"Rare dodgy nickel found in Deadwood" Topic

"Coin experts have identified a rare example of an 1883 Racketeer Nickel in a group of coins excavated in the historic Chinatown of Deadwood, South Dakota. The coin was discovered in July of 2001 during one of four excavations of Deadwood's Chinatown district. It was one of more than 200 coins found over the course of four years, most of them Chinese brass pieces. They were all sent to the South Dakota Archeological Research Center in Rapid City to be catalogued only to return to Deadwood in 2009 when City Hall got a new storage facility and laboratory for historic artifacts.

Nobody realized there was a very special coin in the mix until this year. Deadwood Historic Preservation Office had sent photos of the Chinese coins to numismatists Dr. Margie Akin and her husband Kevin Akin last year. They were able to identify all but 16 of them from the pictures. In September of this year, the Akins went to Deadwood where they were asked to examine the 16 mystery coins in person. That done, City Archivist Mike Runge, who is in charge of the city's vast college of documentary and archaeological materials, showed them a small group of US coins that had been found during the digs…"
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Armand

Interesting.

Very cool.

Very cool, however calling it 'rare' seems shaky, as you can buy a good one on eBay today for under $8 USD including shipping.

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Glad you enjoyed it my friends!. (smile).

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Armand