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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Matthew Kruse, post: 5952528, member: 107431&quot;]Just a little background...</p><p><br /></p><p>Some 1883 nickels didn&#039;t have &quot;CENTS&quot; on the back until people realized that they look like the $5 gold pieces from the time. Some dishonest people would gold plate them and spend them as $5 gold coins and make a huge profit. When the government found out, they obviously had to change it to stop the fraud. That&#039;s why some of the early 1883 nickels don&#039;t have cents on the back and others do. All of the liberty nickels after that have cents on the back. I am sure some other members can expand on this but its just a cool little fact I learned from my Whitman coin book lol.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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