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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mountain Man, post: 25680916, member: 94733&quot;]As some of you are aware, I put together sample packets of coins, to hand out to young people I met in public, hoping to get them interested in coin collecting. Well, I buy relatively inexpensive cents, nickels, dimes, and if I run across a deal, even quarters, to package, with a challenge for the person to research and find out as much as they can about them. I even suggest they talk to their teacher about the possibility of getting extra credit for giving a report on their research.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most recently, I ran out of Liberty Head, and Buffalo nickels, so went on a search to obtain more. Boy, those Indian Head cents are outrageous, and the buffalo nickels aren&#039;t as cheap as there were when I started this. Let&#039;s not even mention the Liberty Head nickels.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, in the course of getting a &quot;deal&quot; on 474 Liberty Head nickels, all with readable dates and features, I began going through them. I hadn&#039;t paid any attention to Liberty Head nickels prior to this, but we know how &quot;coin nuts&quot; just can&#039;t ignore a pile of coins that they haven&#039;t personally gone through, so I got involved and did my research. I had no clue that while the Liberty Head nickel was minted from 1883 until 1912 (a few 1913&#039;s known to exist), and they were all minted in Philadelphia. I never knew that all of them, except the 1912 nickel, had no mint marks. This makes the 1912 D, and S minted coins worth more than just a few pennies. I also discovered several other dates that collectors will pay a few dollars for.</p><p><br /></p><p>Prior to this, I had just been giving out the Liberty Head and Buffalo nickels, without paying much attention to them. I discovered that of the pile of coins, I had a large number of seemingly collectible dates, along with 12 1912 D, I had 2 1912 S nickels, and they are in fine, or better, condition. Along with other dates that seem to be worth a few dollars, and then I found this one.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1642236[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1642239[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1642240[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1642241[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1642243[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1642244[/ATTACH] </p><p>At first, I was positive it was a road kill coin. You know, laid in a street or parking lot and was run over hundreds of time, but upon closer look, and then a magnifier, I became more and more convinced, it was more than just a beat up old coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe it to be a totally fractured planchet that for some reason held on through the minting process and then circulation. I couldn&#039;t believe a planchet that bad off, could have survived (and in one piece at that), but other than a coin that someone froze and struck hard to create the effect. I can&#039;t think of how it came to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve taken several of the best photos I&#039;m capable of, and hope they are good enough for some of our experts to give us an opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Study the photos and let me know your honest opinion. Even with my vision issues and poor eye sight, I don&#039;t think I&#039;m &quot;seeing things.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I will happily send the coin to any of our specialist, to review in hand. Just let me know.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=86437]@Fred Weinberg[/USER] </p><p>Ed Padilla&nbsp; [USER=44615]@paddyman98[/USER] </p><p>Joe Cronin&nbsp; [USER=92083]@JCro57[/USER] </p><p>Others?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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