Jefferson Nickel Experts, Could This 1946-D Be a RPM?

moosesr

I was looking at this 1946-D Jefferson Nickel I just bought and it looks like it might be a RPM, but it only shows up when the light hits it at a side angle. Any opinions on whether it could be a RPM? I will try to get some better pictures later.

Thanks,
Charlie

mozeppa

looks it to me...send it to me for further ananlysis

clackamas

Looks like it could be.

keets

while it may be an RPM, it doesn't appear to be the D/Horizontal D which is really the only one that counts, right?? Jefferson RPM's are common enough that there are only a few that really have a large enough base of collectors to be interesting/high valued enough to chase, for me at least.

al h.

moosesr

Hey Al, Here is the picture the dealer had of the coin online. When I first saw the picture and compared it with pictures in Aucitons of the 1946-D over horiz D I thought it might be one.

Link to 1946-D/D Heritage Auction

keets

neither picture is really very definitive, but the Heritage coin in the blown up version appears to show the curved Horizontal D. both pictures show the D in a similar orientation, but you should be able to look at the coin with a 5-10X glass and know unmistakeably that it's a D/Horizontal D, it should be that clear. there should be some of the D showing in the inner portion of the repunched D. on all the 1942 examples that i have, that diagnostic is clear, even down to VF grades.

al h.

moosesr

Al... The rpm on the coin I have, if it actually is one, is not very clear at all unless you have the light source almost parallel with the slab. I am thinking I just may have a coin made from a worn die. I don't know how the dealers picture made it look so clear, but the possibility of getting the d over horiz D rpm is why I bought the coin.

Here's a picture a 1942-D that I ordered from a dealer hoping that it might be a D over horiz D. I havn't received this coin yet, but after looking at the picture some more, I don't think it is a rpm. This is the first time I have tried to pick out rpm's buy just using a dealers online pictures and I don't know if it is even possible.



Charlie

keets

hey Charlie

the first D was set higher than the picture on this one seems to indicate. it was positioned so that the thorizontal D was almost at the very top of the repunched D. it's visible just inside the top left corner and again at the very bottom left corner.

al h.

moosesr

Al...I know it doesn't look quite like the picture shown in my Cherrypicker's Guide, but I just thought I would take a gamble and try to pick out rpm's buy just using dealers online pictures. I don't know if it is even possible to do this, but I don't get to very many coin shows and don't have a local dealer here that will let me Cherrypick his coins. Have you ever been able to Cherrypick a rpm coin just using a picture?

Charlie