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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 8050132, member: 19250&quot;]561,615,000 was the mintage of the 83 P Jefferson nickel. </p><p>When ever you see high mintages of any series you&#039;re going to find lots of errors.</p><p>I posted yesterday about the years of 63 and 64 Jefferson nickels. </p><p>The 64 Jefferson nickel was probably the highest production ever of any series.</p><p>When you&#039;re pumping out coins by the millions ,how many die pairs do you think you go through?</p><p>As you&#039;re striking so many ,trying to get out of each die as many coins as possible. </p><p>Shield nickels the very first nickels, their die had a life expectancy of &lt; 10,000 strikes!</p><p>After that the dies would just about explode.so many hits, in such a hard medal.</p><p>The 83 p is probably another prime example of this....finding a 1964 P or D Jefferson full steps in a 68 grade is slim. </p><p>Nice example of the 83 p with die breaks or cracks....whichever one prefer to call them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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