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    guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,308 ✭✭✭
    May be. Anyone have a good pic of the 2 on a 1902 Nickel?
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,529 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: guitarwes

    May be. Anyone have a good pic of the 2 on a 1902 Nickel?




    Looks like a foreign coin. Perhaps from the Philippines.

    Looks like a die chip rather than an overdate.

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    seanqseanq Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Definitely a US-Philippines issue, probably a peso though it's hard to be completely sure from the way the photo is cropped.



    I see some minor repunching on the 1, and what might be repunching on the top ball of the 3. It takes a little imagination to declare whatever is going on at the lower ball to be the remnants of an underlying 2.



    I know the dates were still punched by hand, but I am not sure if individual punches or a four-digit logotype was used. If someone has a picture of a 1902 dated coin, I would be happy to do a quick photo overlay.



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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,529 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The shield does make it look like a US-Philippines issue so you can assume the dies were made at the Philadelphia Mint. This mint made some US issues with a 3/2 in the date. The 1853/2 $10 and $20 gold coins and the 1943/2 nickel comes to mind. In every case there is a diagonal raised line going through the lower loop of the 3 in the date. I don't see this feature in this coin.

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    coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,510 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Philippine Half Centavo, and YES.

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,864 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I see nothing that looks like a 2. The odd blobs are most likely a part of the repunching of the date.
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    ms70ms70 Posts: 13,958 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Die chip? If anything it looks more like it's over an 8.
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    TomBTomB Posts: 22,974 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No.
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No, it does not...looks more like a die chip..Cheers, RickO

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    SmittysSmittys Posts: 9,877 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: ricko
    No, it does not...looks more like a die chip..Cheers, RickO


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    mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭
    An overlay would likely be conclusive, but to me looks like a combo of repunching and die chips.

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    Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Let me get my glass's. image


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    guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,308 ✭✭✭
    Regarding my response in my reply under the OP; Upon reading the title to this thread, my mind went directly to thinking about the 1943/2 Jefferson Nickel. When I looked at the pics I noticed the date and thought "this couldn't be a Jefferson Nick, it has to be a V-Nickel". Even though I know good and well what a V-Nickel looks like, my mind totally blocked out the bottom of the shield and focused on the date. My mind is screwy like that sometimes............very scary.

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    mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 7,005 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No.

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