1949 1c Error - Foreign Planchet? - Coin Community Forum

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skip79 Valued Member Canada 403 Posts	Posted 09/20/2016 10:16 am Here's a 1949 1c piece that appears to have been struck on a foreign planchet. The planchet has a smaller diameter (18mm), and is about 1/3 of the thickness of a typical 1c piece (and possibly even less than that). As you will see below, it's weakly struck on both sides. It's so light weight that it won't even produce a reading on any of my digital scales. I'm not sure what the metal is that it's struck on as it has a slightly different golden/brassy colour/tone compared to an ordinary 1c piece struck in that era, and it's certainly not a planchet used in any other Canadian decimal currency either. I can confirm the metal is non-magnetic. Anyone have any thoughts on this piece or seen one like it, especially from that time period? Any idea on value? Report this Post to the Staff

JimmyD Bedrock of the Community Canada 21635 Posts	Posted 09/20/2016 10:25 am Appears to be acid etched. Report this Post to the Staff
DBM Pillar of the Community Canada 9866 Posts	Posted 09/20/2016 10:52 am Yup Coca-Cola coin. "Dipping" is not considered cleaning... -from PCGS website Report this Post to the Staff
skip79 Valued Member Canada 403 Posts	Posted 09/20/2016 11:14 am Ah! I've not come across an acid-dipped coin before. I'll add this to the "conversation piece" pile. Thanks for the info! Report this Post to the Staff
XWLCoins Valued Member Canada 320 Posts	Posted 09/20/2016 11:16 am Definitely not a foreign planchet. PMD Report this Post to the Staff
Numisma Pillar of the Community United States 4963 Posts	Posted 09/20/2016 7:55 pm I agree with the acid verdict. You mentioned that it didn't produce a reading on the scale. How sensitive are the ones you used? Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10460 Posts	Posted 09/21/2016 10:43 am The mint did not strike coins for other countries in the 1940s... keep that in mind for future questionable coins... "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 Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
skip79 Valued Member Canada 403 Posts	Posted 09/21/2016 5:29 pm Thx SPP, I didn't know that. Numisma, not sure on sensitivity of scales, but they ordinarily produce readings to the tenth of a gram. Report this Post to the Staff
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