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5 Cents 'Liberty Nickel' without 'CENTS'
| Issuer | United States Mint |
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| Year | 1883 |
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| Value | 5 Cents (0.05 USD) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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When Charles Barber's new nickel hit circulation in 1883, con artists quickly realized the Roman numeral V on the reverse carried no denomination word. Gold-plating the coins and passing them as five-dollar half eagles became briefly epidemic — the scheme most famously attributed to a deaf-mute hustler named Josh Tatum, though the legal record around him is murky. The Mint corrected the omission within the same year by adding the word CENTS, making the no-CENTS variety a single-year type despite a mintage of over five million pieces.