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Coin_nut1977Coin_nut1977 Posts: 1,517 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Black 1998d with gold color. Ugly nickel for sure just never came across a nickel like this. Could it be any thing else beside corrosion? Just try to learn a bit. :)

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    SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,986 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like a metal detector find.

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    SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,986 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BillDugan1959 has a special jar. . .

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    HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Smudge said:
    @BillDugan1959 has a special jar. . .

    DAMN!!!!!!! YOU BEAT ME TO IT!!!!!

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    emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 5,249 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like someone is sneaking up on him @ the southeast, sorry no arrows
    The nose , knows

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    JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    PMD.

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    OldhoopsterOldhoopster Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Environmental damage.

    Coins do not leave the mint looking like that. But the 75Cu25Ni alloy used in nickels (and the outer clad layers of dimes - halves) will react with numerous things in the environment.

    Member of the ANA since 1982
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yep... that nickel has been in an unfriendly environment and suffered the consequences....Cheers, RickO

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    291fifth291fifth Posts: 25,205 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Strictly environmental damage. Absolutely no numismatic value or interest.

    All glory is fleeting.
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    BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,754 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like some of the stuff I used to pull out of the ground.

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
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    Rktect1Rktect1 Posts: 16 ✭✭
    edited December 6, 2019 6:25AM

    Looks like cat-sick. I have seen one other coin look like that. We took an old half dollar and tried several different ways to clean it. After dips and polishes, etc etc. It looked like cat-sick to us.

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    Coin_nut1977Coin_nut1977 Posts: 1,517 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @291fifth said:
    Strictly environmental damage. Absolutely no numismatic value or interest.

    Thank u

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    Coin_nut1977Coin_nut1977 Posts: 1,517 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Oldhoopster said:

    Environmental damage.

    Coins do not leave the mint looking like that. But the 75Cu25Ni alloy used in nickels (and the outer clad layers of dimes - halves) will react with numerous things in the environment.

    Thanks

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