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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kentucky, post: 4160234, member: 33176&quot;]Hey, welcome to CoinTalk.&nbsp; People usually only get snippy here when they try to give advice and it is rejected as though the person asking already knows what they want to hear and won&#039;t listen.&nbsp; The V nickel series started in 1883 following the USA&#039;s first nickel, the Shield Nickel.&nbsp; The first year of issue, they forgot to put the designation &quot;cents&quot; on the reverse.&nbsp; Part-way through the year, they noticed the mistake and corrected it by adding &quot;cents&quot; on the reverse.&nbsp; The legend built up that these early nickels were gold-plated and passed off as the new $5 gold piece.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure that story was true, you can google it.&nbsp; However, since the story was out there, many 1883 no-cent nickels have been gold-plated and passed off as &quot;racketeer&quot; nickels.&nbsp; That&#039;s the story, but apparently some people have been gold plating random V nickels with the hope of selling them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that that has been said, what can you do with your nickel?&nbsp; Your nickel is a 1909 coin that has been plated, when or where there is no way to tell.&nbsp; Once a coin is damaged, there really isn&#039;t any way to restore it.&nbsp; Sorry, but it is what it is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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