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Ran across this while sorting my nickels. At first I thought it was a gouge but the raised section makes me question that.
Any ideas?

Guess this is nothing. Oh well.

It looks like some kind of error to me, I would have saved it as such. Have you tried looking for simular errors on ebay to see if any close to it may have sold recently? That is what I do when I find odd or not quite the norm looking coins. I spend a lot of time looking at error coins on ebay, so if I see one simular I will let you know...

I wrote Mike Diamond who is an expert on errors and will post his thoughts when he writes back.
Joe

Good Day-- One of the members at real cent posted this viewtopic.php?f=12&t=13807 is it a die crack and if so what is it worth.

Thanks for all of your help.

Thanks Joe Henry

henrysmedford wrote:I wrote Mike Diamond who is an expert on errors and will post his thoughts when he writes back.
Joe

Good Day-- One of the members at real cent posted this http://realcent.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=13807 is it a die crack and if so what is it worth.

Thanks for all of your help.

Thanks Joe Henry

Hi Joe.

It's just a deep gouge. It's not a mint error.

Mike

How can it be a "gouge" when it is raised?

Z00 wrote:How can it be a "gouge" when it is raised?

You might have a coin shop look at it.

It looks like the metal was pushed up on either side of the gouge to give it a raised look or feel.

The gouge was in the die....and when the die came into contact...the metal filled up the gouge while the die was being pressed down.

Really neat coin!