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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 2052127, member: 19250&quot;]Nice find it&#039;s&nbsp; a RPD 1867 and as stated&nbsp; above&nbsp; due to the alloy&nbsp; and being one of the first nickels&nbsp; produced . </p><p>To address&nbsp; your first&nbsp; question why this was drilled. Well in those days 5 cents&nbsp;&nbsp; was a lot of money. Sailors&nbsp; drilled quite&nbsp;&nbsp; a few coins as one it was not illegal&nbsp; to do so two you would wear around your neck for two reasons. First you slept in tight quarters&nbsp; and wearing&nbsp; your money around your neck was safe as if someone&nbsp;&nbsp; tried to take&nbsp;&nbsp; it you wake&nbsp; up. Second if the ship went down you had your money&nbsp;&nbsp; with you....no time to go get it while&nbsp;&nbsp; the ship was sinking .&nbsp; </p><p>I love shield&nbsp;&nbsp; nickels.... they are relatively&nbsp; cheap, full of misplaced dates ,over dates,repunched dates,missing&nbsp;&nbsp; leaves,clash marks and die cracks. </p><p>There are more varieties&nbsp; still waiting&nbsp; to be discovered&nbsp;&nbsp; in this series then are listed in cherry&nbsp; pickers guide!</p><p>Yes it&#039;s&nbsp;&nbsp; true....plus as stated above a die only lasted 10,000 to 12,000 strikes ....thus more errors and varieties&nbsp;&nbsp; to find as the die wore out.</p><p>At first your&#039;s&nbsp; looked to me a missing leaf but when I looked closer it looks to have a small leaf on the right side</p><p>2 ND from top group. Maybe a die fixed from a missing&nbsp;&nbsp; leaf variety . You have a nice specimen&nbsp; there drilled or not.</p><p>Nice pick up.....two thumbs up <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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