Radar Nickel Found!

Isn't a radar number one that goes from one to another and then back to the same in the beginning?

 

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12344321 is a radar. So is 101.

 

They read the same from both ends.

 

Essentially a palindrome using numbers. "Able was I ere I saw Elba" - Napoleon.

 

Very nice but what does that coin have to do with a radar? Am I missing something?

 

Check the cert#.

 

For any who are unsure what's up with this thread...

A radar sends out a signal. If that signal hits an object it bounces (pings) back the same signal to the sending location. This is the basis for how the word "radar" has come to be used to describe a series of numbers (usually re: currency serial numbers) which are the same frontwards and backwards.

To explain better here is a quote from the below web page:
"Radar Notes have palindromic serial numbers – that means they read the same forward and backward. An example of this is a serial number that reads “02344320” or “24244242.”"

https://www.pcgs.com/news/what-are-radar-notes#:~:text=Radar Notes have palindromic serial,, www.HA.com.

Good question! I was also scratching my head about that. It's not specifically the coin itself, but rather the PCGS certificate number assigned to the coin, which is: 38966983



EDIT: @KBBPLL beat me to answering the question.

 

I apologize. I should have just pointed out the cert number. I mistakenly thought this would be a good thread to post it.

 

Heck, that cert number is almost a flipper, too, if not for the backward 3's...

 

It was! Some of us (raising my hand here) just needed a little nudge to figure it out...

 

I never looked at the number, just the coin.

 

It is! I just didn’t notice it. I was looking at the coin. Lol

 

Even the word radar is a RADAR.