What is up w/ this nickel?

[BigWaveDave]

Got this in my change today...good shape for a 46, but it looks cracked. What do you think?, is this worth getting slabbed?

 

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[DeepseekerADS]

I don't know Dave. I'd think it is a flaw in the stamping/planchette versus later damage. The crack on the front is much longer than the crack on the back. What's a nickel anyway? I'd slab it

 

[enamel7]

That nickel has been damaged post mint. Those are cuts not cracks.
HH
enamel7

 

[BigWaveDave]

E....Thanks, w/ all due respect, these aint cuts

 

[enamel7]

That nickel has been cut into. If it was like that when struck the voids would have been filled in due to pressure. I has been cut at an angle. Maybe Matthew will weigh in soon.

 

[BigWaveDave]

I don't know...it is pretty clean, like it has been held onto and not spent for a super long time

 

[TypeCoin971793]

I don't know...it is pretty clean, like it has been held onto and not spent for a super long time

That doesn't matter. Someone could have pulled it from circulation in 1948, tested a sharp object or saw on it, and put it in that coin jar and forgot about it. That's what I think happened. The crack looks like an incision, especially on the obverse, with the raised metal on the angle of the cut and the cutaway on the rim at the point on incision.

 

[bigscores]

I don't know if I should be or right now.

BigWaveDave, it's an error, not damage, you are correct. Cracked planchet, likely cracked post strike as a result of a crappy alloy mix with impurities in it. Interesting example, put that sucker in a 2x2. Nice find.

 

[enamel7]

Go ahead, send it in and prove us wrong. No money outa my pocket. Let us know the results.
HH
enamel7

 

[huntsman53]

I don't know if I should be or right now.

BigWaveDave, it's an error, not damage, you are correct. Cracked planchet, likely cracked post strike as a result of a crappy alloy mix with impurities in it. Interesting example, put that sucker in a 2x2. Nice find.

I agree! Cracked Planchet or Split Planchet whichever you want to call it, although Split Planchet normally refers to an entire separation of part of the thickness of the Planchet. I would say that the Planchet was cracked before striking and the pressure exerted during the striking (minting) process caused the crack to open a little more.


Frank

 

[bigscores]

Go ahead, send it in and prove us wrong. No money outa my pocket. Let us know the results.
HH
enamel7

Why? It's not worth certifying. But it's a real error. Feel free to not believe me if you want to, but I know what I'm talking about. I've handled plenty of error coins, more than most, I'm sure. OP, if you want to be 100% sure it's real, drop a message to Fred Weinberg (You can google his email address) and I'm sure he'll confirm it's a cracked planchet, or maybe something fancier.

 

[enamel7]

I was just responding to the original question. He wanted to know if it was worth getting slabbed.

 

[BigWaveDave]

Thanks guys I appreciate the feed back... I got a dealer who owes me a solid on a side job I did for him a while back...He is however not too quick on things like this, so it may take a while. Slab-worthy? I think..why not?!

 

[enamel7]

Well, the reason why not would be if the cost of slabbing is more than the value of the coin. For instance I would never send a 1998 wam in circulated condition to be slabbed.
HH
enamel7

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Thats so weird...I had posted a coin that has the same damage on it

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/coins/397706-1946-war-nickel.html

 

[BigWaveDave]

That is a coincidence, is it compromised on the side and back as well?

 

[Mr Tuff]

neat...

 

[coinguy*matthew]

100% planchet crack a true error my friend congrats. To get a little more in depth if it was to have been cut it most surely would be straight and not in a zig zag line also it would have removed far more material.

Here is another example strikingly similar.

 

[Pointman]

I agree with a cracked planchett. If it was deliberately cut post mint, it would look more "cut into" and less look like a clean fracture under the surface of the coin. If it looked like the fracture was more defined and started from the extreme surface, then it would probably be cut.

 

[enamel7]

100% planchet crack a true error my friend congrats. To get a little more in depth if it was to have been cut it most surely would be straight and not in a zig zag line also it would have removed far more material.

Here is another example strikingly similar.

Well then I stand corrected. When I'm wrong I say so. My apologies. Nice find! I would have thought the pressure of the dies would have compressed the crack.
HH
enamel7