I'd rather be lucky than good ... bought a roll of 65 SMS Jeffs on eBay for all of $10. Exceptional quality for a roll lot, including one beautiful toner, another that would cam and this little jewel, which still needs a little TLC. Fields show die polishing, likely one of the first strikes off a newly polished die pair ...
Super contrast on that one! 1965 is the hardest SMS year for DCAMS. It looks like the fields are too messed up to be a top pop coin, but it sure looks a winner in any case. I think '65 SMS DCAMS are way undervalued. Great job.
I peg it at 65 ... perhaps a low end 66. Field hits are exaggerated in that photo and not nearly as distracting in hand. Very high end CAM, reverse all there, but obverse a trifle short methinks, but tickled to find something decent in a $10 roll...
RGL, Very nice. I agree the reverse looks full dcam. I think the obverse has a chance, depending on how much the fields clean up. They appear to have a bit of haze. Good find.
excellent contrast, wrong mirrors on that pair for the DC. needs a good curation and is worthy of a definite premium over the avg 65sms cam have at leat a dozen 65's in stock right now 66 &67's that are those "oh so close" and they fetch the right bux too, throw the holder in the garbage, that's only a starting point
RGL, that is a very attracitve 65 SMS nickel. Great find. Let us know what grade it recieves when you submit it to a TPG. Hopefully you will have a better result in this coin than you did on your 1955 nickel.
65 SMS nickels are very tough to find in CAM/DCAM. I have found only one 65 that looks like yours. Plucked it from an original 65 SMS set at a show a few years back.
It has great mirrors and frost, however, multiple small flecks of what looks like copper are embedded in the obverse fields and devices. The only thing I can think of it that a cent planchet somehow got attached to the hammer die as a die cap and that after multiple strikings the cap disintegrated to the point where it fell off the hammer die but left flecks of copper on the surface of the hammer die which were then transferred to the planchet that was struck into my nickel. Quite a mystery and I can think of no other explanation for how the coin came to be.
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Russ, NCNE
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The Ludlow Brilliant Collection (1938-64)
The Ludlow Brilliant Collection (1938-64)
<< <i>Sharp coin but won't the scratches kind of take away from it getting a good grade? >>
Yes, but the grade is really secondary on this coin. The mirror depth and level of contrast is very rare for this issue.
Russ, NCNE
Very nice. I agree the reverse looks full dcam. I think the obverse has a chance, depending on how much the fields clean up. They appear to have a bit of haze. Good find.
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needs a good curation and is worthy of a definite premium over the avg 65sms cam
have at leat a dozen 65's in stock right now 66 &67's that are those "oh so close"
and they fetch the right bux too, throw the holder in the garbage, that's only a starting point
Russ, NCNE
65 SMS nickels are very tough to find in CAM/DCAM. I have found only one 65 that looks like yours. Plucked it from an original 65 SMS set at a show a few years back.
It has great mirrors and frost, however, multiple small flecks of what looks like copper are embedded in the obverse fields and devices. The only thing I can think of it that a cent planchet somehow got attached to the hammer die as a die cap and that after multiple strikings the cap disintegrated to the point where it fell off the hammer die but left flecks of copper on the surface of the hammer die which were then transferred to the planchet that was struck into my nickel. Quite a mystery and I can think of no other explanation for how the coin came to be.