Jefferson on Copper???

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• DUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭

  July 17, 2008 4:28PM

  Man! I could go for that!

  “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly."
  
  
  
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• rec78 Posts: 5,873 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 17, 2008 5:00PM

  A cent planchet got in the nickel press. I have a raw 1976 nickel struck on a cent planchet
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

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• seanq Posts: 8,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 17, 2008 11:36PM

  It's a nickel struck on a cent planchet, somehow the cent blank got mixed inwith the nickels and struck by nickel dies. The asking price of $575 is pretty strong, if it were my coin I would have taken the $300 offer. 1978 is a slightly better date, probably half of the nickels on cent planchets in the market today are dated 1980-P, supposedly an entire tote of cent planchets was misfed and struck as nickels that year. You could probably find a 1980-P with a little searching for around $150-200.
  
  
  Sean Reynolds

  Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.
  
  "Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor

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