l.cutler

I believe there are places that pay slightly more than face value for dateless nickels to make jewelry out of them, but numismatically, no value over face.

Looks to be severe environmental damage, it probably spent time buried in the ground.

Welcome to the forum. Your scale is useless for weighing coins. It will round to the nearest whole gram, a normal copper coated zinc cent weights 2.5, so if this one weighs 2.51 it will round up to 3. You need a scale that will read to at least hundredths of a gram. This coin has the look of a normal copper coated zinc cent.

Those are both large dates. Pictures just aren't clear enough to see any doubling.

I have never been a member, never submitted a coin to NGC, never paid them one cent for anything, but have been participating on these boards for going on five years now.

Welcome to the forum. Your cent is just damaged. Looks like another coin was hammered into this one leaving a partial impression of the other coin.

If you want to know if it is a large or small date, you may want to post a picture of the date.

Welcome to the forum, and a great hobby! You are absolutely correct, the whole point of this forum is for new collectors to ask questions, so ask away and ignore the few naysayers. Those are nice cents, you might want to consider getting an album and start a Lincoln cent collection. While not worth grading they would look great in a nice album like this. Lincoln Cents 1909-1995, Album: Whitman: 9780307091123: Amazon.com: Books I also highly recommend getting a redbook of US coins. Amazon.com: A Guide Book of United States Coins 2025 "Redbook": 9780794850586: R.S. Yeoman, Jeff Garrett: Books

Just saying they are AM Pennies makes no sense. There are close AM and wide AM varieties. Only the close AM have any value.

I’m not seeing any doubling at all. Just a normal cent.

Not an error just damaged. Looks like it was exposed to high heat.

Well, there is a lot of mystery and speculation about the so called 1964 sms coins, but none have ever been found in circulation, rolls, sets etc. and it is widely accepted that none were released to the public in any way. You can compare specific die markers or post better pictures front and back, but there is really no chance that yours is anything but a normal 1964 nickel.

It looks like there may be a die chip on the mintmark but what else do you see that you feel are errors

1964 is the highest mintage year for Jefferson nickels, what about these three make you think they may be SMS?

Keeper for your collection? Definitely, while not much value a 1941 cent would be a good start to a Lincoln cent collection. As Sandon stated better than I ever could, Lon rim is not an error, just a scam from unscrupulous sellers!

One other point, just because a coin gets an uncirculated designation does not mean it never entered circulation. It just means it shows no wear.

We’ll just have to agree to disagree on this one.

Welcome to the forum! Sorry, but what you have is just one, beat up nickel worth only face value.

Don't forget, the peso has been devalued since then, according to this, 1000 pesos 1988, Mexico - Coin value - uCoin.net , 59 cents.

The goiter looking area is what I believe is heat damage. The outer clad layer separates and bubbles up. My opinion, right or wrong. Struck through grease also takes away details, it doesn't add any raised areas.

That’s all damage, at least some of it from heat.

You're in for a huge disappointment.

As stated, very common coin with no numismatic value.

Just because you see doubling does not mean it is a doubled die. There are several types of doubling most of which add no value.

Definitely a 56-n, also known as a camel head variety. This is one of if not the most common NJ varieties, and as Just Bob stated is usually struck over other coins. While it is very common, it is a popular variety for collectors and the value is enhanced if the undertype can be identified.