Jefferson experts, a little help?

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• longtimecollector Posts: 2,368 ✭

  October 27, 2003 12:55PM

  I have a 44 that at first I thought was without mintmark...... and assumed it was counterfeit... Then I looked again, and the coin is obviously the wartime silver material... (The coin is raw-unc)....... and I thought it would have been pointless for someone to counterfeit the "silver" nickel........ Upon closer examination, a ghost of a mintmark is visible under 10X magnification....... Guess that leaves me with either a filled die error, or an overpolished reverse die (but one polished this drastically would exhibit characteristics as such and be noted somewhere amongst the error specialists)

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• NoGvmnt Posts: 1,126 ✭

  October 27, 2003 1:05PM

  Upon closer examination, a ghost of a mintmark is visible under 10X magnification....... Guess that leaves me with either a filled die error, or an overpolished reverse die
  
  Couldn't be an overpolished reverse die as the mint mark is punched into the die and if the reverse die was polished so much that it obliterated the mint mark there would be a huge indent in place of the mint mark. Maybe the mint mark was overpolished post mint?
  
  Jim

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• jtwax Posts: 241

  October 27, 2003 3:17PM

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• cladking Posts: 28,732 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 27, 2003 9:40PM

  The '44 counterfeit looks like a counterfeit if you look close. The metal doesn't
  look quite right either but the lines are uneven and unnatural especially on the
  profile.

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• NoGvmnt Posts: 1,126 ✭

  October 28, 2003 12:43AM

  Thanks guys, I will check for that particular "marker".
  
  The Nickel in question is included in a box-lot in an auction I will be attending today in Indiana. At even a $25.00 value it is worth bidding on. I'm sure there will be people there shaking their heads at the price I will be bidding the box-lot up to, if they had only gone through the entire box as I did.
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• cladking Posts: 28,732 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 28, 2003 6:56AM

  It might be noted that the counterfeit will bring up to $25 sometimes.

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