The flat marginal shelving indicates this is machine doubling (push doubling subtype).
There's a remote chance he will luck out with his submission. I've seen some surprisingly crude counterfeits and alterations in PCGS and NGC...
I see no indication that this coin was struck out-of-collar. In other words, this is an alteration of a normal coin rather than an "enhanced error".
If this is nickel scrap then it's still not much of an error. This scrap or "chopped webbing" is sent out to be recycled. There is little or no...
The reverse face was struck by a counterfeit die of relatively soft metal. The soft, blended overlap between primary and secondary elements is...
I'd call it freestanding interior die break. Nice find.
Doubtful, but possible. Blind-ended die cracks are rather common and they never seem to lead to anything more serious. The 2001-P dime shows a...
It's a blind-ended, bi-level die crack.
Die deterioration compounded by wear. Also a very minor misalignment.
When I see a coin like that, I get sprung (apologies to Sir Mix-A-Lot).
I think this is the same coin.
Yeah, that's the one I was thinking of.
There's at least one other 1964 nickel with a struck-in spring, which makes me suspect there was human assistance.
Paddyman98 is quite correct in his diagnosis. You've got a "disc clip" and associated disruption of reeding from the Blakesley effect at the...
Ring-shaped recesses located just inside the design rim and caused by compacted die fill ("grease") are fairly common in other denominations, like...
The subequal strength of the rings would remove that diagnostic from consideration. So in this case, you rely on two other diagnostics. One is...
I see no evidence of a crack, either in the die or the planchet. Grease can settle around the outside in the form of a ring because there is a...
An account of the first domestic case of design creep (a run of 2014-P nickels) can be read in this week's Coin World (April 20, 2015).
The ring located just inside the design rim appears sunken. In some areas the internal margin is sharply defined, with a sightly irregular...
Echoing Coop's opinion, the affected portion of the coin was crushed outside the Mint.
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