I've wanted one as a type coin for some time, but it had to have some toning and be priced right. This one has "honey" toning and an obverse central silvery bullseye that looks really nice when rotated in the light. GTG and opinions welcome!
I love how these things tone. Not a half-bad strike in the grand scheme of V Nickels either. I have it at 63 personally, but wouldn't object to 64. If it's not high AU, that is. You can literally never tell what they'll come up with these days.
I'm not good at grading, but I love the detail in the hair and reverse wreath that your has. I have a couple V cents too and I love looking at them - though not as fine as yours !!
OK.........so I guess I was wrong in thinking this was a proof coin? The rims seemed so sharp and squared.
This is only anecdotal, but - to me - nickel seems to strike with great sharpness up to the point where the strike ends (the usually-missing corn ear detail in this case). I think it's a function of just how hard you have to hit nickel to strike it at all, and I therefore don't use the same strike-evaluation rules as I would for a Lincoln Proof, for relevant instance. For a Linc Proof I look closely at the rims. For a Liberty Nickel, I'm more interested in overall quality of strike detail.
Very nice for a 64. I love the golden sort of toning that Liberty nickels seem to get pretty often. This is my favorite, but most of my proofs from the 1890's all have a pretty similar look just not as deep as this one.
Question on the 6....what's going on in the upper loop rpd? As there are 3 RPD's for the 06 Liberty nickel