Definitely a keeper, also a reference coin to help further your collection.
An 8$ slab premium for each? @jtlee321 Gotta love it. :D
I here ya on the tough to photo. The planchets were very rough through the 80's This combined with a very lustrous high grade coin is hard to...
There have been 5 reverse designs since the start of the Jefferson Nickels. 38' to 2004 The last is the reverse of 82'. In 87' the mint began a...
I really don't consider a plating issue or a die crack to be an error. They are more a problem with a deteriorating die, than anything else.
I will check my red book, if my memory is correct. It is easier to find 6 step nickels from 90 on than it is to find one with 5 steps. You may be...
What would make a plating issue valuable? Die cracks are cool and tell the story of a dies life, but what makes you think that they should hold a...
The change seemed to start in the early 90's. I'd imagine that it was around the same time the mint changed the hubbing process.
I see it as an AU 50
Most of these nickels are FS, the ones that you are looking for are the ones without bag marks.
Heating the coins in my opinion is not the way to go.
It's a large date, no to an RPM, and the die cracks just mean that it was a stressed die. Many lincolns, have die cracks.
Take your time and cut it long wise. Same direction as the reeding.
Is it raised, on the coin? If so then a die crack. If it is ressesed then it is probably a scratch, NGC is pretty tough on nickels, I doubt that...
AU 55
Those are some pretty cool die markers from the C and through the center of the O.
Just to let y'all know. I have made it through the water loss ( mistake I made.) And finally I am gonna be able to buy again.. But, I think that...
These dies and planchets were specially prepared . It is hard to imagine that an early business strike die had the capability of producing a full...
I missed the first thread, and am very glad you made this thread. My belief is that if you spend to much time in quandary over one single coin....
I got to agree with you. 65 is a tough one to grade, @jd26 yours is one of the best I have seen, It's a pretty coin too!
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