'Bad' nickels from the mint in 1888
Link to correspondence regarding brittle five-cent Nickels: https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator:"U.S. Mint" brittle
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Bad transactions with : nobody to date
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Great find on these letters. Thanks for sharing them with us @1630Boston.
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Sounds like a @joeykoins dream come true. Do you think he would have sent them back?
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
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@tommy44 said:
Sounds like a @joeykoins dream come true. Do you think he would have sent them back?that's probably true
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Bad transactions with : nobody to date
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Today they would have been up on eBay advertised as "rare" errors with sky-high buy-it-nows.
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Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.
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Interesting, and great correspondence
Frank
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makes me wonder if they were split flans, ragged edge clips, clamshells, various lamination issues.
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Bad Alloy Mixes?
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They just need some discipline. "Bad nickels! BAD! Go back in your bag and think about what you've done!"
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Pictures or it didn't happen - LOL!
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FWIW, many years ago, I spoke with Jon Danreuther about specific dates of Liberty Nickels. He told me I'd have a much easier time finding an all there gem 1889 piece than one minted in 1888. He went on to say that they often weren't struck well.
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@1Bufffan said:
Bad Alloy Mixes?most likely. or some improper heat treatment. (i don't know much about that process but figure there are ways to do it wrong) perhaps even cooling improperly.
but if there was really "crumbling", most likely the mixture.
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@Steven59 said:
Pictures or it didn't happen - LOL!would impressions be acceptable.
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@LanceNewmanOCC said:
@Steven59 said:
Pictures or it didn't happen - LOL!would impressions be acceptable.
Yes - copper
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Really interesting correspondence.... Would really like to see what the anomaly looked like... Not possible of course, but interesting to speculate. Cheers, RickO
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