Unknown Year and Unknown Error (Nickel)

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Unknown Year and Unknown Error (Nickel)

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Hi all,
I am new to both this forum, and to the world of coin collecting. Recently, my grandmother passed away and I am now in possession of a few coins, which seems to have sparked a newfound interest.
However, one of the coins that I have received appears to be an error coin, and although I have tried to do a bit of online research towards finding its error type and value, I am afraid that I do not possess the knowledge or experience to ascertain either without a doubt.
I thought that it might have been a uni-face strike, but, as you can see, imprints of both coin faces can be seen. Also note, the coin is in excellent shape, and doesn`t seem to have been circulated for long, if at all.

(error side)
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Thanks for any help or information!

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A uniface results when two planchets get fed in at the same time. Nothing is imprinted on one side.
At first, I thought capped die, but it looks wrong for that too.
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may i ask ?

is the "MONTICELLO", that shows on the coin,......
A. "backward" (or mirror reverse)?,.....&
B. is the "monticello" inscription, 'incuse' (into the surface) ??
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PALH1 wrote: Sat Sep 23, 2017 9:37 am may i ask ?

is the "MONTICELLO", that shows on the coin,......
A. "backward" (or mirror reverse)?,.....&
B. is the "monticello" inscription, 'incuse' (into the surface) ??
On the error side, the MONTICELLO is both backwards and incuse on the surface. In addition, the outline of Jefferson`s face is incuse as well. Both appear to be "pushed" into the coin surface, on the error side.

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I'm moving his posts to here so we can all see them without going to another site.
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#6 Unread post by Paul »

from your response,.....
i would guess, without seeing the coin first hand, that, there were coins "stacked & compressed together" to create the results you see here ... JMO ... :dunno
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#7 Unread post by Tcoach »

mhonzell wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2017 9:13 am I'm moving his posts to here so we can all see them without going to another site.
Thank you! I wasn`t quite sure how to Embed the images correctly.
PALH1 wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2017 11:42 am from your response,.....
i would guess, without seeing the coin first hand, that, there were coins "stacked & compressed together" to create the results you see here ... JMO ... :dunno
That is what I would assume also....but it is still strange that both of the coin faces appear to be indented/incused onto the same side. I still haven`t been able to find a coin like it, or find anyone that knows anything about it :dunno

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#8 Unread post by Daniel »

Struck through die cap or some call brokage strike. A coin that is struck by a die cap or by another coin on top inside the die chamber, sometimes this other coin sticks to the die and becomes a die cap and then strikes other coins. So there's different stages and this one has some die transference of the obverse as well. http://coinauctionshelp.com/struckthroughcappeddie.html
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possible D ...... :dunno

i would need better pics, or better yet, to hugeeyes /inspect "first hand".
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