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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PittsburghMom, post: 1389440, member: 34903&quot;]Thanks! It looks like I may need to invest in a Fuld book then. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ah, ha! I think I figured out why my V nickel looks like this. It must be a racketeer nickel. Check out this blurb I found on the web:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.us-coin-values-advisor.com/Liberty-Nickel-key-dates.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.us-coin-values-advisor.com/Liberty-Nickel-key-dates.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.us-coin-values-advisor.com/Liberty-Nickel-key-dates.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<span style="color: #434343"><font face="Verdana">The new Liberty Nickel, also called the &quot;V&quot; Nickel, was released into circulation in February, 1883. </font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #434343"><font face="Verdana">Very soon thereafter, the Mint realized a serious omission on the new &quot;V&quot; nickel design had occurred. No where on the coin did the word &quot;CENTS&quot; appear. This oversight gave swindlers the idea of gold-plating the coins, and passing them off as $5 gold coins! Since the Liberty Nickel was new, many victims were taken in. The word &quot;CENTS&quot; was quickly added to the reverse, creating two major varieties of the Liberty Nickel in 1883. These gold-plated &quot;V&quot; nickels came to be known as &quot;Racketeer Nickels&quot; and carry a slight premium due to their connection to one of the strangest events in American numismatics.&quot;</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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