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Looking through a bag of mostly LWC my fiance had collected over the years with her grandfather. As it turns out he was an avid coin collector. Found 2 (labeled A and B) Type 1 planchets (blanks) and 1 Type 2 planchet. All three weigh 3.12 grams. So I think their real. I thought they were a cool find so I decided to post them.    |
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Wow, it always amazes me how such a massive error could escape the mint. Very cool!
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Cool indeed.  |
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Type 2 blank planchets were included by the mint in several of the uncirculated coin sets - you have six spaces in the cellophane and had to stick SOMETHING in the extra slot. Also used copper P and D tokens some years.
Type 1s probably just found on the floor and tossed in the outgoing bin by a worker trying to be helpful.
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Well, the mint did give out blank planchets too if you took a mint tour.
Edited by coin197
06/20/2017 10:43 am
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Looks like 2 blanks and 1 planchet (bottom pic). Blanks are just the flat round stampings, planchets are blanks that have been run through an upset mill giving the blank a
pre-strike rim.
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Those are quite cool!  |
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Wow, it always amazes me how such a massive error could escape the mint. Very cool! It's really not an error. It's just a planchet. |
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Thank you all for the positive and helpful comments.
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Posted 06/20/2017 07:43 am
