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Definitely possible. A dime struck on proper thickness clad stock should weigh 3.07 grams. Conder101, I'm sure you were talking about a dime size planchet struck from quarter stock. That's the weight I'm seeing for the coins that have been graded by PCGS and NGC. They show the weight as 2.9 to 3.0 Grams on the slab. I'm sure this coin is well within the mint tolerance range for quarter clad stock punched at the 17.9 millimeter diameter of a '68 dime. NGC Cert 3238194-007 is 2.9 grams. NGC Cert 3052499-002 is 3.0 grams. PCGS Cert 11373019 is 46 grains or 2.98 grams. ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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12/01/2011 11:49 pm
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Conder101, I'm sure you were talking about a dime size planchet struck from quarter stock. Yes the sentence should have read "A dime struck on proper thickness clad quarter stock should weigh 3.07 grams." Edited by Conder101
12/02/2011 10:17 am
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pies are square, but coins are round: pies are round, cornbread are squared. |
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pies are round, cornbread are squared. I never thought a coin forum could make me this hungry! I have to have cornbread now, but I'll have to make the "square" blueberry pie into a blackberry cobbler, they can be square. For now I'll just have to settle for a pop-tart. *sigh* I was doing so well on my diet, too.  ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!!
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pop tart are wreckedangular.
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I can assure you, as a Aussie, I have eaten a commercial SQUARE meat pie! I also have a collection of about 90 square coins, all of different design, probably the largest square coin collection in the World. (Haven't eaten any of these!)  or  ! But then again, who in the World but I, (the perpendicular pronoun), would collect square coins? I must be mad! Incidentally, I agree with Yokozuna's original premise. It certainly seems to be struck from stock intended for another coin, or at least from thicker stock strip than specification. One thing still intrigues me, and that is the roughness of the fields. Edited by sel_69l
12/02/2011 8:30 pm
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That bothered me too, but I figured it might be due to die werar, especially if it struck a bunch of too-thick planchets. There might also be a bit of a railroad rim.
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One thing still intrigues me, and that is the roughness of the fields The quarter stock dimes I've seen and read about all talk about the same type of rough surface. If I had to guess, I'd say that the planchets are too hard. The annealing time and temperature for a quarter and a dime would have to be different because of how thick they are. If the quarter stock was heated to the same specs as a dime should have been, it could be that it is too hard when struck. I've had coins that missed the annealing process and they had the same type of look to the surface as this coin. *Just guessing* ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!!
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I have a thick 1969 dime that I found in circulation. It weighs 2.94 grams or 45.1 grains. I was told it was struck on quarter stock. But I am not 100 percent sure yet. The reference that helped me was the Official CONECA Handbook. Page 39.1 lists the weights of all of the possible clad wrong stock planchet errors. The dime struck on quarter stock is listed as 46.56 to 48.46 grains. But since mine weighs under this I wasn't sure. The certified coins above listed as 2.9 grams make me feel better about mine being struck on quarter stock. The chart in the handbook is old and maybe needs updated.
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pop tart are wreckedangular. Out of pop tarts... I had a banana. That has to be the most non-coin shaped food. I think. Just don't slice them or you're right back to round again. ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!!
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I had a banana. That has to be the most non-coin shaped food. How about a planchet that gets repunched into a moon clip? That would look like a  ! |
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LOL! I just bid on a cent error like this and didn't even think of that. Great observation.
ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!!
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