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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;neffster, post: 1605997, member: 43075&quot;]For starters, I am not a coin collector and know virtually nothing about coin errors, mis-stamped coins, real vs. fake errors, etc...&nbsp; I came across this weird nickel many years back and just stuck it in with my wheat pennies, silver dollars, etc…</p><p><br /></p><p>I’ve tried to search to see if this coin is worth anything, but don’t know the correct words to search by and Google brought me to this forum so I registered and thought I’d share my anomaly.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have a 1990 nickel has a thick, thick outer ‘lip’ or ‘edge’ that is rounded from top to bottom and much thicker than an average nickel (see photo).&nbsp; The nickel on the left is an average nickel.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd52/toddneff/Coins/nickeledge_zps821f5650.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, the diameter of the nickel is slightly smaller than a normal nickel.&nbsp; Also, the front and back of the nickel are recessed within the ‘lip’ or ‘edge’ around the coin and the center of the nickel is a bit thinner than a normal nickel (I can’t get a good photo of this unless I cut the nickel in half – not going to happen).</p><p><br /></p><p>You can see by the shadows in the photos that the edges of the front and back of the coin ‘roll’ on a radius toward the outer ‘edge’, but the outer ‘edge’ sticks up past the coin on both sides.&nbsp; I hope the pictures do a better job at explaining the coin than my words did.&nbsp; Maybe another way to describe this coin is that it could literally hold water on both sides (like a bowl with a flat bottom) because it is very thin in the center and the edges are thick on both sides.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, the rarities: apparently thinner nickel than a standard nickel, slightly smaller diameter than a normal, much thicker ‘edge’ compared to a normal nickel.</p><p>My questions:</p><p><br /></p><ol> <li>Is this a real coin or a fake and how can I tell?</li> <li>Is this type of error even possible?&nbsp; If so, what is the error called?</li> <li></li> </ol><p><img src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd52/toddneff/Coins/1990nickel02_zpsd35acc3e.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd52/toddneff/Coins/1990nickel01_zps67ba7aa6.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd52/toddneff/Coins/1990nickel03_zps92afd567.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for any input you can provide![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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