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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I don't know much .. but I would be more inclined to think that this was on a foriegn planchet rather than a canadian one... just my Two Cents |
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Pillar of the Community
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judging by the rim dings and what looks like wear I would say its PMD |
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
9866 Posts |
Weight?
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Valued Member
 Canada
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sorry, I dont have a scale
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Canada
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ok. so I tried to get it weighed along side a regular one at the post office a while back. their scale said 4 gr with no additional decimals. then I tried safeway. theirs sais 5 gr w/ no additional decimals. yesterday I took it to my compounding pharmacy as I figured they would have accurate scales. for the regular one I got 4.51 gr. for this one I got 4.496gr. seems too close to be a different planchet, but arent these supposed to weigh 4.4 gr on the nose? maybe I need to find a different compounding pharmacy. to the naked eye this does not look like PMD. it looks like the metal had a tough time filling the die. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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It looks PMD, the weight of 4.5 g is in tolerance |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I see no evidence of post-strike damage. I would think that the strike was simply a bit too weak.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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Valued Member
Canada
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thank you mike. I imagine weak strikes are not overly valuable in the Coin World, but I like it and will hang on to it. one thing puzzles me though, the rim fit into the die unevenly. what does an upset rim look like before it is put into the dies? not quite uniform? |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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It kind of looks like it was squeezed inside a jewellery bezel of some sort.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Perhaps the collar was a weak "collar deployment" as well.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Agree with pokerman! Put a quarter in a vice and see what happens!
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I see no evidence of post-strike damage. I would think that the strike was simply a bit too weak. Mike, any chance this is the product of a die alignment/adjustment set-up strike? Looks like the die faces were not quite level, some beads are struck fully, some are almost absent. Weak collar die strikes are also typical on any Canadian die set-up strike I have seen... "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 OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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United States
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The reeding isn't fully struck also leading to the weak strike determination.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Put a quarter in a vice and see what happens! Not a vise job..zero evidence. I agree it resembles a light strike with a slightly tilted die and a weak collar strike. Good chance it was a setup strike..IMO Thats what I thought when I first seen it but waited for the experts opinions first. |
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