GTG - War Nickel

[physics-fan3.14]

Since Roger posted a thread about the War Nickel composition, I thought it might be fun to do a GTG on the subject. Here, for your viewing pleasure, is one of my recent purchases. Guess the Grade!

 

[zvandehey-migration]

I'm going to say ms66. Who knows if I'm correct though! Nice coin!

[Coinbuf]

Strike looks abit soft, is this a DDO? Looks like I see doubleing on the lettering but I cannot tell if its just strike doubleing or not. I say ms64, MS65 if its a DDO.

[physics-fan3.14]

Strike looks abit soft, is this a DDO? Looks like I see doubleing on the lettering but I cannot tell if its just strike doubleing or not. I say ms64, MS65 if its a DDO.

 

Good eye. There is a bit of hub-doubling on the obverse. There is doubling on the Master die for the year, so all coins have a minor DDO. Additional doubling is pretty common, and I'm not sure if it is an additional variety.

[jayman1970]

looks to me like a 65

[rockhobby]

Looks 66 to me.

 

Doug

[physics-fan3.14]

Good guesses everyone. The is graded NGC MS-66, with a Star for semi-prooflike fields. In hand, it is unquestionably almost-PL, but the large patches of die polish above Monticello prevent it from getting PL.

[brg5658]

Jason, is it as blue in hand as the pictures make it look? I personally love the die polishing lines on this one, as they are mostly parallel. I don't like when die polishing lines are "scratchy" looking or perpendicular to one another.

 

A very pretty nickel! (thumbs u