24-----A contest for Jefferson Nickel Lovers

This contest has a very simple premise. I will post a photograph of a coin. The first person to tell me what is wrong with the photo within 24 hours wins the prize. I will drop hints from time to time during the thread. This contest had a pre-registration process. The only members eligible to guess in this contest must be registered in thread linked below.

Contest Registration

The Photograph (What is wrong with it--Be Specific!)



The Prizes (Winner Chose One)

Jefferson Nickel 1949-D NGC MS66 Toned


Jefferson Nickel 1939 Doubled Monticello VF Raw (Scratched)



Jefferson Nickel 1944-S PCGS MS66 Rainbow Toned



Good Luck guys and may the biggest Jefferson Lover win!

 

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do we guess on here or send a pm?

 

All guesses must be posted within the thread. Please be specific. If you give a general answer, I will be forced to ask you to be more specific, which might allow another contestant to submit the correct answer first.

For example. If you think the coin is a VAM, you should tell me what VAM it is! Don't just say the coin is a VAM.

 

The image of this coin has been retouched (Photoshop-ed) to clean up marks, notably the big hit on the cheek of Miss Liberty on the obverse. Perhaps also some marks on the field behind Liberty's neck have been cleaned up along with (possibly) some marks (whether on the field or on the holder) in front of her forehead in the area within the dark tone, where we see white-ish marks. The reverse does not appear messed with to me. The same coin can be found on your Collector's society gallery and the marks I have noted are are evident there.

 

winner!



Select your prize please Sir!

 

Damnnnnn! Awesome!

 

i never would have thought of that. congrats krispy!!

 

I did not even get a chance to read the whole thing.

Congratulations krispy. You must have been right on time.

 

Congrats Krispy! Thanks for the contest Lehigh.

 

I am going to do a round two after Krispy selects his prize to give the other prize away. This time I will announce the start time ahead of time so that everyone knows when it will start. I didn't expect anyone to find that coin in my signature set that quickly.

 

I was gonna say that!

I was gonna say that!:kewl:

Congrats Krispy but I was distracted by the wife telling me new garden fence was not squared up enough!!!!

 

I LOVE JEFFERSON NICKELS! :bow: and I would love to have the Wartime Jefferson with all that great color! The 1944-S in the PCGS holder. I will be able to add this to my own growing PCGS Registry, plus I love San Francisco minted coins and silver wartime nickles.

Incidentally, the 49-D is beautiful too!

Thank you very much for the contest Paul!

PM to follow!



BTW: Here's my PCGS Silver Ike SF themed Showcase (no pics yet)

 

Congratulations Krispy!

To the rest of the contestants, round 2 will start at 9PM EST in a new thread. There will be a new prize added to replace the 1944-S that Krispy won.

 

Way to go, Krispy And I have a question for everyone. Please take a hard look at how the Earlobe is. I have Many Silver Dollars but that looks different.

 

its just a contact mark

 

Thanks for the answer but could you explain " Contact Mark ".

 

Krispy, how did you know the answer?

 

Seems to me he looked into Lehigh's registry at NGC, that would have been the first thing I would have done. (If I didn't get to the contest so late)

 

Get a life!!

 

I looked at the coin and thought what could be wrong? Paul has such amazing TPG graded coins and shares so much about coins, grading, discusses imaging of coins, comments on sellers who 'juice' their coins, etc, then I thought, Hey! Paul has an open registry, maybe the coin is there, which might lend some insight. I Googled the cert number, went to his registry set, zoomed into the photo of the Morgan and immediately saw that there was a hit on the cheek that was missing in the contest coin pictured. At that point I knew he'd 'doctored' the image of the coin and so I looked for as many differences as I could find and typed my answer as fast as my fingers could fly because I figured you brilliant CoinTalk folk would soon figure it out too and beat me to the answer.