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Buffalo Nickel surface damage?

jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,404 ✭✭✭✭✭
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What do you think caused the surface damage to this coin. Just curious as it looks like some kind of acid treatment.
Jim


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  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,024 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Kinda looks like a grainy planchet that didn’t fill out when struck would be my guess, Jim.

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  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,522 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like a bad strike on a Type I Planchet. The rim looks weird, too. Is it a D or S? I'm pretty sure it is.

    Could also be a light strike created when the press was shutting down. I've seen other Buffs with a flat strike like yours, with the entire center area flat and featureless.

    Pete

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  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 18, 2018 11:18AM

    Both! OPSI marks in the center of weakness, corrosion at the top. Great teaching coin!

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