Do you think this Jefferson Nickel is PL and is the date common in that condition??
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It came out of a roll, has frost like a mid-50's coin struck from fading dies and has decent mirrors on both sides which don't display typical cartwheel luster. The first picture was with the light at a low angle and the next two much higher; what do you think??
Al H.
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I've never seen such PL surfaces on a nickel coin before.
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Could be a very early die stage, maybe even one of the first coins off a new die?
Were there any others like it in the roll?
This date is fairly common in PL but this specimen is extreme and I've seen very
few that even approach it. Nearly 1% of mint set '70-D's are PL but the vast major-
ity are only a little PL.
The odds are good it's a mint set coin despite being outside the norm. I say this
because it's a new die and fully struck not because it's PL. They do make PL's for
circulation every year probably but few are saved and they are quite scarce even
in the year of issue.
Pretty unusual from my experience to find them THAT PL. Very nice find!
Greg
You made me go look....this is the best one I have out of about 10 that I pulled from sets.
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proof reverse but once ibn a while you can find two sided PL's for this date.
The most dramatic of all the modern denominations is the '88-D cent. These look
like branch mint proofs and can be just as clean. Some of these have the copper
stripped off UNITED by the crisp strike so you better look quick, they won't last long.