Ever seen a counterfeit nickel?

[amc rulz]

I dug this nickel last fall, in a ballfield in use for 100 years. A circus also set up there. The IH was dug at the "invisible school house" (torn down years ago). I re posted because recently i figgerd out how to use the digi-camera. Good luck all,

amc

 

[Jason illinois]

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[drkp88]

Don't know but I did dig up about a dozen nickel slugs near an old farmhouse a few months ago.
Bruce in Ct

 

[John - Maryland]

BROCKAGE
A brockage error can only occur when there are two coins involved. One of the coins involved will always be a struck coin which has not ejected properly. That struck coin will find its way back between the dies and will be struck next to a blank planchet which was fed into the collar. The image of that first struck coin will be impressed into that side of the blank planchet. The result will be a second coin which has images of the first coin impressed into it. Those images will be pressed into the coin and the image will be in reverse. This incuse sunken image is known as a brockage.

 

[utahshovelhead]

Just reading your post and thought you might be interested to know about my finding some 40 plus slugs in the dirt under an old torn down shed. several of them were lead but someone had hamered a real nickle into the lead and made fake buffalo nickles out of them. The others were lead and the size of a nickel but have a dimond design on them. When I asked a local dealer about this find he told me that he has seen many fake nickles made for the old slot machines that used to be in the bars. Evidentely I had found someones stash of forged slot machine coins. I got a big surprise that there were slot machines and bars in the small towns here in Utah in the early days. I still have the collection of "slugs" but if you ask me I wouldnt trade a wooden nickle for them.

Good luch to you
utahshovelhead

 

[Andrus(ut)]

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