Hello all hope everyone is doing well today. My parents came to visit a little while back (maybe see them once a year 800 miles away) and brought a footlocker of mine that they have had for me for about 25 years. Forgot all about it through all the moving. Looking through it I found a bunch of coins that I had collected when I was around 8. Very nice surprise. Looking through the coins I found numerous error coins along with some coins from different places around the world. This is one of the war nickels that was in the footlocker. Just wanted to share. Thanks all. If this post is not in the right spot let me know as this is the first time I posted on a forum.
Howdy Howdydoo - Welcome to the Forum !! Interesting - looks like a recut 3. I've never seen one before. I had to look it up to be sure - that's an old style 3 from the '30s (squared top corner ) with a new style ( rounded top ) cut into the punch. I don't know much about nickel varieties - but you might have something there.
Thanks for the welcome. I was thinking it might be a 1943 3/2 but just doesn't quite look like the ones I've seen. I guess I will have to do a bit more research.
It surprises me that you say that Mike. Looking at the close up of just the date - it just doesn't look like damage to me But you know this sort of stuff a lot better than I do.
Mr Potter response to my email was that he thought it might be damage but could not really tell by the pictures. Suggested I might send it in, but his turnaround was 90 to 120 days. Long time to wait if its nothing. Still thinking about it. I don't know that much about the damage kind of thing. I just don't see it. Mike, maybe you can explain it to me why you might think it's damage. To better understand. I took a better picture that better shows it. The long leg on the 4 seems to be layered over the 4. Thanks
It just doesn't have the appearance of any Class III doubled doubled die (design hub doubling) that I am familiar with. There are no true overdates after 1901 and there are no "recut" numerals among 20th century coins that I'm aware of. The subequal height and strength of the numeral either side of the disruption is more consistent with post-strike damage, in my opinion.
I could be out on a limb here, but I think it would be helpful to say that a "doctored" coin is considered as a "damaged" coin. The alterations to the numbers may have been done on purpose. Another possibility is that you have a counterfeit coin. Ken Potters turnaround time may be lengthy, but his diagnosis will be thurough
