Any shield nickel experts?

smprfi · February 15, 2003 12:59PM

I have an 1868 missing leaf variety but it doesn't match anything I have in my shield nickel book.

mbbiker · February 15, 2003 1:00PM

do you have any pics?

BigD5 · February 15, 2003 8:49PM

Contact Sunnywood over at the NGC site. I'm not sure what his handle is here.

smprfi · February 16, 2003 5:00AM

ttt

darktone · February 16, 2003 8:26PM

ttt

Conder101 · February 16, 2003 9:43PM

There are still a LOT of shield nickel varieties that are not recorded. The Fletcher book was mainly interested in just repunched dates and doubled dies and i know I didn't have that one recorded in my notes either. The only person I know of who might have had information on that coin would have been Les Leroy Smith. He had several hundred 1868 varieties listed. Unfortunately he never published any of his work and he was getting out of the shield nickels over a decade ago. I don't know where he is today. (at one time he offered to sell me his entire reference set, plus photosgraphs and all of his notes but I couldn't afford it. Its a shame because it would have made a great book.

Any shield nickel experts?

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