Jefferson Nickel Error?

CIVITAS

A customer found this while searching rolls and wanted to know what it was. I'm not really an error guy, so I figured someone here would know.

He'd be grateful for any information.

tahoe98

....it does look like an error of some sort. maybe fred is lurking the boards and will chime in.

sinin1

the line from 1 o'clock to 7 o'clock is a die break


whther that is only reason for poor strike on obverse
or if it was struck through grease as well, I am not sure

seanq

The obverse die split, and a planchet then stuck to it and became a die cap. Your coin was struck by a late stage of this die cap. I've seen a similar break and capped die progression on a dime, I want to say 2000-P. The die cap probably formed shortly after the die split, as a planchet squeezed its way in between the pieces.


Sean Reynolds

morgandollar1878

Looks like a severely cracked die with grease filling.

sumnom

Cool.

ricko

Interesting... and seems to have seen a great deal of commerce prior to discovery. Cheers, RickO

Deagle74

<< <i>The obverse die split, and a planchet then stuck to it and became a die cap. Your coin was struck by a late stage of this die cap. I've seen a similar break and capped die progression on a dime, I want to say 2000-P. The die cap probably formed shortly after the die split, as a planchet squeezed its way in between the pieces.


Sean Reynolds >>





struck though die cap

Rok

astrorat

The coin was struck through a split, capped die.

Lane

Hyperion

InternetJunky

I think this is the first error thread that I opened in which I could name what the error is Looks like some of the info from this forum is starting to soak in. Either way, very interesting error.

CaptHenway

<< <i>The obverse die split, and a planchet then stuck to it and became a die cap. Your coin was struck by a late stage of this die cap. I've seen a similar break and capped die progression on a dime, I want to say 2000-P. The die cap probably formed shortly after the die split, as a planchet squeezed its way in between the pieces.


Sean Reynolds >>



What he said.......

CIVITAS

Interesting. Thanks for all the info. I will pass it along.