Wow! Put that feather in your hat and enjoy the accolades.
The holes/gouges don't line up, so it was impacted twice. The round one looks like a .22
I'd heard that, since many didn't have pockets, the holes were to string them together so they didn't get lost ... and then hang them on a...
These 'hoboists" are really getting out of hand.
The AI attempts kinda reminds me that they don't have their s**t together.
A woody is the streaking of the planchet from improper mix so that it resembles wood grain, kinda.
Yep, it's a woody, as we call them up here.
It looks like it took a trip through a snowblower. Keep it as an odity.
Too much wear for a 35-40. The Obverse worn much more than your thought and don't think that it would make 20, but if you like it, no problem....
Yep, it spent some time on a gravel road.
I got to May 11, 2025.
I thought that there might have been acid or some other nasty involved and a pliers or something holding it.
Even if turns out to be a real coin, it is no where near XF. It would be lucky to get an F-15.
The "back-up" was always in my grandfathers house/farm in the outhouse as well, Sears but sometimes Monkey Wards. They didn't get indoor plumbing...
The Indian's chin? Look at the overlay above.
OK, here's another try to post a pic of early Sears 1900's library table, in Arts and Crafts oak, that I use as my coin desk:
My comments here apply to the ORIGINAL poster with a nickel that has a die crack on the Obverse, not about the lamination nickel. Die cracks...
[IMG] Sears made the best, strongest, longest-lasting hand tools. When they closed and someone else took up the Craftsman brand, things went...
Both Bob sap and Heavymetal have separate photos/items in the thread. The first nickel is a die crack. The large photo is a lamination. Please...
It's a die crack and not scarce, but keep it a a nice anomaly
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