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 Posted 06/28/2007  02:30 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Morganator to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Anyone know what the value on this might be. I'm trying to value my collection and I don't know much about errors.

Obverse is blank, reverse is fully printed.

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 Posted 06/28/2007  02:33 am  Show Profile   Check GO's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GO to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It looks like a blank planchet but it might have had some help with a belt sander. Can you get any larger pics?

Any chance you could weigh it? The coin itself should weigh around 3.11 grams.
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 Posted 06/28/2007  02:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chrycopaul to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
If the rim is gone then it has been sanded down.
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 Posted 06/28/2007  02:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Tpatna to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I agree...looks like it has been altered to me as well.
Closer pics needed to be sure
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 Posted 06/28/2007  08:50 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biokemist6 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Done with a belt sander or something similar, it is an impossible error to have one side blank with no rim.
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I concur. It was sanded down and isn't an error at all. It's worth one cent.
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Oh, and just in case you are interested, it was made between 1974 and 1979. The reverse was the same all of those years, so I cannot round it down any more than that.
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 Posted 06/28/2007  11:58 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Morganator to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks. Upon closer examination there are
some striations that might be from putting it on a sander.
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 Posted 06/29/2007  08:20 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TreasHunt to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Post mint alteration.
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Do all blank planchet coins, weather it be obverse or reverse have a full rim as a indicator to let you know for sure that is what it is ?

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If the planchet went thru the upsetting machine, then there will be a rim on both sides. If there is a rim on one side it was there on both at some point in time. I believe this is right. CC will confirm or correct.
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 Posted 07/03/2007  11:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BRUCE 1947 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Jim.
Thanks that sounds right.
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