Coin Cave

9 hours ago, TON Collection said:

 

Well well I did not know that.   POOP

Your coin is still a nice nickel.  1965-67 SMS coins are a cool set to collect.  Look for SMS coins with cameo effects.  Cameo SMS coins are also rare. 

It looks to be a nickel from an SMS set.  The SMS coins, like proof coins, don't get a Full Step designation in todays grading.  Only cameo or ultra cameo.  If you do locate a nice mint state business strike 1965 Jefferson nickel with full steps that would be the money shot.  Keep looking.

From the reverse picture it looks like the coin was mounted in something.  Is it possible that is solder around the rim on the reverse?  It is hard to tell from the pic.

Put up pictures of the reverse.  

Can I substitute the isopropyl alcohol with Everclear?  They sell 99.9% isopropyl alcohol at electronic stores.  I like it for cutting through cellophane residue.   

9 hours ago, Greenstang said:

My only Lincoln error coin. Off Centre Strike.

Wish the date was showing.

 

Someone the other day showed a 1969-S with a floating Memorial roof.   Not saying that is the date or mint of your coin.  It looks like yours has a floating roof.  I think there are a couple other dates and mints that had this die abrading feature, also.  Might get you in the ball park.

This coin's story starts back in 2000 in a resort town in Mexico.  A patron of the resort needs cab fare.  He only has these gold coins.  He goes to the pro shop at the  resort's golf course and asks for face value of the 2 gold coins for cab fare.  Neither one of the two participants in this trade care one iota about the gold coins.  Forward to 2015.  The gold coins had been sitting in change jars with other U.S. and Mexican pocket change for years.  Of course the best course of action to cash in the coins was to visit a CoinStar machine.  Mexican coinage especially gold is not accepted by CoinStar.  He no longer had a need for Mexican coinage or the gold.  But, I did.

I got this one off a lingering dealer late on the last day of a show.  I asked him how much for a generic $2.50 Indian.  He gave me a price.  I dug the money out of my pocket.  He gave me a box of slabbed coins and told me to find one.  I was slow and he grabbed the box from me.  There was only one in the box anyway.  I guess the green in my hand was talking to him.  He threw it down on the table and took my money.  I didn't really look at it and wondered why he was not happy about selling me the coin.  When I got to the car I found out why.  A good day at the coin show.

17 hours ago, MAULEMALL said:

I had to download both pics and blow them up side by side on my 40 inch high Def tv I use as a monitor to see what you were talking about (to be honest it still took a couple mins to see it).

The few seconds they look it's no surprise they didn't see it..

 

I had to look at the OP's coin really close also when someone said it was a Reverse B.  I think the coin may be angled to try to bring out the toning.  That may be what is making the reverse look like a Reverse B. 

Also If you look at the tips of the arrows on both reverses you will notice the A reverse tips are split at the end.  The B reverse arrow tips come to a distinct point.  The leaf above the A in DOLLAR also touches the A on the Reverse B.  This Reverse B variety is common and easily found (1956-1964  Philly quarters).  A lot of the coins with this variety came from mint sets.  I found one in a 1963 mint set I bought.  1958 seems to be a good year where this variety is plentiful.  Or at least that is where I have found most of them.  I still don't have one for each year in mint state, but, I am on the hunt.  NGC will attribute Reverse B quarters.

On ‎5‎/‎16‎/‎2019 at 9:28 PM, thisistheshow said:

As stated above, it is a nice quarter. It appears to be a type B reverse. 

 

As for your pictures, often times a cell is fine. If you are not already, make sure you are setting the phone on something and not just holding it so you eliminate any shake. 

The Op's 1964 quarter is not a Reverse B.  Here is a 1957 quarter, unattributed by NGC, with a Reverse B (cherrypicked off eBay.).  Notice the leaf in front of the arrow quiver protrudes above the arrows on the Reverse B.  In the Reverse B motto STATES there is a definite space between E and S that is not there on Reverse A coins.  Also the leaf above A in DOLLAR is much more pronounced than on typical Reverse A quarters.

Another Roosevelt dime for the registry set.

I bought the coin just for the reverse.  Both the up and down horseshoe share the same reverse.

Added this coin to a Roosevelt dime registry set I am working on.  Quite the bump with this one.

I bought one a couple months ago for a type set.  I paid retail for mine.  Compared to a D or S minted Buffalo it is rather inexpensive.  I think since it was a first year issue and a first year design change a lot of people kept some for their collection.

PCGS MS65