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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;borgovan, post: 509965, member: 13016&quot;]A new member of my coin club brought in a very strange Jefferson nickel. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I didn&#039;t post this coin in the error section, because I&#039;m not sure it&#039;s an error. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Take a look at these pictures. The obverse is not normal, but the reverse is downright weird. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i43.tinypic.com/dwudjb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i42.tinypic.com/1znu3qu.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My main area of concern is around 12 o&#039;clock on the reverse. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what is going on here. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I am 99% certain that whatever happened to this coin happened to a fully-struck nickel. The &quot;E PLURIBUS UNUM&quot; is half missing on the reverse, but in-hand, one can tell that the letters were once there, but were smashed down afterwards, as they appear ghost-like on the flattened-out part of the rim.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The really strange part is the raised letters that appear. They are raised, not incuse, and they appear to have been struck. I&#039;ve examined this piece in-hand a number of times, and with my trusty 10x loupe, I&#039;m nearly certain that they were struck this way. Part of the problem is that I cannot tell what the text says.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This coin is very bothersome to me. The raised letters are in a different size, different font, and given the scarce portions available, I cannot even tell what letters they are. I&#039;ve looked at them at 90 degrees, 180 degrees, and every other which way you can imagine, but I can&#039;t make out what they&#039;re trying to spell.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I have very accurate electronic scales and calipers. Upon weighing the coin, it comes out to within a couple of hundredths of a gram of the correct weight. Given its odd shape, it also comes out within a couple of hundredths of a millimeter of the correct diameter. Both of these measurements are within tolerance, so I think it was struck on the proper planchet. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I would love to hear any ideas any of you have. I am absolutely stumped as to what has happened here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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