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Valued Member
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Can anyone explain the small splotch of colour in the middle of this coin? Thanks.   |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Most likely it is just a nasty stain from this coin's day-to-day life.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Looks to be struck through a foreign object, perhaps a flake of copper or other metal.
Just my thought
Feel free to call me Will.
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Valued Member
Canada
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dollarman, so you mean at the mint?
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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Could it be missing the final nickel coating in that area exposing the copper plating layer beneath?
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I wonder if yours is the first coins struck after the Silver 2 tone Artic were finished?
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Valued Member
Canada
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i would say plating error. steel as well as other metals need to be plated with copper 1st before being plated with another metal. thats why you see copper showing through on worn new change.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Could be, although I think that dollarman is hitting closer to the mark. I have a few pennies from the '60's which have this same effect, except in reverse -- they're all copper but with a silver flake showing. The flake is just a small random wafer of stray silver which originated in the production of some silver run that managed to get caught up in the minting process of the penny run. It looks like Kafka's coin might have picked up a bit of stray copper in the same way.
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I concur with DBM. If you look closely at a lot of modern, plated coinage, you will see this even in new coins from mint rolls.
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So...to summarize...plating error? Common? Uncommon? Here's a pic with greater definition.  |
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