1961-D Nickel Obliterated

PMD? Error? What would caused this?

 

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Got stuck on a tire for a few miles?

 

Ferric chloride was used to etch nickels to reduce the fields make the lettering slightly more raised to be able to tell mint mark. but if it was FC, this one soaked in it for a long period of time. Perhaps the person left it for summer vacation. Jim

 

To me, this one doesn't look like acid damage -- it looks like it was partially melted. Can you weigh it? What does the edge look like?

 

4.54 g, the edges look normal; nothing out of the ordinary

 

Regardless if it was acid or something else, your coin couldn't have left the mint in that cindition, so it's not an error.

 

Okay, that is low. Maybe Jim's right about the acid damage. (Or maybe both!)

 

maybe a burn barrel then cleaned up? looks like high heat did damage, maybe even a commercial furnace.

 

A Mack truck hit and run left in the desert to die, such a loss I'm sad. Good luck.

 

It's about .5 g light.
I'd say acid soaked.

 

Whatever caused this I wasn’t there but I can say it’s damaged as it didn’t leave the mint looking like that.

 

Corrosive environmental damage

 

I vote heat damage, like @Southernman189 said.