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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;howards, post: 2506521, member: 299&quot;]This coin seems to have generated some confusion.&nbsp; Here&#039;s what it is:</p><p><br /></p><p>1868 obverse A with reverse of &#039;67 (IIa) - the common pairing.</p><p><br /></p><p>The spikes off the reverse stars are not tool marks, and they are not PMD.&nbsp; They are die fatigue spikes.&nbsp; These fatigue spikes occur along the edges of devices on shield nickels.&nbsp; Apparently where the the device meets the field is a weaker point in the die, and you get small splits in the die as a result.&nbsp; Die fatigue spikes are extremely common on shield nickels.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin shows an MPD (misplaced date) flag of a 1 at the top left of the ball.&nbsp; This variety attributes as S1-4000 (SNV) and MPD-002 (Flynn).&nbsp; MPDs are (at least to me) a very interesting part of shield nickel variety collecting.&nbsp; This coin is quite desirable to a shield nickel variety collector.</p><p><br /></p><p>I own one example of this variety.&nbsp; It&#039;s paired with the same reverse, showing the same die fatigue spikes.&nbsp; (Sometimes you find different die pairings on varieties, but not here.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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