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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PlanoSteve, post: 25302872, member: 91609&quot;][USER=153231]@Kristina Greene[/USER], first of all, welcome to CT!</p><p><br /></p><p>Based on your pics, I&#039;m with you on the possibility of grease filled, but other than that, it looks to me to be a normal strike (note the one time sharpness of Tom&#039;s hair &amp; Monticello), albeit, this coin seems to have excessive experience versus a similar nickel of only 22 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am also in agreement that this specimen spent at least some time in a dryer.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for how &quot;potentially valuable&quot; it is, it&#039;s still worth 5 cents.&nbsp; In order for you to receive a premium for this coin, you would have to find an inexperienced &quot;collector/accumulator&quot; who would actually think this coin is special. </p><p><br /></p><p>As you continue your journey with coin collecting, you will see how common the features on your coin are, and the more you see, the easier it becomes to distinguish real anomalies, varieties &amp; errors.</p><p><br /></p><p>It helps to have better pictures, as well as coin weights in the event of planchet issues, but all that will come in time.&nbsp; Continue to post &amp; monitor this site &amp; look at as many coins as possible to develop your expertise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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