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New Member
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New here so I figured I start by showing off one of my favourite items in my collection. This is a 1996 toonie struck on a full nickel planchet. I've heard of other theories on these beings "tests" "backdoor jobs" or "foreign planchets" but in my opinion all of the evidence points towards these being genuine unpunched toonie planchets due to the composition size and that the other few examples I've been able to track down were found in bank rolls discrediting the "trial strike" and "backdoor jobs" theories. Finding credible information on these considering none have come to auction and very few people have talked about them has been slow so feel free to chime in with any information you may have about these.  
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Valued Member
Canada
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Wow! Nice error coin!
Welcome to the forum!
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Maybe SPP-Ottawa can help, he has a friend who specializes in toonies.
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Moderator
 United States
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Very nice!   to the Community! |
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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Yes, I'm going to send an email to the "toonie King". I won't tell you our name for him, but it fits.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's a very cool toonie error! |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Awesome error coin! Errers and Varietys.
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Valued Member
Canada
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The coin on the photos seems to be a "Specimen" that was issued in a blue folder as well as in various sets with stamps and banknotes.
It has distinct matte fields, frosted crown on the obverse and ultra-frosted bear on reverse. The rims are well defined and the ring around the core is wide.
The coin was issued in large quantities (100000+) and many of those re-entered circulation.
The mint has never called it "specimen" officially, though. It was "Uncirculated".
Also, the quality of the coin was not consisted and some (late stage dies?) have less frosting and only slightly matte fields.
The distinct feature is the wide ring around the core.
I'd guess that the un-punched planchet was used during the specimen batch manufacturing.
It is still a mistery how did it avoid being struck through the core piece, because the assembly of canadian planchet business strike coins was/is going in the strike chamber.
Another guess: the mint used different type of presses for Proof coins - solid planchets for silver and pre-assembled planchets for Nickel Proof.
Maybe they used pre-assembled planchets for the specimen coins as well, which would make this type of error more probable because an un-punched blank would easily skip the assembly step.
A side note: for some reason german planchet toonies have a very narrow, almost non existent inner core ring on the obverse.
Though, my sample pool is not big enough to make a conclusion.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Interesting coin.
Looks like it was struck by specimen dies as pointed out by mice45.
Waiting for more experts to chime in.
But German dies in your title makes absolutely no sense, it's meaningless.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
Edited by DBM
Yesterday 6:34 pm
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New Member
 Canada
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@DBM I used "German dies" in my title to refer to the strike because what gives "German planchets" their distinct look is their dies rather than their planchets so it's a personal peeve of mine to call them that lol.
And @Mice45 I don't believe it's a specimen because specimens of this era have a more frosted field paired with mirror like devices rather than cameo evident by the polar bear but I think you are right with the pre assembled planchets.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Have you XRF the insert part of this coin as pure nickel ?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Look up PCGS # 57234869 nickel 7.5 gram on a foreign planchet, there is no known 7.5 gram foreign planchet pure nickel that I know of, but the RCM could have produced a private token or medal at this time. This coin is mine and have seen around 4 or 5 examples of the 1996 type |
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