Struck on a nail!

[VAB2013]

Can you believe that! https://coins.ha.com/itm/errors/unda.../a/1231-3496.s

[mustbebob]

I had seen that before. Incredible especially when you consider it made it out of the mint.

[VAB2013]

I had seen that before. Incredible especially when you consider it made it out of the mint.

My thought as well Bob, I guess it fell into a tote then got transferred to a bag and wherever the bags go next, the Federal Reserve? then someone found it. Just my guess

[GrumpyEd]

What's amazing is that it's so pristine.

[chuckster125]

WOW!

I can't believe someone paid $42,300.00 dollars for it! ( including buyers premium)

[Petespockets55]

Any chance the metal in this nail would have been hard enough to produce an obv. and rev. clash on the dies?

[GrumpyEd]

Any chance the metal in this nail would have been hard enough to produce an obvious. and rev. clash on the dies?

Clash are from the dies hitting eachother like when there is no planchet.

If they struck something really hard that could create die damage but I think a nail is pretty soft, like striking a steel cent planchet in 1943, might be harder than copper but won't damage a die. Also it looks like it struck up well, a hardened thing that would damage a die probably wouldn't strike up well.

[jfines69]

That is cool looking... What I don't get tho is how the edges are crisp on both the nail and the design elements... I would have expected visible distortion since the diameter is so narrow compared to a 10c planchet???

[Petespockets55]

That is cool looking... What I don't get tho is how the edges are crisp on both the nail and the design elements... I would have expected visible distortion since the diameter is so narrow compared to a 10c planchet???

Looks to be an 8d nail (2-1/4" long) which would be about 3/16" thick. Thicker than a dime.
Speed, pressure and being struck towards the center of the dies, not off to one side may have played a roll in such a clean strike.

[jfines69]

Looks to be an 8d nail (2-1/4" long) which would be about 3/16" thick. Thicker than a dime.
Speed, pressure and being struck towards the center of the dies, not off to one side may have played a roll in such a clean strike.

I agree... It just seems strange to me... I am thinking kind of along the lines as a clipped planchet... The strike in the area of the clip is some what distorted plus a lot of them have the Blakesly effect on the opposite edge... While there would be no Blakesly effect on this one I would have expected at least some distortion at the edges??? Just me thinking out loud here!!!