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What could cause this on a nickel?

topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Picture is out of one of my wife's magazines. This is a photo of the pic in the magazine.


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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭
    "What could cause this on a nickel?"

    Photo editing.
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  • BunkerBunker Posts: 3,926 ✭
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  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Then why send to a magazine to ask about what caused it?
  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    smoeone with solder and nothing better to do, as that sure didnt come out of the mint that way
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  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That reminds me of the movie "Independence Day"
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • leothelyonleothelyon Posts: 8,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was sent a picture and asked the same thing. And I'm as clueless as I was then. I'm guessing it was made post-mint and it's a form of symbolism. Figure out what that symbol may represent and then a internet search might provide an answer. But how does one search a symbol?

    Ah! symbols.com

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  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Symbol of a VULVA in Monticello? Maybe it's da WHITE HOUSE!!! Hillary !!!!!

    Sure good soldering to take it up between the B and U of BURPILUS and not touch the letters.
    But they do mintmark solders, so makes sense.

    ??????
  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    Probaly not solder. Cut into the surface at an angle. Done properly it can create a raised line on the coin which is gently tamped back down to hide the evidence of the cut. Frequently seen done as X's in the field on larger coins and sometimes sold to newbies as "Struck from a cancelled die."

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