Shield Nickel help

[Dwaine]

Where can I find info about the different varieties for the Shield nickels? I have an 1866 that I wan to research.

 

 

 

[dooly]

Howards (SNV) http://www.shieldnickels.net/snv/manual/welcome.html is the best online / disk if not i find Fletchers book is the best book so far..

 

Or you could send me some close ups of the date on your coin (i like scans better) and i will see whats happening there

 

all the best dooly

[Dwaine]

[TomB]

I believe there is one person in the world who collects Shield nickels...let me see...maybe IGWT knows who it is?

[dooly]

F-13 (FS-001.4) shows similar re-punching to the date BUT your date is a lot further from the ball and there should be two large areas of raised metal between ES of STATES which i cannot see in you pictures .. i will do some further investigation..

[dooly]

I have looked through SNV and cannot find your coin i think you should contact Skippy (Howard) about this.. I could have been looking in the wrong place but i could not find a match with the date so low

 

Ps. is there a bit of a drift in the annulet or is that the scanner ?

[Dwaine]

Thanks, I think I am going to submit it to NGC and see what they say.

[dooly]

The problem with that is if it is not in cherrypickers they will not assign which variety it is

[Dwaine]

Do you have an email address for Howard or how is the best way to contact him. I can't seem to find any pictures on shieldnickels.net.

[jesbroken]

Dooly,

Is this not an S1 4001 as is shown from the die crack from the rim to the N and across the top of UNITED? Maybe an earlier die state? JMO

Jim

[skippy]

First of all, do not send this to NGC - it will be a waste of your money and you won't learn what variety it is.

 

Second, I am guessing from your inset photos of the date that you see a repunched date on this coin. Your photo is not good enough for me to tell whether there is a repunched date or not. If there is a repunched date, then it is one that has not yet been catalogued.

 

The suggestion above that this might be S1-4001 cannot be true because the date on this coin is much farther west than S1-4001.

 

In conclusion: either no variety at all or possibly a repunched date. If you are able to provide a much enlarged photo of the date I can probably tell you which. If you are using a scanner, just set the scanner to 1200 dpi.

 

[dooly]

Hi all - i thought i was having trouble finding it.. love the die cracks on the revers (thumbs u

 

i have had a fiddle around with your scan and this is the best i could do

 

[Dwaine]

Well my scanner is one of the combo one's connected with a printer. I will try to get a closeup of the date with my camera and a loupe later today.

[Dwaine]

[skippy]

I see doubling to the north on the date, but I still can't tell if that's a repunched date or just strike doubling. You uploaded a photo with a lot of JPEG compression, which makes it harder to tell.

 

Use a higher quality JPEG. If the message board won't let you post it, email it to me at: howard@sci1.com