Strange Jefferson!

harbon

Someone happened to show me a Jefferson nickel today that I thought was quite strange. The back is missing??




I have no idea what is wrong with this coin. Some mint error? Fake? Someone trying to make a counterfeit? Someone who enjoys dismembering coins?

Thanks

p.s. Having too much fun taking pictures of coins! lol

TonedCoinTrader

Looks like some one cut the reverse out attempting to make a 2 sided obverse coin or a rotated die and didn't glue the reverse in good enough so it fell out.

Scott

airplanenut

That's easy to do in a machine shop with a good lathe...

Placid

100% indent.

Here is a mint error indent. I think yours was probably done post mint but not my area of collecting.

Shamika

Machine shop did it, but it's still cool.

BNE

I think it's a "Magician's coin." You can turn a nickel into a penny or dime with a little sleight of hand.

centmaster

It is possible that this was a practice piece to make a coin that you could smuggle illegal substances in. I heard about these a few years back in a Coin World article, I think. If you take two coins and cut them in half, hollow out one obverse and one reverse and then make the two stick together, then there is a little space for anything you want to put in. A larger coin would obviously be more "practical".

Purple73

heheheh thats funny. Yep you can slap one of those on a lathe to get it that way or you put it on a Bridgeport and mill it. I once had a quarter that was a tad bent and kept sticking in the mechanism of the pop machine so I took it over to the Enerpak and fixed'er right up.

I saw a show once on the tube where a guy put sac dollars on a lathe and cut out the reverse and then cut the obverse off of a quarter and inserted it into the back of the Sac.

PURPLE!

harbon

I don't think it's a smuggling coin, as it is not cut in half.

Interesting comments on this though Thanks for the input!