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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Picked this up the other day. I thought it was neat that you can see the queen's head on the obverse and 'cent' on the reverse. I'm assuming I am correct in calling this a struck fragment? Are these rare?   Edited by johnnysprawl
11/01/2016 12:39 am
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Interesting piece and its just my opinion but I am thinking PMD |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
5324 Posts |
That huge gash kind of turns this into a PMD |
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 Canada
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Looks like someone took a flawed planchet strike and tore it apart...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'd have to agree. Looks like some PMD |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
870 Posts |
Hmmmm...when you Google 'struck on fragment', you certainly see a lot of mangled coins. Who knows what happened to this one.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Besides being struck on a fragment/flawed planchet, I'm thinking the gash is not PMD and happened before it entered circulation.. |
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Valued Member
Canada
320 Posts |
That gash isn't necessarily PMD. I've seen it before on coins I pulled out of mint rolls. it looks very possible that this is a full genuine mint error. Just My opinion |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
5324 Posts |
The big gash looks like it happened after the strike
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Wow.. Interesting.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Are these rare? Quite uncommon. The damage does reduce the eye-appeal (& value) substantially though. Many collectors are unsure if it is even authentic. If it is authentic, it may have been jammed in coin counting mechanism. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks for the opinions everyone. The 'gash' looks similar to a strike-through on another error cent I have, which would suggest it isn't PMD?   |
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Posted 11/01/2016 07:52 am
