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Entry Details
PCGS Number: 3841 Coin Date: 1883 Denomination (Short): 5c Denomination (Long): 5 Cents Variety: No Cents Desg: MS Composition: 75% copper; 25% nickel Mintage: 5,474,300 Strike Type: Business Coinage Type: Liberty head nickel Coinage Years: 1883 Mint Location: Philadelphia Diameter: 21.2 Weight (Grams): 5 Weight (Ounces): 0.1608 Designer: Charles E. Barber Edge: Plain Obverse Description: Lady Liberty with the word LIBERTY on her crown faces left with 13 stars around the periphery and the date positioned at the bottom center. Reverse Description: Large V (roman numeral 5) is centered in the design surrounded by an ornate wreath with UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and E PLURIBUS UNUM around the periphery. General Notes: The first year of the V Nickels in which this issue had the word CENTS replaced by the phrase E PLURIBUS UNUM. This change became a danger to potential alterations (gold plated to look like a Half Eagle) thus ending the design in well under a year. This issue of the Liberty Nickel is common from the poorest of grades up to the gem level, leaving just the finest of gems with any scarcity at all.
PCGS #: 3841 NGC ID: 2772
