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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 3294411, member: 19250&quot;]Au. Cleaned details. This is a weak strike as this is the beginning of the true nickel. The mint had no pryor experence striking in the nickel/copper alloy. Plus in 1866 the nickel was thicker not by much but enough to cause strike issues in the new alloy.</p><p>Most dies only lasted 10,000 or less strikes, which explaines why so many die cracks,cuds and die failures.</p><p>The op coin maybe a repunched date, however that only could be determine in hand as the hard strike did cause a lot of machine doubling taking a little bounce .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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