RGardner ✭
Greetings. Kind of thrust into coinage after my father passed. He had always tried to school me a little on his hobby, but I'm a newbie for sure. In addition to his graded coins he had literally 8 Folgers Coffee plastic containers full of tubed coins. Everything from Indian Heads to Half dollars. So my task now is immense, putting them in order and understanding any potential errors and looking for oddities. So errors are now an obvious interest to me. So I hope to read and learn.
Apparently God saw it fit to mess with my newbie head right out of the gate! Dad had maybe 10 V nickels loose, not a lot. As I'm looking, I run into one thats a "1913". My little heart went pitter-patter when I looked in the the Red Book (Yes I was thinking about buying a private island). LOL But there was something that wasn't right, a little investigative effort with a micrometer quickly determined it was forged. Not an error, just a 1903, where the 0 was altered to look like a 1.