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Valued Member
United States
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Weighs 2.9 grams. A little smaller in diameter than a memorial or wheat.   |
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Valued Member
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Is there any hint of an image on either side, or any wear marks on the piece? I am not sure, but there appears to be remnants of a raised edge in the first image, at the top.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Looks like a slug knocked out of an electrical box - except for two things: slugs are usually steel, and they usually have two tabs where they were attached to the box.
Okay, that was a lot of help. Never mind.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Please show a shot of the disk side on. What I am seeing in the first pic,along the edge is burrs.Burrs could be from grinding.
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Valued Member
United States
318 Posts |
Where did you find this? Just curious if you got it in a bag of pennies or something.
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Valued Member
 United States
136 Posts |
Sorry it took so long to answer back. I took two views back and front. I took them with a 60X usb microscope. I purchased this on ebay. That was before I started looking at the forum. I would probably would not purchased it today. I forget what I paid for it. It was advertised as a blank pennny with no rims. The sides are the same color as the obverse and reverse. It does not appear to have been altered.   |
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Valued Member
United States
136 Posts |
2nd view |
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Valued Member
United States
318 Posts |
I am going out on a limb and saying you have purchased 2.9 grams of copper.
Make a game of it. Keep it in your pocket and bet drinks with it. Flip the coin and say Loser buys the next round! Then before the other guy can answer and it's still spinning in the air yell "not heads!". Then show it to him and argue you are right*.
*not responsible for punches to the nose.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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This irem is a blank, not a flan.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Slug. A flan would be the same size or possibly even slightly larger than a finished coin I believe.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21788 Posts |
The term 'planchet' could be used instead of 'flan'.
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Valued Member
United States
136 Posts |
Could this have been cut out with a dime die? They are about the same size. The blank is just a hair bigger in diameter than the dime. If the rim would be raised on the blank, they would be about the same seze.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I don't think it would be larger than a cent before being struck because once a coin is struck it will expand in size to the size of the collar. If it were bigger than the collar already it wouldn't fit so a unstruck planchet should be smaller. Even though I am no error expert what I believe you have is a unstruck planchet that was hung in the hopper and dislodged after the fact. It didn't even go through the edging process that turns the edges. There are error experts on this forum so please do not take my word for it, this is just my opinion of what I see in the pictures
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Rest in Peace
United States
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It could be a planchet for a foreign coin. Does the US mint still make foreign coins?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It is too small to be a cent blank, both size and weight. Dent blanks start slightly larger than finished coins and are reduced in diameter by the upsetting mill that raises the "proto rim" prior to striking. Planchets are not that much smaller than finished coins, if any smaller at all. It is possibly a blank for a foreign coin, but almost certainly not one for any U.S. coin. If it is about the same thickness as a cent then it is probably copper or mostly copper, based solely on color.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The term 'planchet' could be used instead of 'flan'. Planchet is the term for it after the rim is upset and it is ready for striking. Quote:
Planchets are not that much smaller than finished coins, if any smaller at all. Planchets are slightly smaller so they can drop easily into the coining chamber. If they were the same size any slight tipping of the planchet as it dropped in would cause it to jam and result in mis-strikes. |
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Posted 01/07/2012 7:17 pm
