Why does this nickel have wheat ears on it?

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telephoto1

Vise job, squeezed between a couple of wheat cents to create a fake error

johnny9434

A common fake, there's many out there

CRHer700

The nickel is silver however.

hummingbird_coins

@telephoto1 said:
Vise job, squeezed between a couple of wheat cents to create a fake error

That wouldn't explain the doubling of the mint mark, Monticello, and some of the lettering.

CRHer700

@hummingbird_coins said:

@telephoto1 said:
Vise job, squeezed between a couple of wheat cents to create a fake error

That wouldn't explain the doubling of the mint mark, Monticello, and some of the lettering.

I'd say that it is probably distortion caused by the squish.

jonathanb

@hummingbird_coins said:

@telephoto1 said:
Vise job, squeezed between a couple of wheat cents to create a fake error

That wouldn't explain the doubling of the mint mark, Monticello, and some of the lettering.

Sure it would. Tighten, loosen, tighten, loosen. Repeat a few times with some shifting in the middle.

This IS a vise job. Details beyond that are irrelevant.

JBK

@hummingbird_coins said:

@telephoto1 said:
Vise job, squeezed between a couple of wheat cents to create a fake error

That wouldn't explain the doubling of the mint mark, Monticello, and some of the lettering.

When the vice job is done the first time some of the nickel's details can get transferred to the cent or whatever else is used. When squeezed again, that other coin can then act as a die and transfer some of the details back.

yosclimber

The first squeeze in the vice creates a "false die" or "transfer die" in a flat piece of metal (wheat cent) which is over the reverse.
Then that false die is rotated and the second squeeze is done.

CaptHenway

Vice job

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