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Bedrock of the Community
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Absolutely no clue about how NGC gets to gem on this one, but I guess they have a process for assigning grades. But everything else aside, it's the FB designation that drove the purchase, alongside the unique mint error which appears to be an out-of-collar broadstrike. No mention of any planchet switch as far as I can tell in my limited knowledge.  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Pillar of the Community
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That is a beauty, congratulation on the FB designation.
The weight would likely said this is from a normal dime planchet.
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Pillar of the Community
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So my question from my earlier post - the similar one I found says "broadstruck on a type one planchet." Does anyone know what a type one planchet is? If you search Heritage for " Mercury dime type one planchet" there are ten of them, all broadstruck, all PCGS, designated "T-I Plan" or "T-I Blank", and yes the label uses a capital I and not a 1. I couldn't find anything on what that's supposed to be. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Ah, thank you. That explains why I found other years and denominations with "type one planchet" errors. I was thinking it had to do with the alloy. So, technically those are "type one blank", not planchet, since it doesn't become a planchet until it has a rim after going through the upsetting machine. According to NGC https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/328/ there are type one blank, type two blank, and (type three) planchet. |
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These are fairly popular, in fact this coin isn't that big of a broadstrike.
A friend of mine specializes in these, and he has Nickels the size of a quarter!
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Pillar of the Community
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@NS,
The error should cost a small fortune, even a regular 45-P FB is rather hard to come by.
Excellent pick up.
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Man I was close here.a wonderful coin for your VERY nice collection!!
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