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Got this one in a big lot of error coins. It is a split copper planchet or blank that on first glance looks like a Dryer Coin. Seems like an odd fate for such an error coin which otherwise looks uncirculated. But on second glance that's still what it looks like. I am calling the side with the split the obverse. On that side the rim is quite uniform in thickness and seems kind of rolled over. Both wide spots show the same look. The reverse is different, with a slightly irregular shape and a light bevel towards the edge. The wide spot is completely hooked over and does not contact the coin's surface. The edge is smooth and angles toward the obverse side around the whole coin even at the pinched spots. Anyway, it's an error coin with something going on that looks like PMD but I really am unsure how the coin ended up this way. Lincoln Cent mint error - split planchet with oddity 1.60g        |
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Interesting but have no clue.  -makecents-
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With the two flat spots on the rim roughly parallel, I agree that they seem to be damage. For sure an interesting find nonetheless.
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I will add that the diameter not at the flat spots is 18.5mm.
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Pretty neat error coin! Not sure what caused the pinched spot.
Errers and Varietys.
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Very cool looking but I really do not know anything about those.
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Definitely a keeper! TB you have the touch.
"We are all flawed, some MD and some PMD." NYI |
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Neat, but way beyond my ken.
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Interesting coin - have no clue how it came to be.
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Neat. Guessing it got stuck in a machine somewhere,
and had to be pounded out.
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Interesting find!  |
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odd for sure, but Tunnioc may have a possible answer..  |
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Well after 24 hours of  , I think a mint mishap may be a foot. Being a split planchet (or clam shell) run through the upset mill, which includes the possible Blakeley effect. To me the un-circulated condition suggest it could be a product of the minting process. Thank, Doug. Forgot: Edited by Halo1st
01/07/2024 10:25 pm
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Interesting. As you say, it's a split planchet. The edge definitely does not show a normal pattern of upset. It appears to have been rolled and squeezed in the horizontal plane. Whether this occurred inside or outside the Mint isn't clear. We can't call this "pre-strike damage" as the planchet was never struck. "Damage" must suffice. Most of the edge has been pushed in to form a false proto-rim. The flattened area on the edge where the metal has been pushed over is more serious damage. Here is another planchet with circumferential damage that was later struck off-center. The interior of this off-center cent is also completely covered with pre-strike contact marks on both faces.  Error coin writer and researcher.
Edited by mikediamond
01/08/2024 09:10 am
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Thanks Mike! That adds a lot, as apparently there is some machinery at the mint itself that can make a " Dryer Coin" kind of thing since your coin was struck after the damage happened. It's still just damage, and for my coin likely no way of ever knowing when or where it happened, but sometimes damage is still fun to think about. |
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Posted 01/06/2024 9:28 pm
