The Rare and Elusive 1964 PCGS PR68 Jefferson Nickel With Mystery Child Hiding Near Braid

Hello: My name is LeBlond, Gerard LeBlond and I wish to announce the existence of an extremely rare and spectacular coin.

It was encased, some people say "slabbed", by the coin experts at "The Professional Coin Grading Service" (PCGS) a division of the Professional Numismatists Guild, Inc. of Newport Beach, California.

The PCGS designation of the coin is 4196.68/21053382 and is coin 21 in the 20PR series.

It is a 1964 Jefferson proof nickel graded at PR68.

I first discovered this coin in the apartment of a coin dealer on University Boulevard North in Jacksonville, Florida in late summer of 2004.

The next time I saw this amazing coin it was in a private collection in central New York.

While the owner wishes to remain anonymous I was allowed to examine the coin, still encased in its PCGS holder, through the lenses of an Olympus SZH-ILLD Dissection Microscope.

This is what I observed about this unique U.S.A. coin:

First, On the obverse side is the profile of Thomas Jefferson (from a plaster model submitted by artist Felix Schlag who won a public competition to come up with a new design for the nickel in 1938 to replace the Buffalo nickel) along with the words: IN GOD WE TRUST; LIBERTY; 1964.

A single five pointed star separates the word Liberty and the date.

There is no mint mark on the obverse or reverse.

A small oxidation spot was noted under the first letter of the word "WE". This blemish can only be seen by the naked eye if you know where to look and it is very very tiny. To the untrained eye the spot can not be seen.

Most of the letters were well spaced except for the following: the bottom serif of the letter I in "IN" is fused with the bottom serif of the letter N.

In the first letter of GOD is a sharp barb designed into the top-most part of the letter G.

The first three letters of the word LIBERTY are as close as can be without actually touching while the last four letters are well separated from one another.

A close examination of the digit 4 shows a sharp "up-hook" on the right-most extremity of the horizontal line that intersects the vertical line of the number.

I looked at the area between Jefferson's pigtail and his shoulder and there appears to be a design flaw that looks like a child with long hair standing and looking forward at the viewer.

I've never seen such a design on any other coin.

I flipped the encapsulated coin over and examined the reverse side.

The embossed image of the rear of Jefferson's home Monticello is located in the center of the coin.

Above the design's dome are the words "E Pluribus Unum". All the letters are serif-styled and the second word's letter positions are not equally spaced. Rather, the first three letters are pretty much equally spaced but the next three letters, "RIB" are so closely apposed to one another that the bottom serifs of the three letters are fused with one another.

The last two letters of PLURIBUS are separate from one another. The effect is a word that looks like: P L U RIB U S or something like that.

The last word UNUM has the upper part of the first U barely touching the N and the same part of the second U is fused to the left-most upper serif of the M.

The letters of MONTICELLO appearing under the image of the building are well defined and well spaced relative to each other. None of those letters touch any other.

The words FIVE CENTS are oriented in a concave positioning and all the letters are well separated except for the three letters IVE which touch each other at their top serifs.

The words UNITED STATES OF AMERICA are all well separated except at UNI where the U is fused to the N and that N is fused to the I. Also, the RI letters in AMERICA touch each other at the bottom serifs.

The image of Monticello is interesting in that there are 6 well defined steps under microscopic examination. But most interesting is what appears to be a misplaced door knob which appears to be floating near the right edge of the building's 1st floor door. This door-knob is located between the second pillar from the right and the door's right-most edge.

The reason that I say it is an "apparent misplaced door knob" is that, if my recollection serves me well, the center door is really a double door and the door knob should be in the center of the door-way and not on either side.

Next, I visited the PCGS web site at www dot pcgs dot com and headed out to the certification verification page and entered the certification number. In this case I entered "21053382" and the results indicated that this coin is indeed an authentically graded and slabbed coin by PCGS.

In summary, this is an amazing coin.

It is beautiful and unique.

It has physical characteristics that have been documented (in this report) and are peculiar and special to this particular coin.

It's value is based on the following attributes: 40 year coin; slabbed to protect it; outstanding example of a well preserved proof coin; it has a distinctive provenance and has fame/notoriety/history that is doucmented.

Here are some other physical properties of this fantastic-one-of-a-kind rarity:

Metal Composition: 25% Nickel and 75% Copper

Weight: 5 grams

Diameter: 21.21 mm

Thickness: 1.95 mm

Physical Features Along Outer Edge: None and no reeds.

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P.S. If you ever come across one of the following Jefferson nickels hold on to them:
a) an issue of 1939 with the inscriptions MONTICELLO and FIVE CENTS doubled, and several overmintmarks such as the 1949-D over S, the 1954-S over D, and 1955-D over S.