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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2316231, member: 12789&quot;]Ahhh, now you are really treading into my territory.&nbsp; One thing I notice particularly with the 1938 coins is that they had more of a concave design that better protected the design elements in the center of the coin.&nbsp; In 1939, probably due to the difficulty of striking the &#039;38 coins the relief was lowered very slightly and they stuck with that procedure for all the nickels until ca. 1971-2, the exceptions being some that were minted in the San Francisco mint up until 1970.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then reliefs started getting lowered, they toyed with the design a bit in the 1980s, but in 1987 curiously they went back to the concave design that was present on the 1938 coins, but that again was shortlived and only some of the 1988 coins have that.&nbsp; Then again back to gradually lowering reliefs through the 1990s and early 2000s.&nbsp; Then with the change of design following the Lewis and Clark commemoratives they made Jefferson a low relief comic and his home in Monticello an easy to wear off in a few years visage of its former self.</p><p><br /></p><p>Frankly the mint knows that the coins they are cranking out now will not be soldiering on like their late 1930s and early 1940s coins that are holding up remarkably well for having circulated over 70+ years.&nbsp; One the value of the nickel and copper in the coin is high enough that it is not economical to strike them.&nbsp; Then the nickel is a shell of it&#039;s former self in terms of spending.&nbsp; The nickel of 1939 bought about what a half dollar buys today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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