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Valued Member
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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You can have a brockage, but this is just a blank planchet.
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Valued Member
 Canada
245 Posts |
Oh! I was confused by the first pic and thought it had the queen on one side and blank on the other... silly me!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Some where out there, is a 2000 quarter with the queen only, I have the 2000 family reverse only brockage. At first I thought this was the missing half but no luck.
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Valued Member
Canada
293 Posts |
Hmm....an "extremely rare" mint mistake? For only $2.99. I think they'd like you to believe it's something else than it really is.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
535 Posts |
Add it to the shipping and you are looking at $22 for a blank.
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Moderator
 Australia
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As for the theoretical question posed by the OP: no, you can't have a coin "struck on one side only". You can have a brockage (which bears a mirror-incuse depiction of the opposite side) and you can have a capped die (here a coin gets stuck on one die and repeatedly hammered into place). You can even have yourself a split planchet, with the other side all rough, torn metal. But what you can't have is a nice, neat perfectly formed image of one side and a blank planchet-like surface on the other. The creation of a coin requires it to be smashed between two dies and if one of the dies is missing completely, there's nothing for the other die to smash against. Truly uniface coins can only come about if someone in the mint deliberately creates a "blank die" and inserts it into a coin press.
A far more likely explanation for any coins that seem to be "struck on one side only" is that someone has ground off the missing side, post-mint.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The coin is a "uniface Reverse" - another
planchet was laying in the striking chamber when this coin
was struck - so the other coin will have a uniface obverse.
If it's genuine it does not appear to be machined off it was well worth what I paid.
I had one of these already. Still looking for the ship to determine the exact year
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2427 Posts |
Gentlemen, what we have here is a Type 2 blank planchet.
Both sides are blank.
The Obverse you see is for comparison only.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
532 Posts |
I stand corrected Darryl. I thought it was a side by side.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
5324 Posts |
I have asked the seller, it's a blamk planchet. was hoping this was the other half of the family quarter.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Is it possible for two planchets together to be fed into the press, thus producing two single sided coins, one with an obverse only, one with a reverse only?
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Valued Member
Canada
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Thanks for the cool details, Sap! One of these days, I will try to study the production process of modern coins.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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One of our member here, has a few dimes on ebay now that are unifaced coins, you have a process like sel 619 said to produce a one sided coin. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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 AUSTRALIA SAP is right even for canada ....... Edited by persistnt
03/19/2014 12:19 am
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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One sided coin would be extremely rare. Something like this on ebay is definately worth it. Not even close to being a quarter. |
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