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Pillar of the Community
United States
732 Posts |
A friend got a blank planchet in a roll of pennies It weighs 2.5 grams but it's a couple thousands smaller in diameter then a finished penny I have added it to my "Oddities" page  Edited by Boba Debt
06/16/2022 1:53 pm
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Not very common. I have only ever found 1 and I have looked through a few cents in my day  John1  Edited by John1
06/16/2022 12:31 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Not very common. I have only ever found 1 and I have looked through a few cents in my day
John1 Cool, guess it's a keeper |
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United States
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Nice find!  I have only every found one and lucky for me it is bronze, not plated zinc.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
19108 Posts |
I've found two over several decades. Nice discovery.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6498 Posts |
Quote: I have looked through a few cents in my day I think, that would be safe to say  Quote:
Searched 6.5 +/- Million Cents Since 1971 |
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United States
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Not too common at all, and yes prior to the strike, it would be smaller so it will drop into the collar easily. it will expand to full size at the moment of the strike. then ejected. Nice find BTW.
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
United States
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I'm not a coin searcher, so I can't speak to how often they appear "in the wild," but I can tell you that I've secured hundreds of them from the Mint for my local coin club to give to young collectors. They're made to be used as giveaways, and are fairly common.
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Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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United States
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Show your financial support of the Coin Community Family (click here)See my topic on Mexican Numismatic Medals (click here) |
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There is a topic here I saw just the other day - it was about a bar top that was covered in Canadian pennies and Lincoln Cents. I think it would be fun to salt the top with a planchet or 2 in the mix with the rest. A kind of "where's Waldo" game for the inebriated patrons.
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As I pointed out in another recent thread, zinc penny blanks are the only coin blanks not currently being made on-site at the Mint; they are made by Jarden Zinc (recently renamed to Artazn) in Greeneville, Tennessee and shipped in bulk to the mints around the country. This extra shipping and handling no doubt gives penny blanks more...opportunity to escape than the blanks the Mint makes in-house. Back in 2016, a semi-trailer hauling 22.5 tons of penny blanks crashed on the highway in Delaware while enroute from Greeneville to Philly. They tried to clean them all up but if 8.1 million coin blanks get spilled across the highway, they're probably going to miss some. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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United States
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I've found a couple in my lifetime of collecting. When I was younger I never knew what it was, lol. Now days I see a lot of people sending them to grading companies to get the blank planchets graded. I truly believe there will be collecting forum for them.
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Collecting forum for planchets? hmm, I wouldn't expect to see many questions about errors pop up
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I wouldn't expect to see many questions about errors pop up Is this a double die? Is this an off-center strike? Is this is a 1922 no-D?  Show your financial support of the Coin Community Family (click here)See my topic on Mexican Numismatic Medals (click here) |
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Is this is a 1922 no-D? A good reason me to put mine in the Dansco hole.  |
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Quote:A good reason me to put mine in the Dansco hole for me I think it would be the 1909-S VDB  (unless someone here would like to gift me one..  |
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