Calling all coin experts....Help....

[NealNoIN]

Is this the 1883/2 shield nickel or not. Sure looks like the ones I see on Ebay. Don't know when or where I dug it. I'm just spending a cold winter morning looking at some old digs.
Thanks for your help.

 

[minelab locust]

it appears to be one of the varieties of the 3 over 2 that i have seen ...not sure which one though as there seems to be many..including coins with the 3 actually re-cut into the coin......hope that helps a little and if somebody on here knows better then you can disregard what i have said...as I'm no expert...just my opinion.

 

[Jamie(MI)]

n/t

 

[minelab locust]

n/t

 

[BlackX]

I'm certainly not an expert either. Heck, I hadn't even heard of this error before. But since it sounded interesting, I googled for a bit and found this page:
http://www.shieldnickels.net/1883_2/1883_2.html
and checked it out for a while. Going by that, I'd think it seems pretty clear that it's not an overdate but it may be the filled 2 variety. (The spacing on yours seems pretty clearly to be from '82 and the examples of the 3 over 2 varieties seem to have clear 3's but remants of the 2's showing elsewhere.)

 

[sangamon]

...with some nice photos. i'll have to agree with _Rich_MA; yours looks like the "filled 2" variety:

shieldnickels.net/1883_2

 

[NH Bob]

n/t

 

[digitrich]

That NE curve of the 2 could be the NE curve of an 8. I just don't like the opening on the NW corner, that should be closed, but if the 7 was shifted slightly lower than the 8 and west of it, then yes it easily could be a 8 over 7. Hard to tell from a photo without a loupe.

 

[digitrich]

Wait a sec, I am thinking the 8 over 7 Indian, this is a nickel. It's still possible, I guess

 

[NH Bob]

That's what fooled me. There shouldn't be an 87 or 78.

 

[taropatch]

Yes that is what it looks like. If you email me good pics of the front and back I can have it graded for you by more experienced collectors.
Try to use "super macro" mode on your camera. "Super macro" is usually designated by the flower symbol button.

 

[John - Maryland]

Could be a "Filled" 2 See: http://www.shieldnickels.net/1883_2/1882Filled2_Page2.html

 

[NH Bob]

It looks different than the filled ones I've seen pics of.
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[ronmsr]

Definately looks like 1883/2.
Ron