Half Of A Canadian Penny

to CCF.I think it's a brockage or a die cap. Nice and would have a nice premium to.
John1

Looks like a split planchet but a weight in grams is critical to reach further conclusions on this error/ piece. A brockage is another possibility. Weight?

There are many here that know far far more about errors than me. But I think that this is as John1 and Colonial John have said....a capped die/brockage. A penny got stuck in the die that strikes the reverse so on the side that was supposed to be struck with the with the reverse die it was instead struck with the obverse side of the stuck coin. Hence the image is weak and backwards.

Again I may be wrong in my interpretation, but the coin I put up in a recent error thread called I bought Myself a Chrstmas Present is a very similar thing. Perhaps in my case the stuck cent had been struck so many times that it became very thin and allowed the die to transmit the proper, though in a ghostly way.

A better picture would help us out big time!
Welcome to the forum seawind!

Thank you for your response. The coin feels about half the weight of a regular penny. I will endeavor to obtain a weight.
Not sure how to provide larger pics, used optimizer to reduce photo size for posting. Any suggestions? I am new to this type of format.

Larry.

seawind
Try putting it in your scanner, not as good as a photo but they work out ok.

Considering the scale gave a standard one cent piece a weight of 2 grams this could easily be a foreign planchet too. I'm not saying it is. Given the ballpark weight and size and the portrait year range of HRH maybe a UAE planchet brockage.

It's an interesting error. A jewelry store should be able to give you the weight to a tenth of a gram. What that will help do is decide if it's the right size for a foreign smaller planchet or it's a split, the latter being more desirable I assume? Someone else who collects errors can answer that.

I was able to obtain an accurate weight at a jewelry store. A regular penny weighs 2.2 grams and the "half penny weighs 1.0 grams. As far as larger images of the coin, I did send some to a moderator of this site after the removal of my e-mail address to prevent spam. The moderator's user name is on my work computer and escapes at the moment. I am not able to locate a list of moderators for this site. Perhaps the moderator could make theses images available on request?