VERY RARE NICKEL ERROR?

exactly, an im betting its not 5g

 

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Better than a grading service cause he got the info for free.

 

Sorry, but yeah, someone made it that way.

 

Vonnieagles, there is a large learning curve for errors and varieties. All of us sometimes run into a coin that we are unsure of. The best thing is not to send it off helter skelter to a TPG,~ label it in a 2x2 or such and set it aside. Then learn about the minting process and how things can occur, and then a ways down the path, pick up those ????coins and you will be surprised how much better you can appraise them. Don't be discouraged that it isn't getting many yeas now, but you will still have it in case you then think you are still right. Best wishes.Jim

 

$96 for error @ pcgs

 

While errors are not my thing, is it possible that it is a split planchet error?

 

Yeah, that's the way to go! Give the guy more false hope that he's hit the jackpot.

 

Nope!

 

A split after strike is the only thing that would come close to looking like what the OP has, BUT on a split after strike you typically will see a ghost image of the missing side (and often ghosts of both sides). This is because the deforming of the metal during the strike causes the design to actually be present through the thickness of the coin. The OP image isn't the best but I'm not seeing what I would expect to see on a split after strike error.

 

Thanks for the intelligent reply! A post strike splitting is what I was considering, agreed there is usually a ghost image, but with the quality of the pictures I don't feel it can be completely ruled out.

 

Really? the reverse?