Well I haven't been logged in lately. I been going through some coins again. I found this one side aside not sure why. Or sure how I got it. And don't know much about them. Also I wanted to test how well my pic's come out that I post. I have some goofy penny's to post soon as well. Any comments? Ty Charles.
Its an 1883 v nickel plated gold. Its plated gold because back in those times, people would plate 1883 "no cents" nickels and pass them off as $5 coins in dim light places such as bars and get back $4+ in change which at the time was a lot of money. Plating is most likely recent and was probably broken out of a cardboard display explaining the history of gold plated 1883 "no cents" nickels
Wow Ok, Thank you for your reply. Very Interesting history. Some things never change. Kinda people washing a 5 and reprinting a $20. So this must of come from some history display some where. I didn't even know they could do gold plating back then. I suspect I'ts not real. I took a closer look and noticed 4 notches on the rim. like north south east west. Either way cool looking and very bright. prolly not worth to much even if it was real gold plated. I did look at a few on line. Not plated. I noticed the I in liberty stood out to me. Looks faint. ? Anyway also I don't know if you know much about penny coin error's or not. I have a few interesting ones. I am gonna post on the coin error forum. while I am at it. Thx again. Charles
While it is true that this is a nickel plated with an extremely thin layer of gold, it was almost certainly done in recent years (1950-onward) to sell to collectors as a novelty based upon the story of the original 1883 V nickels that were gold plated.
I've seen the racketeer nickels that had the edges reeded before plating to make them look more authentic as well.