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Pillar of the Community
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A lamination should show some type of pattern or structure of the internal metal flaws.
Here is a 1924 that split after the strike (laminated in half) . Your pics aren't detailed enough for me to tell if any of the areas that you pointed out have any recognizeabl structure of a lamination.
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Pillar of the Community
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Valued Member
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Got the coin in-hand today, not sure if the attached helps clear anything up! Some of the areas are very deep.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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In my unprofessional opinion.
The red square and oval areas are struck through.
The red circle is an area of lamination.
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Moderator
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given the very straight edges and corners, I would say struck through too (in the boxed in area too and slightly to the right of it as well. Over the date, looks to be a struck through too. But under the chin possibly a well worn lamination.)
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Pillar of the Community
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I agree with Dearborn that this is most likely a struck-through error. More specifically, it looks like it was struck through a folded or crumpled piece of very thin metal.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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Valued Member
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Thanks guys, super cool, my first strike-through!  Is this worth slabbing or just keeping raw? The seller I bought it from told me he's had it for about 20 years. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Definitely not worth the cost of slabbing. Unfortunately laminations are pretty common on nickels. Strike thrus are nice but don't get much of a premium.
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Pillar of the Community
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A Strike-through will not have the details of the braid and knot as we see them. Pre-strike laminations, and struck over that, as see on the Massachusetts Cent, for example  Edited by Oldgrouchyguy
03/06/2023 08:41 am
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Pillar of the Community
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My opinion is that it's all lamination/planchet flaws.
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Pillar of the Community
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Oldgrouchyguy There must be some material present to fill the die for the shape of the design to resolve onto the coin. This is my 1960-D cent that split before it was struck. The design details are missing where there was not enough material to fill the recessed design details of the die. Simply said , if some type of material had not been present to transfer the designs to the coin metal the they would not be there. We're it a lamination with coin metal missing then the design details would not be there (as can be seen on my coin)  |
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Pillar of the Community
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I dont think its a struck through. As pointed out, the braid details would not be there if it were. Whatever was between the planchet and die would keep it from happening. Id have to say very funky laminations that left enough metal to pick up some of the details.
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Valued Member
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Hi All, figured I'd post an update to this discussion. I tried CAC's Grading service for the first time and added this to the mix. It came back as an XF40 Struck-thru! Worth the cost to grade? Probably not but kinda neat to have this slabbed now.  |
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Very nice! Thank you for the update!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Very nice! Errers and Varietys.
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