Racketeer Nickels...

Coll3ctor

Did all of the early (1880's) racketeer nickels have reeded edges or were they just gold plated?

cmerlo1

No. I have owned several from the period that have some gold plating left but no reeded edges. The ones that do are way cooler.

braddick

I tried picking up a decent example a couple of weeks ago. Coin had XF detail and the plating was 50%. The reading though was well done.
I thought it would close at $40. or so and I was way off!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/265649623989?hash=item3dd9f393b5:g:MV0AAOSwwt5iXMen

TurtleCat

Everything I’ve read talks about how the vast majority were made to order in the 1960s.

JBK

@TurtleCat said:
Everything I’ve read talks about how the vast majority were made to order in the 1960s.

Those are usually well worn with bright gold plating.

jayPem

I have three plated V nics..
Interestingly, the only one with reeding is also a love token.
It seems fairly common to find LT's gold plated, so I can't really speculate on any of these being truly racketeer made..

ricko

I have one I picked up a long time ago... No reeding... So I believe it is a just a plated nickel. Cheers, RickO

BuffaloIronTail

Just for reference.

Pete