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I had a thought. A quarter punched from half dollar stock... How about a quarter punched from Susan B. Anthony dollar stock? |
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Quote:How about a quarter punched from Susan B. Anthony dollar stock? A Kennedy is 2.1 mm thick, the SBA is 2.0 mm, so that would weigh even less. |
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Since when do planchets have reeded edges?  |
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I don't think most think it's a planchet, but a damaged coin of some sort.
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I really want to see the coin over coin shot I asked for. I think that would help a lot here.
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Count the reeds. A quarter has 119, a Kennedy half 150, a Susan B. Anthony dollar has 133. Those reeds are fat and flat, which suggests to me that they might have also been sanded to some degree. Coins can be shrunk in a variety of ways, including acid and electricity. To me, this looks like the faces got sanded off a cupronickel clad sandwich in preparation for making a medal, love token, or decorative piece. I also wouldn't rule out a 40% Kennedy silver half dollar that had the silver stripped via a chemical process, then the leftover copper medallion was worked on in the shop. |
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I don't think most think it's a planchet, but a damaged coin of some sort. My statement was directed towards the OP, ........... Quote:
Could it be an experimental planchet unstruck from the year 2000? |
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Edited by uruman
01/28/2025 12:03 am
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Thank you, uruman! Wow, so pretty much spot on....
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Quote:Count the reeds. A quarter has 119, a Kennedy half 150, a Susan B. Anthony dollar has 133. To be clear, this will not help if the blank was punched from the wrong stock, since the coin would still be struck and reeded as normal. But... Quote:
Coins can be shrunk in a variety of ways, including acid and electricity. ...Counting reeds may be helpful here.  Quote:
I also wouldn't rule out a 40% Kennedy silver half dollar that had the silver stripped via a chemical process, then the leftover copper medallion was worked on in the shop. I doubt it came from a 40% silver anything. The core is 20% silver, which is enough to look grey compared to the red/brown of pure copper. |
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Thank you, uruman! Wow, so pretty much spot on.... I agree. This comes back to the original question, is this an experimental (or foreign) planchet? Although, the presence of reeding would indicate it was struck. |
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nfine , that's a nice research you done , looks to me it's
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Here's a very similar item reported March of 2015 on CCF. Well done!  Ken said it. I believe it. That settles it!  Quote:
These turned up the Detroit area and I suppose other places in the country until the perpetrators were caught. These were made in Canada to be used in US venting machines. Around here I see them show up at our CONECA tables every so often in Michigan. Saw one there last year. At one time it seemed like every dealer that had a binder containing some "oddities" had one of these for sale. These go back at least as far as the mid 1980s. http://goccf.com/t/201920#3144665 |
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Nice job, nfine! That was some good digging.  A slug never crossed my mind. -makecents-
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