1883 "No Cents" Liberty V Nickels - Borderline Uncirculated Sun Yat-sen 1994 $5

1994      $5

and the face value of 1000 DRAM

oval female portrait below

the more common of the two types of 1883 Liberty V Nickels

only slightly less well-struck-up than a recent Heritage auction coin (NGC graded both coins identically) which sold for $1

1883 "No Cents" Liberty V Nickels - Borderline Uncirculated Sun Yat-sen 1994 $5This nickel, the more common of the two types of 1883 Liberty V Nickels, is occasionally referred to as the racketeer nickel. When the 1883 was initially released it omitted the word CENTS on the reverse having replaced it with E PLURIBUS UNUM. This left an opening for enterprising ne'er do wells to attempt to pass the coin off as a $5 Liberty gold coin by plating the coins in a gold colored metal. The practice ended up being widespread enough that