1972-D five cent misprint major error

I have a 1972 what appears to be Jefferson nickel that was majorly off center no ridges and pushed like a cap I'm trying to get an estimated value on this help???

 

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I'll bet I can make one of those.

 

The only misprint is the label on the 2X2 calling it a misprint.

 

Sorry, but it's not a mint error. It looks like someone put it in a vise or punch after it left the mint.

 

Looks easy.

 

And how do u seem to know without even examining it I believe it to most definitely be an error. Not sure how someone would be able to make the rim not fit or make the ring go around the inner of the coin

 

And best part is I've herd of one other coin like this in my life and it sure wasn't no personal destruction to the coin.

 

When you learn how coins are minted, you, too, will be able to know at a glance.
BTW, coins are struck, not printed. You might want to change your handle.

 

I have to agree this looks after the fact. Compared to the real one there is no wording or lettering on the rim portion vs yours that looks like someone just damaged after the fact.

 

Short answer. Looking at a lot of coins and learning about the minting process over the last 45 years

 

The folks here are hardly ever wrong about errors. 99% of the time it is someone who finds a strange-looking coin and thinks/hopes that they have struck it rich (believe me, I've been there myself).

Here's a YouTube video (and please don't be offended... I am not implying anything about your age... it's just the first one I found) giving a simplified step-by-step explanation of how coins are minted.



Go read up on how coins are struck then come back here and tell us during which stage you think this could have happened at the Mint and how.

 

Coins are not misprinted, and anything damaged intentionally like that after it leaves the mint is not an error.

 

Oh course, Misprint, you can spend the money and send it in and have it authenticated if you still believe it to be genuine.

 

It's a damaged coin, and the OP is
probably confusing it with a Die Cap.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news on it,
but as others have already said, it's altered.

It did NOT leave the US Mint like that, I can
assure you.

 

Post mint damage.

Unless I can specify what and where during the minting process, something went wrong, I don't call my coin an error.

 

Didn't know people were so stuck up here I'll report this page and never use it again thanks tho. Bunch of arrogant

 

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Ahahaha sweet. You have people who are experts, Fred Weinberg, dealers David Setree who are giving you an honest and free opinion, and you are acting like a baby.

 

"never use it again" - thanks for the favor to all of us here.

I find it amazing, reading over all of the responses to the OP's
first post, that there were no rude or 'stuck up' replies to the
coin posted. Each reply/post was based on what the coin actually
was, not what the owner wanted it to be.

Because he has no knowledge of the minting process, he simply
doesn't understand what he has, how it was made after it left the
mint, and has no understanding of what a half-dozen folks on here
were trying to tell him.

People like that must be miserable and very unhappy with their life.

 

Come on guys! He's only 21. He's supposed to be stupid and foul-mouthed.

Chris

 

I wish he would walk up to me at a coin show
and show me the coin, listen to my reply, and
then make that last statement that he did.

He'd receive a verbal dose of reality.

What a sad person to be, so young and ignorant.