Off-center nickel

I picked up this extremely off-center nickel recently. For those more knowledgeable with this type of error than I am, what's going on on the reverse? I would have expected the reverse die to have made contact, but clearly it did not.

 

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What occurred was that the Obverse Die struck the now Obverse side to show IN GOD and the Reverse side was sitting on top of another Blank Planchet so the Reverse Die left no image. Hence the slight spreading of the metal due to it being force on the other Planchet.

It is now an Off-Center Uniface Strike

Quote "It shows an unusual degree of expansion, due either to elevated ram pressure or an unusually small minimum die clearance. The slide zone in this “stretch strike” is correspondingly wide." closed quote

 

Here are examples from my collection -

 

Very interesting. Thanks. That makes sense.

 

Nice examples. Is this type of error rare enough to warrant slabbing my example, or does more of the design or date need to be showing?

 

If it were mine I'd have it slabbed just because. Not sure if it's worth it but I'd do it to get proper documentation.

 

It will cost you considerably more to have it slabbed than the coin is worth