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Today we have the 1969 S US Nickel or 5 Cents
Also called the the San Francisco mint Jefferson nickel from 1969
as you can see on the left here it says In God We Trust it's a little ( a lot!) worn over here
it says Liberty there is a star this is 1969 and then it's then S for the San
Francisco Mint and down here at the bottom we have the FS
and that's for Felix Schlag who was the engraver of this coin so that's his initials down there at the bottom, the FS
when we lookat this coin the image we see Jefferson's facing to the left
and we see this kind of funny little thing here
it's a little bit of extra metal right above his nose and that's not not any
dirt or anything on there that's actually a kind of a drop of metal that
you can see right above his nose and that's just something that happens
sometimes in the minting process you get these little extra bits of metal
they kind of stick out and sometimes they're in kind of funny places or weird places
and this one is an extra bit of metal but what really caught my eye about this is
I was I was looking through my pocket change and I found this and I said
and this is how it looked to me (Makes the coin look smaller under magnification) when I got in my pocket change I said what's the mint
mark on there and and that's you know with my eyes that's about all I could
see so I kind of went back and forth nice I'm just gonna get a magnifying
glass out and so I magnified it up a little bit and I got it and I said well
I still don't know what the mint mark is I know it's not Philadelphia because
they didn't mint him in Philadelphia that year and you know if they had there
would be no mark there because Philadelphia didn't start marking a P until 1980 I think. I know, well I don't think it's Denver because Denver
has a D and the D doesn't isn't quite shaped like that the Denver Mint minted
203 million 1969 D nickels so I said well maybe they made a mistake and then
I kind of blew it up and I said well no now that looks more like an S right and
the San Francisco mint minted 123 million
coins with the s-mint mark plus two point nine million proofs
well this isn't the proof I mean for one thing the proof would probably never come through with
extra materials on it and kind of a funky S like that it it it's just very
very unlikely it would come through an a proof set So, I've looked through
probably 30 or 40 proof sets on the internet and none of them have an S that
look anything like this I've looked at all the error coins that I've seen on the
internet and don't see that S either so let's blow it up all the way and see if
we can kind of determine what happened here so if we tip it up we see that it
clearly is extra material on there that's not something that I added or did
and it's not something that anybody there's a beautiful view of it it's not
something that anybody did by banging the coin around or anything it just came
out kind of a funky S now how could that happen well one of the things that I
considered was that that these coins were all hand punched for the mint marks
prior to 1985 but when I looked up the hand punched I saw that hand punch
means that they punched the S into the die for the all the coins not
that they did it individually and punched it on individual coin so this is
not a hand punched error because if it was there would be all kinds of these
coins out there and maybe there are maybe it was a hand punch error and they
just took every other coin out and and none came into circulation or maybe
people just haven't found them but I don't think so I think what happened
here was it was just a little extra metal and it's somehow got in the stamping die and
is somehow made the S look a lot more different than normal so I said okay
well let me find another 1969 and see if I can find a mint mark on that one so I
found in those 1969 but it's got the D but what this will tell us is
essentially where the mint mark goes and this just makes sense that it would go
right about the air so there's a nine and come over and
there's a nine at D now this isn't a very great de there when you look at it
the old Denver Mint so then I said well I want an S the the closest as I could
find with nineteen seventy and so there's a 1970s and you can see on the
1970s that's a different S this one's a little smashed and I think that came
from you see how it all got smashed along in there and you can't even read
the initials of Felix Schlag here so this S got smashed down but still it should
look like that not like that and I pulled a couple videos and one of them I
looked at was Big D coins who makes these great videos and Big D had a video on the
1969 S and it looks the S looks nothing like this so he has this exact coin except
without the extra tail on it and if you want to look at his video and see that
this is nothing like the the 1969 S that he has in his video now are these
valuable well just in 1969 S has very little value if it's almost uncirculated
you might be able to get into the dollars if it's a proof you maybe get
into the few dollars and there are some that if you can get a like an MS and I
haven't seen a 67 but say MS 66 you might be in the close to the tens of
dollars but this one I haven't seen if any of you out there have anything that
looks like this I'd love to see it from you and I don't know what to call it but
I think I'm just gonna call it the 1969 SNAKE coin
because this looks to me kind of like a rattlesnake as it winds its way around it looks like it's
a rattlesnake kind of ready to strike much more than it looks like an S for
the San Francisco mint alright so they made a 123 million
of them and 2.9 million proofs at San Francisco that year they made
203 million at the Denver Mint and that year
they didn't make any at the Philadelphia Mint but even if they had
they would be no letter there that's all we have today from the DC
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