I found this in a roll of nickels. The obverse is lightly struck. You can see Jefferson but no date and only "In Go" at the top (hard to see in the picture). The reverse does not seem to be struck at all. This was in a roll of uncirculated 2020-D nickels, so I would guess that is the date.
Very interesting and no rim either. I'm at a loss. Was it from a sealed Loomis or N.F. String roll? Calling @paddyman98 & @Fred Weinberg ?
Tic Tac thinks it didn't come from the Mint like that . IMHO . Let's see what the Specialist and Experts have to say .
Possibly, but it came in a solid date, sealed roll which adds a bit of intrigue to what might have happened. Maybe those Loomis folks have a Dremel to play with.
Look at the vertical and horizontal scratches them all in general,this is key to it being damaged also look at the rim to,the flat slope like appearance.
I can clearly see that it was ground down somehow on the Reverse. No. That's not any kind of error. Especially not a light strike. No upraised rim.
I wasn't saying it was not ground down, just that it seemed strange that it appeared in a sealed, solid date Loomis roll.
True.. A Loomis employee maybe had the damaged Nickel in their pocket and decided to add it into the mix to have it rolled. Hoping that one day someone would discover it and then ask about it here on CoinTalk!
Not that strange. When they are rolling they dump into the machine what they have, sometimes it's circulated coins and sometimes it's ballistic bags of new coins. And they don't run the machine empty before they dump the next batch in. During the transition period between batches you get transition rolls as well. Say they are running a ballistic bag and then dump in circulated coins. For a while the machine will continue putting out solid date rolls then some of the rolls will have one or two off coins, them more off coins, then half and half, then mostly circs with a few new coins, and finally all circ coins.
