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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 24497731, member: 101855&quot;]The trouble with many racketeer nickels is that you never know when they have been gold plated. Was it in 1883 or was it last week?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have posted this several times. It has a nicely reeded edge, which is supposed to be one of the markers for the real thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1552904[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1552905[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a few other candidates. One has very crude edge reeding. It&#039;s not subtle like this one, and the piece is not plated. I have a conventional piece that is plated, but has no reeding. I bought all three of them in a bid wall auction in the same lot for less than $15 many years ago. My coin friends thought I was a fool to buy the lot, but to this piece was &quot;worth the price of admission.&quot; I&#039;ve seen pieces like this only a time or two, and they sold for a heck of lot more money.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before you laugh, this bid wall is where I bought my 1796 Quarter, 1796 dime and my 1793 Chain Cent plus many other coins. All of them are in PCGS or NGC holders with straight grades that range from VF-25 to AU-50. This was not your average bid wall. Coins were sold off of it that have subsequently sold for 6 figures. I knew they were good, but I didn&#039;t have to money to buy them then.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have another piece that was part of bunch of &quot;V nickels&quot; my parents bought for me when I was just getting started as a collector. All of the coins, except this one, were you run of the mill Liberty Nickels in Good. This piece is a VF 1883 No Cents Nickel. It has traces of gold within the letters, especially on the reverse. Is it a former racketeer nickel? Who knows?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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