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Valued Member
United States
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Is this Buffalo showing laminations only or are there other things going on here? Lot's of complexity going on...  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2376 Posts |
Without a pic of the reverse, post strike damage can't be ruled out.
From what I can see with this one photo, a strike through is quite possible
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Valued Member
 United States
187 Posts |
Here's a pic of the reverse  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2376 Posts |
Not really seeing any evidence of a lamination. It looks to be a very interesting struck through. Nice !
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Valued Member
United States
187 Posts |
Thanks for looking stoneman, this seems to have our other forum alumni mostly stumped! I'm a noob with both strike-thru's and major lams, but I was thinking it could possibly be both? Maybe the strike-thru caused enough distress to surfaces that it triggered the lam? The shelf-like step down on the left side is super interesting and the depth of the impression I've never seen before.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2376 Posts |
A lamination should show some type of pattern or structure of the internal metal flaws.
Here is a 1924 that split after the strike (laminated in half) . Your pics aren't detailed enough for me to tell if any of the areas that you pointed out have any recognizeabl structure of a lamination.
img]uploaded/Stoneman227/20220727_1924-d-split-bb.jpg[/img
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Valued Member
United States
187 Posts |
Got the coin in-hand today, not sure if the attached helps clear anything up! Some of the areas are very deep.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
579 Posts |
In my unprofessional opinion.
The red square and oval areas are struck through.
The red circle is an area of lamination.
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Moderator
 United States
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given the very straight edges and corners, I would say struck through too (in the boxed in area too and slightly to the right of it as well. Over the date, looks to be a struck through too. But under the chin possibly a well worn lamination.)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree with Dearborn that this is most likely a struck-through error. More specifically, it looks like it was struck through a folded or crumpled piece of very thin metal.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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Valued Member
United States
187 Posts |
Thanks guys, super cool, my first strike-through!  Is this worth slabbing or just keeping raw? The seller I bought it from told me he's had it for about 20 years. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2757 Posts |
Definitely not worth the cost of slabbing. Unfortunately laminations are pretty common on nickels. Strike thrus are nice but don't get much of a premium.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
630 Posts |
A Strike-through will not have the details of the braid and knot as we see them. Pre-strike laminations, and struck over that, as see on the Massachusetts Cent, for example  Edited by Oldgrouchyguy
03/06/2023 08:41 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My opinion is that it's all lamination/planchet flaws.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Oldgrouchyguy There must be some material present to fill the die for the shape of the design to resolve onto the coin. This is my 1960-D cent that split before it was struck. The design details are missing where there was not enough material to fill the recessed design details of the die. Simply said , if some type of material had not been present to transfer the designs to the coin metal the they would not be there. We're it a lamination with coin metal missing then the design details would not be there (as can be seen on my coin)  |
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Posted 03/02/2023 08:20 am
