Has anyone seen this before?

[Mason254]

Has anyone ever seen or heard of a 1865 shield nickel to my knowledge they were not produced until 1866 so while looking thru a old container of mine found a 1865 5 shield nickel but I cannot pull up any information on it so your input will be very appreciated 

[Mason254]

[Conder101]

Pattern 1865 shield nickels do exist but I would say this is not one of them.

[Jason Abshier]

Kinda hard for me to see the date pretty worn down, that last digit doesn’t look like a 5 . Perhaps 1866 with last digit 6 being worn badly looks like a 5, or 1868 ? Doesn’t look like a 5 to me I looked at pictures on my IPhone maybe a better images on iPad or my laptop .. 

[Greenstang]

I enlarged and edited the photo but still hard to tell.

Looks like it may be an 8.

[jgrinz]

11 hours ago, Mason254 said:

Has anyone ever seen or heard of a 1865 shield nickel to my knowledge they were not produced until 1866 so while looking thru a old container of mine found a 1865 5 shield nickel but I cannot pull up any information on it so your input will be very appreciated 

 

Well its pretty easy to deduce as RAYS version was only 66-67

It does not look like a 7 - so I would think 1866 is the answer

[Mohawk]

3 hours ago, jgrinz said:

Well its pretty easy to deduce as RAYS version was only 66-67

It does not look like a 7 - so I would think 1866 is the answer

I'm with you.....1866.

[skippy]

It's a normal but worn 1866.