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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 2526867, member: 19250&quot;]Hi Parker first&nbsp; welcome&nbsp; to&nbsp; the forum .&nbsp; The 1865 was the first year the nickel three cent piece&nbsp; was minted. They were a high mintage&nbsp; post Civil&nbsp; war&nbsp; era ,where coinage&nbsp; was needed in the population&nbsp; hands.</p><p>Looking&nbsp; at your specimen&nbsp; I see clashes ,possible&nbsp; strike through , or damage that to my eyes looks to be from the mint.</p><p>My take and I will wait to see what others may post is this is a very late state coin . There are several things I see that makes me believe&nbsp; that. One is the clashed dies , you can see the Roman&nbsp; numeral&nbsp; base under Liberty&#039;s&nbsp; chin&nbsp;&nbsp; and also behind her head. Next is broken letters&quot; the D &quot; in United. There&#039;s&nbsp; also Longacre&nbsp; doubling&nbsp; on more of the letters on the obv.</p><p>The face of Liberty&nbsp; I believe&nbsp; to be one of two things a strike through&nbsp; or ejection&nbsp; damage. To be honest&nbsp; I&nbsp; am&nbsp; not&nbsp; sure.</p><p>You coin doesn&#039;t&nbsp; looked cleaned ,hare to tell with your images ,but looks like there&#039;s&nbsp; plenty&nbsp; of&nbsp; luster ,and no hair lines to my eyes.</p><p>Your coin on&nbsp; the rev.&nbsp; The wreath&nbsp; looks well struck,yet there&#039;s&nbsp; no details on the lll Roman&nbsp; numerals that should show vertical&nbsp; lines top to bottom&nbsp; only seen on the last digit.</p><p>I believe&nbsp; that this die was at the end of its&nbsp; life. From all that&#039;s&nbsp; going on ,each side.</p><p>I like it as it&nbsp; skin looks natural&nbsp; to me. The scrape on her face looks like it was done during&nbsp; the minting, others may say post mint damage.</p><p>What makes me think that is there&#039;s&nbsp; orange peel on the skin in places, die cracks, die clashes, and that scrape .</p><p>So&nbsp; to sum up my thoughts&nbsp; a die that banged out&nbsp; a lot of coins just before it was ready to explode . However&nbsp; a nice extremely&nbsp; late die state coin, in Au or better shape with tons of stuff going on!</p><p>I like it a lot..... this series&nbsp; is most often&nbsp; over looked by collectors ,except&nbsp; for&nbsp; their type set. But you can enjoy collecting&nbsp; these as there not a lot of competition. So variety&nbsp; coins can be found at reasonable&nbsp; prices.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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