J P M

Very nice coins NEC

Hard to say maybe grease in the die or?  The rim is flat It looks like a hard hit took out the ( IN WE ) I would not send  it in . If it gets graded as a SMS coin a MS 68 is worth $30 . That wont be worth the grade price.

On 10/4/2023 at 10:39 AM, NeverEnoughCoins09 said:

Was this acquisition a 2023 D or something else @Lem E found? Was just curious 

No it was a nice coin. Not this one. 

I see, ................You have to grab them from a file on your phone or pc by clicking the paperclip, choose files .They cant be to big or they will not upload

On 10/3/2023 at 1:16 AM, powermad5000 said:

@Lem E showed a recent acquisition of his at MS 67 6FS PL. Amazing coin! I could only wish to find one like that in my change!

Ya Lem has some great looking nickels. He has some big registry point coins. 

On 10/2/2023 at 6:27 AM, Fenntucky Mike said:

they are legal tender, which means they cannot be knocked off or counterfeited without legal repercussions.

And we all know that this always works. ...................................I know Mike did not say this it is just a funny statement in his quote...

On 10/2/2023 at 2:26 PM, powermad5000 said:

It has always been so hard to find brand new nickels without all the dings and scrapes. Best I have ever been able to do is MS 66 6FS on any of them from cash register change.

TPG do not grade Nickels very high anyway. MS 66 is a good grade. I think they are scared to grade them any higher.

On 10/1/2023 at 9:05 PM, RWB said:

Thank you. So that's really 100 points vs 70 points, omitting the +  -  *  !!!!!!!! and LQQK stuff. The definitions are all guesses, with almost no empirical content.

I get it.. the 10=70 and if I take off the 9. and change it to a 6 then I have all my MS 60 - MS 69 .well that was easy............. BS all day.

On 10/1/2023 at 10:16 AM, Henri Charriere said:

You sure that's a '69?

It is labeled that way. It could be a PF 70 on a good day or a PF 68 on a bad day ...........Or a very rare S 8661

On 10/1/2023 at 11:39 AM, Mike Meenderink said:

We have the same coin. Nice coin! Yours has a  SP/PL surface...NICe!

Ya Mike, Your SP looks to have a different finish? Your coin is from the set and mine looks like the matt finish strike. I must just be the lighting on your coin makes it look different.

October 1st,  I have been roll hunting looking for a 2023 D Nickel with no luck. Today at the grocery store I finally got one in change. It is a piece of junk with to many dings to put in my coin folder but at least it made it to the east coast. There will be more.  

 A new to me PF69UC

On 9/30/2023 at 4:44 PM, cobymordet said:

curious what causes a golden tone

I think the gold is from oil in the heat sealed cellophane of the mint sets  

On 9/30/2023 at 7:48 AM, jimg908 said:

Can I get a call on this S from my 1981 Roosevelt dime?

It is out of focus , that is to hard to tell if it is a flat top. It looks round

I think most of us agree that NGCX is not our cup of T. This is one subject where I do not agree with my T shirt. 

Yes after a year I would think things have changed ,,,,,,,,,,,, Unless Arthur Finch has found that time is irrelevant.

On 10/13/2022 at 10:20 AM, Arthur Finch said:

Through the notion of 'spending' and 'collecting' time

On 10/13/2022 at 10:20 AM, Arthur Finch said:

the abundance of time.

I find I have a lot less time than I used to have.......

On 9/29/2023 at 3:47 AM, VKurtB said:

From the weight, I’d guess tin. Can tin be plated with silver?

Didn't the British silver plate anything that was not moving to fast. 

On 9/26/2023 at 8:54 PM, Henri Charriere said:

I don't know if they use the term piedfort (strong foot) to describe this or not, but it would be good to determine the composition which I suspect may be bronze. Probably one of the thicker tokens ever posted on this thread. It exudes scarcity. Great find!  

Here ya go.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia177061.html

Looks like you got a good start, Ed

On 9/26/2023 at 10:14 PM, powermad5000 said:

To be honest @J P M, I am not as good at grading these as I am looking at other series. I went to look at some graded examples, and I am not sure how it would go. J's hair on the obverse in grades 65,66,67 all seem to have progressively more details in the hair than this coin has. BUT, the reverses on any of the ones I looked at do not have as much detail in Monticello as this one has. I don't know where the graders would draw the line at strike wise as the reverse on the one you have asked about is really awesome for the year and mintmark but there seems to be less details evident in the hair. Considering the few nicks evident on the reverse as well, I think the graders would factor those in so I am going to make my humble guess that it would grade out as a 66. I think those nicks would keep it from achieving a grade of 67.

Thanks for your opinion, Not many collectors like to guess grades on nickels and dimes. I agree that nickels are hard to grade. Almost every year has a oddity you have to be aware of in this series. In the early sixty's the hair was always a problem with strike. I think they would let that go as is. I agree the bag marks on the reverse are going to hold it at a 66. Most of the TPG do not give out 67-70 on regular strike coins unless it is flawless. That is why the price jump is so dramatic in those last four grades. Thanks again for looking. powermad.