1970-D 5c Jefferson Nickel Struck on Cent Planchet NGC MS63 RB

1970-D 5c Jefferson Nickel Struck on Cent Planchet NGC MS63 RB

UPC:
Certification:: pcgs
Finish:: Business Strike
Classification:: Mint Error
Circulated/Uncirculated:: uncirculated
Country/Region of Manufacture:: United States
Year:: 1970
Grade:: ms63

NGC 1970-D Jefferson nickel struck on a cent planchet. The Jefferson nickel is struck on a Lincoln cent planchet, and as a result is bronze, and the weight of a cent. Also, portions of the design are missing, due to the smaller diameter of a cent planchet not allowing for the nickel's design to be fully visible.

This error type is dramatic in appearance due to the different color of the coin, being copper-alloy instead of the expected nickel-alloy. An error collection of these can be done by date and mintmark, with a collector seeking on for each date and mint of Jefferson nickel, or simply by acquiring an example of the error for an error type set.

The error likely occurred when a leftover Lincoln cent planchet was mixed into a bin of nickel planchets, and fed, along with the nickel planchets, into a nickel coining press. When the cent planchet was struck by the nickel dies, this off-metal was the result.

A somewhat scarcer date for nickel on cent planchets.

NGC MS63 Red/Brown

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