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That is a shame, I do not think there is much you can do for it. I have a set of ASE's and a few I had to rinse off with hot water to remove dust particles before putting them in airtight holders and it worked fine. It may work on your coin as a last resort, but I would not want to chance water spots on a proof coin. I would just live with it.

Yes and they tried to give me 14 Ike's, but she showed me a hand full and the ones she had were all pvc green spots. I said I will pass on that batch.

Yes powermad ,the one with the large die gouge is a more obvious one it does go from rim to rim it is very hard to see in the center. I finished my little coin search of the die gouge coins2023 P. In 24 rolls it averaged out around 10 to 13 out of the 40 coins I looked at that had the obverse small gouge or the large reverse gouge. Just some useless information for you all. On the coins with the small gouge on the G in GOD it had a lot of die markers on both sides. Including gouge under nose, on chin and neck, die chip on nose, chin also large chip on the side of Monticello and roof, and a die scratch in the main door of Monticello. It is basically a mess Sorry, that is all I could find on that coin ..LoL

No questions are stupid it is how we learn. I have been around a long time, and I find new information every day because someone asked a question.

That is not a good-looking coin at all. I have found better looking proofs in pocket change.

I agree, it is a worn-out nickel.

She always wins

We may have to decipher the code. Was the mint mark on the coin from peppermint or spearmint? I would think the spearmint would leave a mark being a spear and all.

Well, that sounds simple.

Yes I bought a bunch of these1980 and 79//81 type 1 and 2 for five bucks a piece a few years back. Most of them are nice. There are a few fogged ones that I just bought anyway, maybe they will tone nicely LoL

Just out of curiosity I picked up ten rolls from another bank. I did not find any more of the die scratched coins. I returned those and went back to the first bank where I found them and picked up another fifteen samples of both obvers and reverse scratches. So now I have a full roll of sample coins. Not that it is a big collectable just neat that I happen to find it so I will just put them in the scrap box labeled as die scratched 2023. There must be a bunch more out there if I can find forty at one bank, I am sure others can also.

Yes, HC this is a 6-step coin. but in the NGC registry all PCGS coins are considered 5 step coins.

It amazes me how people spend the time to do stuff like this. Heads on both sides

I was working on building a new Whitman coin folder and I see the 1943 D may be a hard one to find. LoL

It looks to me Eagle the reeding has dissolved a bit also I think this coin is going to show a weight difference when it is all said and done.

Much better. Now you can see the grain of the coin looks like an acid bath of some kind.

I would have cropped it, if it was a new shot but it was an old file picture, and it uploaded the way it was.

Ya it is a quite cold rainy day.

And three 1997 P

Die cracks are fun also. Three different 1994 P

Yes all different coins, you can see some have bag marks that do not match up.

I opened up that roll of 2020 P to try to give you some die stages.

Ya if it was a clip it has gone way past its prime. The only thing that made me look was the way the rim on the obverse tapered and thinned out, but it is most likely damage.

This coin has seen 80 years of circulation so I cannot say for sure. It looks to be a minor clip on this coin. It has a taper to the rim and the strike is week on the reverse. Again, not a coin worth much more than two cents

If you have a bad coin in a proof or mint set, you could by the five-coin Whitman holder to put the good ones in. I have coins in proof sets that were fogged when I got them and that is where they will stay. It is still safer than the 5 pc set.