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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RobertW, post: 2055058, member: 71912&quot;]The most beautiful coin yet to land in my palm came today. Five cents change from a vending machine soda. Still my belief hesitates. A 54 S Jefferson nickel, with 99.9% of its original luster; lightly golden tinted. Only a couple of minute whisker scratches are visible to the naked eye, and considerably few even with 20x magnification. It would still be breathtaking a find if there were nothing more of interest to speak of it.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; You won&#039;t hear me deny any absence of experience. At best you</p><p>may call me a part time enthusiast. My fondest wish now is only that the photographically challenged flip phone in my pocket could take a picture for you.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At first the only strange quality to take notice were two raised areas within the hooks of the S mintmark, one each. After studying my books it appeared maybe just a later die variety of the S over D, or perhaps a repunched S. As if that weren&#039;t interesting enough, closer examination revealed to my novice eye evidence of what appears to be some very nice hubbing, most obviously on the S and T in TRUST. The end of the left extension in T appears three-pronged, although the top right end of the S only appears doubled. Also, numerous letters are touching on both obverse and reverse sides; much like tripling and quadrupling occurring in subsequent years. Such as the: upper portions of the letters UNI in UNITED, upper portions of UM in UNUM, upper portions of IN but especially their bottoms, the bottom portions of RIB in PLURIBUS (particularly the IB,) as well as the bottom portions of RI in AMERICA. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Also appearing worthy of note is the way the letters in LIBERTY are thinner in their upper portions and gradually becoming nearly twice as thick at their bottoms. All other letters on the obverse side are as thick as those in LIBERTY at their bottoms. There also appears to be some difficult to notice separation in all letters in LIBERTY. The Os in MONTICELLO are also very wide, especially the last. There are also a number of small burrs, tails and protrusions throughout both sides of the coin. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; My experience may be limited, but none of the peculiarities resemble the sort of sloppy deteriorated die doubling to be found quite readily on many coins. These distinctions seem quite clear to me, but in lieu of any professional experience, the limits of mine may be lacking and perhaps over zealous. Has anyone heard of or seen anything similar to what&#039;s been described? Any insightful thoughts you may care to share would be very much appreciated. Thank you -Robert[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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