Nickels are not clad. (They are a uniform 75% copper & 25% nickel throughout.) Your nickel has environmental damage, possibly from being buried...
It gets worse.
Looks like environmental damage (toning) to me. The coin could have been buried in the ground for a time. (Lots of dug clad coins look like...
And the correction is incorrect. The note is a Federal Reserve Note, not a Gold Certificate.
I disagree. That is a plain old cud. A retained cud (struck by a broken die where the broken piece has not completely fallen away) will have very...
That is a VERY nice cud. Congrats!
I have heard that some ancients may have used water to magnify objects (e.g., coin dies while engraving them). (This would be similar to the...
There is really no need to get a better image. We can see the damage quite clearly.
It's nothing more than just another damaged coin. Sorry.
The Mint used to use a Janvier Reduction Lathe to make a master hub from the galvano. Is that what you were asking?
It is a damaged coin. No idea how it happened.
The edge is not on the obverse or the reverse. It is on the edge. (The third side of the coin.) If there is reeding on the edge it was struck in...
Is there reeding on the edge or is it smooth (or some of each)?
You may have something there, possibly a double-strike (the obverse appears to have been struck twice - not sure about the reverse due to blurry...
I will represent Georgia.
So what do you want? Do you want us to tell you that you found an incredibly rare and valuable error when you did not? I will try to remember not...
You are mixing things up. You are correct that bronze wheat cents are made of an alloy that is 95% copper and 5% tin and zinc. What you seem to...
It is not a cud; it is a small die chip. (A cud is a die break that includes the rim and extends into the field.) Your coin with a small die...
The promoter apparently never heard the adage: It is easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
Dr. James Wiles book is excellent. The modern minting process and U.S. minting errors and varieties (ANA correspondence course) This book has...
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