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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Not sure what to make of this one. A 1976 PL set where the 50 cent piece in it has a plain edge, regular ones have a reeded edge. Weight of the entire set is 39.56 grams. I weighed a regular 1976 PL set and it weighs 39.80 grams. It looks like the blank used was slightly undersized, as it was struck slightly off center. Foreign planchet? Some other issue with the minting process? What do you guys think?    |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Pretty neat I have never seen one of these before great find
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Valued Member
Canada
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yes nice find have to check mine own sets again could be a foreign blank struck with this design
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1620 Posts |
My guess is that it was broadstruck (out of collar); hence the lack of edge reeding.
Nice one!
Edited by johnnysprawl
02/10/2017 7:51 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Shouldn't the weight be the same if that's the case?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
5324 Posts |
At some point you would have to cut it out and weigh it, it has to be a lighter and smaller planchet for it not to have the reeding by the collar, hope it's on a quarter
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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You're talking about a 0.2 gram difference...not much
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Moderator
 Canada
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A centred broadstrike coin (no collar die) - very nice!! I have a few nickel dollars like that. Although not an eye-popping error, that is easily a $200 error in my opinion.
Very cool, thanks for sharing!!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I have searched thousands of sets and this is the first for me with this type of error. The error set collectors will go nuts for this set and I agree with SPP with a $200.00 value.
You just don't know what you find in these sets sometimes!!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
4911 Posts |
excellent find! congrats.
Feel free to call me Will.
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Pillar of the Community
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4870 Posts |
Excellent find! Never seen anything like that before!
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks everyone. Truth be told, I wouldn't have noticed it if the previous owned hadn't mentioned it on the envelope :)
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Pillar of the Community
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Did you pay a premium for it?
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Pillar of the Community
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Errors in PL sets are quite scarce... well worth the premium in my opinion...
"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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Pillar of the Community
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Has anyone found any other errors in PL sets lately? This is still the most interesting one that I have ever come across inside a set. I haven't found any more since posting this months ago. BTW I have just listed this piece in my ebay store, in case anyone is interested :) Feel free to submit an offer! |
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Posted 02/10/2017 6:37 pm
