Quarter Struck Through Thin Cent Layer

Not struck through a cent.
Struck through something the same size as a cent.
Nice find.

In any case, an interesting error of sorts. Should get plenty of discussion here.

The rim area is held in place by the collar. It's hard to tell from the picture but the struck through area does follow across the rim area. The blank planchet was thin enough to allow the rim area to be struck up although not as strong. The best evidence of this is to look at the top rim area on the photo of the dime laying across the subject coin.

Thanks for your opinion but I wasn't posting this for comments to whether its an error or not. I was posting for people to see something unusual. I have been involved in errors for over 30 years and this struck through example is a relatively common error type, especially in US coins where clad layers split apart from clad planchets and make their way into the striking chamber. The scarcity part is that its struck through what I believe is a thin cent planchet. The surface looks exactly how a struck through error of this type is supposed to look like. I am 100% sure of the error type and 99% that is struck through a thin cent planchet. Most Canadian error collectors are not real familiar with this type since it occurs more often on US Error coins. Google "struck through clad layer error" and I am sure you will see other types like this one.

DBM....thanks for your input but I never said the Canadian coins were. I was only using the US clad layer coinage as examples of how this error type can occur and what is looks like. Since this error type is much scarcer on Canadian coinage, I don't have any Canadian examples to reference. I am well familiar with coin specifications for both US and Canada coinage, primarily from specializing in off metal/wrong planchets errors.

I would send a pm to Mike Diamond. I'm sure he would have insite.

Here is a close up of the quarter strike through as well as images of a Lincoln Cent I had in my collection that was split before struck. I don't have an example of a split planchet canadian cent either struck or unstuck so the Lincoln Cent is the best example I have to illustrate that a planchet can be split to less than its normal thickness. The cent planchet that was involved with my quarter would have to have been pretty thin such as caps that strike late state capped die brockages.

Pretty nifty.