5c 2005-P Struck With Plating Error

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SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10459 Posts	Posted Today 1H 17M ago Picked up this one last month, courtesy of an old friend who plucked it out of a mint-wrapped roll. It's a cool plating error. I spoke with my connection from the plating plant at the Winnipeg mint, they call planchets with this effect as "tiger blanks". At some point either copper salts or copper solution was in contact with the nickel top layer when it shouldn't have been, leaving the copper&-coloured blemish on the surface of the coin. Technically, it is minor error, but quite visually appealing. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff

HondoB Bedrock of the Community United States 25399 Posts	Posted Today 49M ago That's a very cool looking coin, SPP-Ottawa! Evidently there's not much separation between the copper-plating and nickel-plating areas of the plant. Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 189125 Posts	Posted Today 33M ago Amazing! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
johnnysprawl Pillar of the Community Canada 1622 Posts	Posted Today 7M ago Pretty neat! Report this Post to the Staff
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