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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NPCoin, post: 4723300, member: 5629&quot;]I am glad to see your enthusiasm in sharing your find.&nbsp; It is quite a rare occurrence to come across a valuable specimen &quot;hiding in plain sight&quot;.&nbsp; I personally have come across a rather worn 1912-* Liberty nickel that I have been tossing around in the mind whether it be a <b>D</b> or an <b>S</b>.&nbsp; I&#039;ll probably throw it out to the forum at some point myself simply for honest non-biased opinions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Authentication may not be the easiest area of numismatics, but it is prerequisite to even determining a proper grade (and thus market value).&nbsp; There are many aspects that go hand-in-hand when it comes to authentication.&nbsp; There are a number of considerations to be made such as markers, mint mark styles, mint mark placements, date placement, tooling marks, weights and measures, die stages, die pairs, etc, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, the very first thing that <b>anybody</b> should do in authenticating is make sure that the design variety matches. If the design variety does not fit the coin, then it is 99.9% suspect already.&nbsp; There are those few occasions of transitional varieties.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1909 (for all three mints that produced them) there was a unique obverse design variety that was used.&nbsp; This variety depicted a triangle within a triangle on <i>your</i> right side of the vest.&nbsp; The closure of the vest was also very close to the bottom end of the bust design.&nbsp; in 1910, the vest closure was slightly higher with only one large triangle on the vest.</p><p><br /></p><p>By 1919 (another year with a unique obverse design variety), the vest had been redesigned where there was a trench following from the tie to the bottom end of the bust along <i>your</i> right on the vest.&nbsp; In 1909, the shirt &quot;puffed out&quot; and crossed into the right vest design.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have quickly compiled some pictures for you to consider including the vest area of your own coin.&nbsp; As you will be able to see, the design variety on your specimen is ODV-008 which corresponds to the 1919 design from all mints.&nbsp; Sorry for the low quality, but I&#039;ve other things to do at the moment and these pictures are clear enough to see the differences.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1157231[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1157232[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1157233[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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