2000-d nickel 4.15G gold tone?

I can’t find anything to explain why the nickel is so under weight.

 

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Because you are using a Snoop Dog gram scale.

 

That scale has seen some stuff man.

 

You would think that scale to be... RIGHT ON MAN.
Maybe only the original Snoop Doggy Dang Dog Ding scale was accurate. ?

Seriously though, OP check your scale with other nickels to compare.

 

Other than triple checking your scale, you have an environmental damaged nickel. BTW, welcome to CT.

 

If the scale is accurate, then you have a rolled thin planchet error. Suprisingly strong strike for a coin close to 20% off light and nearly .6 grams out of the tolerance range.

 

Trust me scale is accurate and coin has full steps. The patina is unusual golden color and I can’t find anything to explain it.

 

Can you explain how you've determined your scale is accurate?

 

I have calibration weights and used my friends thousandth scale it’s exactly 4.15g

 

I recommend weighing a brand new nickel on your scale. Should weigh exactly 5.00g.

 

I did that too, forget that scale and just believe it’s 4.15g exactly and has full steps no damage and gold patina....I wouldn’t ask if it was obviously something else

 

Thanks. Always better to have the explanation than a "trust me"

 

I think the scale is OK, if for example you use the center of it,
and weigh other nickels as a control, and they all come out at 5.00.
If that is the case, then your nickel has either been dropped in acid,
was minted on a thinly rolled planchet, or the wrong stock. (Or something else.) I take foreign planchet out of the equation as your nickel appears to have fully formed nickel rims.

 

Most likely on an underweight planchet, not terribly unusual.

 

Or at least somewhere between 4.8 and 5.2 grams.

 

I’m a avid collector trust me I know my EDITED. Also curious about these all have full bands. Just the 4 on some of them looks very strange.

Watch the language Please

 

I can not tell you how hard I was laughing when I read this comment, and then when I saw the scale.

 

How do you figure you have full stairs on the Jefferson? They appear smashed at both ends. Just seeing them at one place or another is not FS. Also the weights are specified as per uncirculated coins, not circulated. Jim

 

The nickel is perfect stamped has not been dipped in acid. Many nickels have gold Patinas. I weigh every coin and it’s exactly 4.15G so is it even worth getting it graded?