hands On" folks here. Carry On! I hope to be back with a few examples of mine.:hug:
I have only a few and they're well circulated and have never been photographed. My photo skills rot. I did see the 1913s on exhibit at the FUN show the year they discovered and sold the 5th coin.
I own exactly one "V" nickel and I had to buy it out of a bargain bin at a coin show. Probably a dug one. Not a exactly a show piece but it was only a quarter.
I'm a big fan of Barber coinage so of course I like the "Barber Nickel." Owned many of them in the past, but right now the only one I have is in my 1909 Mint Set:
I'm thinking about maybe doing a low grade set of them. It seems to me that they are very under collected, but that's just what I have noticed. I bought a fairly nice no cents one at a recent show for $9, though it has a carbon spot on liberty's face...
I just have a 1883 no cents V in EF45, no problems either. Suits me fine for my type set. But lately ive thought about getting a W/Cents.
Oops.... I saw old nickels and didn't stop to think which ones were being posted.... I don't own any V's.
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The only one I have. I was fooled because it was "smoked." A dip in acetone revealed the cleaning marks. Not too bad looking, though.
Sparrow, do you happen to have pics before you conserved it with acetone? I think before and after pics would be very useful here.
I've got about 2/3 of them, but there nothing to brag about. Cull- VG. They are kind of fun though...
One thing I notice is that there seem to be more abused V nickels than any other kind of coin! I don't know why that is, but they are so common in such low grades that there is almost nothing left to them. (Most of mine are in that condition) The 1883 no cents is so widely available because at the time, newspapers printed reports that they would be recalled and destroyed, so people saved them. That was not ever the case, but, well, that's the media for you Even I have an 1883 no cents in fairly high grade...they are ubiquitus...lol. Most of mine look more like this 1884 example....or worse...though. It's 100 years older than I am. This 1912 might just be the ugliest coin in my collection. It looks MUCH worse in person! Normally, scans make the coin look worse than it actually is. Not so in this case, it makes it look much, much better. Unfortunatly for me, it has the most detail remaining of any I have with the cents spelled out!
Think it's a proof but in the safety Deposit box,but I'll have to go see one of these days. Found the receipt ,it's a PR-64 bought in 1999 for $250 from a dealer in Penn. called Steinmetz Coins .
