Nickel Question

I've found a Jefferson nickel and don't know what to make of it. The whole obverse seems to be wavy, like the background of the American Buffalo Proof coin. The lettering is weak, especially the word Trust, and there appears to be a ridge or furrow from Jefferson's forehead to his brow. The reverse is fine. Cannot upload photos, too large.

 

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This could be from a few different things so I'll wait to give my thoughts till I see some photos.

Speedy

 

It's very easy to resize pics if you use MS paint.

After opening MS paint from your accessories menu, select 'file' in the upper left corner.

Then select 'open' and select the picture you want to resize.

Once the picture is there, select 'image' on the top of the screen, and select 'strech/skew...' from the drop down list.

Erase the current sizes (they will be 100) and replace each one with 50, which will cut the size of the picture in half and will not distort the image. If it is still to big, go to 'strech/skew' again and resize it once more to 50 or 75 (if you want to make it 25% smaller instead of 50%).

If you don't have MS paint, then I'm sorry, but I don't know how to do that on any other programs.

 

Photos

I was able to resize the photos using Photoshop. Here they are.

 

Looks like struck through capped die or through grease. Nice catch.

 

I would like to see a photo of the Rev....

Speedy

 

It shows up on my computer.

 

Now I can see it---my internet was running slow and that photo never loaded.

While a capped die was what I was thinking too, I thought in most cases the Rev. had a much stronger strike?

Speedy

 

It looks like it is struck through a VERY late stage die cap. The cap has been pounded so many times that it has thined out to the thickness of a metal foil. It is enough to cause the distortions on the obv (but so thin that it lets all the details show through.) but so thin that it doesn't provide a noticable extra thickness and the rev does not show any extra sharpness in the strike.

 

Another nickel

You guys are really good! If it's not asking too much, here's another nickel, could be post mint damage. Thanks for your help.

 

I would say that this last coin is a spoon job. In other words...damaged.

Speedy

 

The first nickel was a GREAT find! Really cool.

The second one looks like it was run over, though.

 

The second one has just had the heck beaten out of it. It's just damaged.

 

yeah, that second nickel looks like a parking lot find.

 

Thanks folks. I'll see if I can spend the second nickel and get my 5 cents worth.

 

The first one is very interesting. Mike Diamond should be along soon with an answer.
the second: A truck job. (Run over by a truck).