I found this nickel in my change and noticed right away the interesting patina and natural ageing on the coin. Getting a closer look, it is really stunning. Jefferson has this glare and his eyes picked up the color in an interesting way. The hair and lettering are clean while the back looks brown and rusty.
The "5" looks like it got smeared and I thought at first it was a "3". If it wasn't for the design and date, I could have mistaken this for a much older coin.
The reverse also has an interesting look, almost reddish colored. Some of the detail is very much intact, like the steps and windows of Monticello. The text is sharp also and it really stands out with the darkened background.
Keeping eyes open for interesting circulated coins can make for some good photography and it's fun to find these inexpensive novelties sitting in our loose change.
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Dude! That's super cool. The dent next to the word trust is also cool looking. Usually it's the old coin that make me wonder where they have been but I'd love to know what happened to this one to make it looks so...ghoulish.
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Ghoulish is a perfect word to describe this monstrosity.
That's some proper random staining, I love the 33% Jefferson nickels in the middle 40s. The best nickel is black diamond
I didn't know the buffalo on the nickel had a name! I had to look it up and I found all sorts of interesting stories about "Black Diamond". And what do you do with a famous buffalo? YOU SLAUGHTER AND EAT HIM!
Turns out my family owns a highly sought after paper note which also features "Black Diamond" on the back. They don't make money the way they used to, that's for sure.
It's a nice zombie coin. At first that's what I thought it was, then realized it's a portray of a former president !
Whatever this coin has been through, it did indeed zombify the former president.
The funny thing about the cent coins is that probably their making is cost more than their nominal value. Even the art on them worth more. Actually the art on these coins may worth more than some of the modern paintings. Some people say that their vomit looks better than some of the modern paintings, while other people are paying millions for those modern paintings. So nowadays the value is very relative.
A Nickel's worth of nickel is actually more than a nickel! Although modern US nickels are mostly copper. However, there's lots of Canadian nickels that are 100% nickel depending on the type.
Art is very subjective, although there are some universal standards of aesthetics that should always be upheld. In the art world, there's a lot of pretending - instead of "The emperor has no cloths on" it's "the artist has no talent." But nobody wants to speak up, once millions of dollars has been exchanged for the garbage!
Nice coin with great patina! It's fun to see recent coinage with nice toning!
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I agree, it's a rare and unusual find. It's not even that old!
Every time I go to the bank I usually ask for fresh rolls of coins, ones not yet sorted and will browse through. I've found some cool stuff over the years, of course most of the time you just end up with extra spare change!
I used to bring home $500 of half-dollars to search for silver. I've had limited success, until my local bank had to special order them and got a little annoyed with me. Ironically, modern banks do not like coins!
They hate coins! Too much work to keep in stock. I used to go through and sort for silver but gave up several years ago, just so little was left out there. If you lived in Vegas I bet you could have less trouble finding them since the casinos all keep them in stock for blackjack payouts. Fortunately I don't live there!
I visited Vegas many years ago, there were old nickels worn down flat from the 1920's and 1930's that have probably been cycling around in machines for that long! I don't think slots in Vegas even use actual nickels anymore.
Yeah, no more machines that even take coins. You put in bills and play penny slots or any other. Payouts don't come in coins either, only printed out electronic ticket you take to the cashier. Not like the Vegas of old!
Jefferson doesn't appear quite scary enough or maybe I've watch way too many Zombie flicks by now.
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I suppose he could be scarier... it's just those penetrating eyes.
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Scary!!!!