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Any idea what’s going on with this nickle?

Wahoo554Wahoo554 Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭✭✭
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This is a 1940 nickle I found in change. The reverse has an unusual circular pattern in the center of Monticello. Any idea whether this is a mint related error, or most likely post mint? I’m also posting the obverse in case that somehow is relevant. Thanks.


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  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It has circular damage on the reverse.

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Don't ask how it happened, I was not there. :)

  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gumball machine.

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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭

    The damage was done after 1940

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  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 17, 2018 5:22PM

    Old counting/wrapping machine damage.

  • goldengolden Posts: 9,995 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Damage to your NICKEL.

  • Wahoo554Wahoo554 Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks for the responses. Sounds like it was most likely from some sort of machinery post mintage. Appreciate the wealth of knowledge.

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,689 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That type of damage is not that unusual. As others have said, certain machines will cause the circular marks.

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  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,596 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have a 1939 P nickel that has the same appearance.

  • abcde12345abcde12345 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gumball machines in 1940 didn't take nickels. They took a penny.

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  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    counting machine damage

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  • davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,661 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @abcde12345 said:
    Gumball machines in 1940 didn't take nickels. They took a penny.

    They did have vending machines that took nickels then. There was even a big market with them in 1913 when they were designing the American Indian Buffalo nickel.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Definitely PMD... The cause will remain unknown. Good pictures by the way... Cheers, RickO

  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • abcde12345abcde12345 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @davewesen said:

    @abcde12345 said:
    Gumball machines in 1940 didn't take nickels. They took a penny.

    They did have vending machines that took nickels then. There was even a big market with them in 1913 when they were designing the American Indian Buffalo nickel.

    Not for penny gumballs though. 5c was like 50c today.

  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Someone tried to buy a pickle with that nickle and it put up a fight.

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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @abcde12345 said:
    @davewesen said:
    @abcde12345 said:
    Gumball machines in 1940 didn't take nickels. They took a penny.

    They did have vending machines that took nickels then. There was even a big market with them in 1913 when they were designing the American Indian Buffalo nickel.

    Not for penny gumballs though. 5c was like 50c today.

    Did you ever consider that the 1940 nickel might have also circulated After the year it was minted? The damage could have occurred any year since. I'm embarrassed to even have to say it. When I was a young boy in the 1970s, the small gumballs were one cent and the larger ones were 5 cents. The quarter machines had little cracker jack type toys in plastic capsules. By the mid 1980's, the small gumballs were 5 cents, the large a quarter, and the toys 50 or 75 cents.

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  • telephoto1telephoto1 Posts: 4,962 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Coin wrapper crimping machines from back in the day consisted of an electric motor with a die sized to fit the coin roll involved. (different dies for cents, nickels, dimes etc.). You would load the coins into a shotgun-shell type paper roll, then push the open end against the spinning die to crimp the end of the paper roll. This is a common cause of these circular marks, usually from someone being a bit too aggressive when using the machine.


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  • abcde12345abcde12345 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Baley said:

    @abcde12345 said:
    @davewesen said:
    @abcde12345 said:
    Gumball machines in 1940 didn't take nickels. They took a penny.

    They did have vending machines that took nickels then. There was even a big market with them in 1913 when they were designing the American Indian Buffalo nickel.

    Not for penny gumballs though. 5c was like 50c today.

    Did you ever consider that the 1940 nickel might have also circulated After the year it was minted? The damage could have occurred any year since. I'm embarrassed to even have to say it. When I was a young boy in the 1970s, the small gumballs were one cent and the larger ones were 5 cents. The quarter machines had little cracker jack type toys in plastic capsules. By the mid 1980's, the small gumballs were 5 cents, the large a quarter, and the toys 50 or 75 cents.

    The only way that would happen is if pre-war nickels circulated in the 60s and we all know that didn't happen. 5c back in the 40s had tremendous buying powers. There were some third world countries were the workers earned 5c a week.

  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,141 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not sure what a nickle is but your damaged nickel is worth 5c. ;)

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  • Aspie_RoccoAspie_Rocco Posts: 3,668 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice lamp

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  • davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,661 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @abcde12345 said:

    @davewesen said:

    @abcde12345 said:
    Gumball machines in 1940 didn't take nickels. They took a penny.

    They did have vending machines that took nickels then. There was even a big market with them in 1913 when they were designing the American Indian Buffalo nickel.

    Not for penny gumballs though. 5c was like 50c today.

    they had vending machines that dispensed more than gumballs, you are the one stuck on gumballs

  • CoinscratchCoinscratch Posts: 9,845 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Aspie_Rocco said:
    Nice lamp

    Looks like Long John Silver to me...

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  • abcde12345abcde12345 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @davewesen said:

    @abcde12345 said:

    @davewesen said:

    @abcde12345 said:
    Gumball machines in 1940 didn't take nickels. They took a penny.

    They did have vending machines that took nickels then. There was even a big market with them in 1913 when they were designing the American Indian Buffalo nickel.

    Not for penny gumballs though. 5c was like 50c today.

    they had vending machines that dispensed more than gumballs, you are the one stuck on gumballs

    Vending machines never dispensed gumballs nor did gumball machines ever dispense Twinkies.

  • AkbeezAkbeez Posts: 2,697 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That gumball machine in the mens room didn't take nickels ... and no gumballs either... :/

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  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,415 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Akbeez said:
    That gumball machine in the mens room didn't take nickels ... and no gumballs either... :/

    But it pretty chewy. :o

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