Pretty Proof Nickel I popped out of a set... Update, Well, I screwed that up!
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You know those after market plastic things with the black felt liner? I didn't even notice the long stuck on piece of fabric over the cheek until I was cropping the photos... now I gotta go soak it in acetone and take new pics. 
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Pretty color
My eyes may be playing tricks on me but that kinda looks like a strike-thru not something on the coin.
Very nice, was the rest of the 1961 proof set included or was it a mixed set?
The rest was there, just minimal edge toning... nothing like this dynomite nickel.
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Nice looking proof - hoping that is indeed a stuck piece of something on the cheek and not a defect
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
Nice nickel, but I agree... That appears to be a struck through.... not a random piece of 'stuff'. Cheers, RickO
We will see. I tried a q-tip lightly and it did not come off.
It's soaking now, I'll update again when I get a chance...
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i like the steps on the reverse as well
Is it still soaking?
Pretty piece!
U.S. Type Set
Sorry. I've been slacking. I'll drown it this evening and update soon.
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Looks like a strike-through to me. Look at the depression it's left on the left side of the thread-like anomaly.
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i concur. i have been fooled a few times from clear goup but will be astonished if this isn't a strike-through.
pretty nickel btw!
OK, I was a little hasty on the acetone maybe. I guess I didn't quite believe it was anything other than a piece of debris.
After an initial acetone bath, the black thing did not come off with a light q-tip so I left it to continue soaking overnight.
The next day, I checked it and took a q-tip back at it and felt whatever it was "pop" off... and that was the minute I knew I screwed up. It clearly was stuck in the metal they way it gave when it came off.
Now I just have a nickel that is pretty with some type of damage looking scar on it's face.
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could still grade and be an error. may have been better with crude inside as retained strike thru. u prob ok.