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My New '1868 Shield Nickel'
cmerlo1
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I picked up another one for my contemporary counterfeit type set at the San Antonio show yesterday. This coin fooled a lot of people, based on the amount of wear. There are a lot of neat things going on with it- the large, repunched, inverted-8 date, the shield lines that look hand-engraved with the vertical lines running into the horizontal ones, and the broken '0' on the reverse.
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Nice pick! Congrats!
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Pretty interesting.
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Thanks for explaining the diagnostics @cmerlo1.
Is the aging artificial?
Great pic, congrats. I think it's neat.
No, this coin was actually made during the time Shield Nickels were circulating. It's real wear from being in circulation.
Amazing it floated for so long. Thanks for this info.
This is a nice counterfeit. I have it catalogued as S2-9000. This example is considerably nicer than the coin I photographed.
http://www.shieldnickels.net
In looking at the photos again, I realized that the images I posted are not of the same counterfeit. The reverse is the same, while the obverse is different.
It is fairly common to see shield nickel counterfeits with mix and match die pairs. This points to a single counterfeiter being responsible.
http://www.shieldnickels.net
If the OP can provide the necessary photos, I would like to list this in SNV. Directions for photo taking are here:
http://www.shieldnickels.net/snv4/manual/contributing.html
http://www.shieldnickels.net
I would love to! Would the images already posted suffice for the obverse and reverse shots? If so I can provide them in higher resolution...
I like the "bleeding" vertical shield lines into the horizontal, which is an actual variety for a different year; 1876.
1876 "Bleeder" S1-8000 F-09
http://www.shieldnickels.net/top20/76F09.html
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A classic non genuine ..... I could easily fooled
Good Fake!
I like how the W is larger than the E on both counterfeits. The OF looks pretty hacked, too.
Very cool piece!
pretty cool. looks like it was passed off a few times
Really a cool piece.......no heresy toward Shields here as I love them too, but that is neater than the real deal.
nice ones.
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Very interesting... It is good to post counterfeit coins here with the diagnostics... a great learning tool for all of us. Cheers, RickO
No, the existing shots don't work. I need higher resolution and minimal JPEG compression. The link I provided has all the details.
http://www.shieldnickels.net
With a week or so of careful close work, the maker could buy 5 cents worth of something.
Got it.
Great piece and congrats on the acquisition. This is one of the 'York Street Mint' counterfeits made in Brooklyn, New York in 1869-1870. There are nine recorded varieties in this counterfeit family, all of which used German silver planchets. This variety will soon be officially identified as 1868 2-B in an upcoming publication on these counterfeits.
The best reference work on shield nickel false die counterfeits is here:
http://www.shieldnickels.net/articles/Counterfeits/ContemporaryCounterfeits.pdf
http://www.shieldnickels.net
Thank you!
Super-nice contemporary counterfeit. Congrats!
Ditto!
The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!
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