Any idea whats going on with this nickel?

Wahoo554

This is a 1960 nickel that I was going over with a loupe. Any opinions on what’s going on with the letters?

Coinscratch

Strike doubling, flat shelf like surfaces on both sides of devices is the giveaway.

johnny9434

machine doubling, .05 cent value. fwiw

FredWeinberg

Die deterioration doubling -
struck from worn or overused dies.

Very common effect on this date of
nickels, thru about 1963 or '64.

davewesen

late die state

when the blank nickel planchet gets pressed at 50+ tons pressure between the dies, it moves and fills the holes. After quite a few thousand nickels made from that set of dies, small grooves are made in the flat fields and the abrupt corners of the letters and devices become rounded and sloped.

Insider2

@johnny9434 said:
machine doubling, .05 cent value. fwiw

@CoinscratchFever said:
Strike doubling, flat shelf like surfaces on both sides of devices is the giveaway.

Read the two posts above. You will see this effect again on the boards.

JBK

What they sais.

If you used the loop after you noticed the weirdness, that is understandable. But, if you are routinely using the loop on every coin, you are wasting valuable searching time.

1630Boston

Too Much magnification ?
Keep looking though

Wahoo554

Thanks for all the helpful analysis. I knew it didn’t look consistent with DDO, but wanted to better understand the phenomenon I was looking at.

ricko

Valid question, good pictures.... a good learning post for new collectors....Cheers, RickO

johnny9434

@Insider2 said:

@johnny9434 said:
machine doubling, .05 cent value. fwiw

@CoinscratchFever said:
Strike doubling, flat shelf like surfaces on both sides of devices is the giveaway.

Read the two posts above. You will see this effect again on the boards.

understood. no offence taken