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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jamboree, post: 670580, member: 20217&quot;]<b>Bizarre 1946 Nickel with &quot;1946&quot; date overstamped -- with backwards 4! (Now w/ pic)</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I just found in my change one of the strangest nickels i&#039;ve ever seen. I&#039;m not sure if it is a minting error, some kind of experimental issue, or just a unique item created by some random prankster long long ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the description:</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a normal 1946 (Philadelphia) standard Jefferson nickel in fair/good condition (i.e. heavily worn down with normal wear and tear) that has one freakish attribute: over the 1946 date, someone has re-stamped the numbers &quot;1946&quot; incuse-style, very precisely done, except for a very strange glitch: the &quot;4&quot; is backwards!</p><p><br /></p><p>You can still see remnants of the original 1946 date beneath the overstamping, which makes even less sense, since why re-stamp the same date over the old date?</p><p><br /></p><p>In every other respect, the nickel looks completely normal -- there is no flaw in the leg of the &quot;R&quot; in &quot;Pluribus,&quot; so it is not a Henning counterfeit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is this a known error? Anyone ever seen anything like it before? Anyone know what its origins might be? I suspect it was just some guy experimenting with a die-stamp at home back in the &#039;40s, but still can&#039;t figure out why the &quot;4&quot; is backwards.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it helps, I can try to take a picture of it and post that. Thanks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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