Not a pattern, a pattern is a test strike of a certain design, kind of material, etc. The photos are a little blurry but it looks like the "E"...
Still MS, meaning brand new never circulated. SMS just means it was from a Special Mint Set released by the mint from 1965-1967. Your coin looks...
The "Z" in "Diez" gives it away the most that it is Doubled Die. Notice the split serif, you won't get that with MD.
If I had a dollar for each pixel in the first photo I would have one dollar. Please take better photos :) Probably not your fault with photos...
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Any photos, I kind of want to see how that coin looks
Yikes! Now that is one problem coin! At least it is not cleaned
SMS MS-66 Not worth it IMHO,
Funny that anyone would send that for grading, did it at least have good details?
Nice toner, Looks like it deserves a star to me! My guess is 66 not 65 too
That to me looks like a spender. I never kept a four zero $1 and would not keep this.
Plating Doubling
You may lose details doing it or make the coin worse than when you started with some methods. I recommend just using a wet Q-Tip with dish soap to...
I would say F-15 on this one, a little more detail than F-12.
1939 is a metal detector find (as said by frank), someone cleaned the dirt off of it so it was left with that red color (Almost all dug nickels...
It looks like common plating doubling, not doubled die.
Looks to me like someone dug that one metal detecting, I have found a couple V-Nickels metal detecting and they look like this.
I will try to sometime. Any ideas what's up with the obverse?
I will try to get some in, just curious, what's the bump
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