I'd bet a lot it's a fake.
Think it's just a die chip.
If the reverse of the slab has a hologram then it was slabbed in later '88, if not then it was late '87 or the first half of '88. For the money...
If it were not for the scratches on the VF20 coin, it would have graded higher than any of these. As for the OP's coin, I'd call it a 30 but I'm...
I'd say 30 but no higher.
Put me in the AU camp.
I appreciate the kind words, but the number of my posts, the number of anybody's posts, is meaningless. So never make a judgement about anyone...
It would have been pretty easy to just post a link to this article and thus stay within the law. Then the editing by the Moderators would not have...
I believe that the dark toning at the top of the obv and rev both would have stopped the designation.
If they thought it qualified as PL or DMPL then the grade you see now should reflect that. Personally, I don't think that coin qualifies.
Darryl I figured that you sent that coin in as an experiment just based on your title for the thread. I didn't mean to imply anything else.
Actually it's pretty easy. They make them, and sell them every day.
I would start out by buying Lange's book - http://www.buffalonickelinfo.com/books.html
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