Blank Planchet Question

possibly a type 1 blank - it does not appear to have been through the upsetting mill.

to the CCF!

It's not a quarter blank, because it's too light for silver, and too heavy for clad.

It also doesn't have the rim, which pretty much every "coin blank" that escapes the mint will have.

I might have suspected it's a normal quarter that someone has ground down on both faces (to use as a blank for engraving), but that edge doesn't look like a ground-down quarter edge. It also looks too coppery for silver. So that can be ruled out too.

It might be a blank token. The city council where I live has a token-operated exit gate for their "waste transfer stations" - council residents are given a token when they arrive with a car-load of waste, so they can leave again without having to pay commercial waste disposal fees. Originally, the tokens used here were nice, attractive items featuring the Council logo; Example on Numista. Apparently, they were too nice, as people kept "losing their tokens". So when the council needed more tokens a few years later, they replaced them with blank brass discs, deliberately unattractive to collectors. This might be something similar.

Or it might be something completely non-numismatic (like an electrical punch-out); not everything round and made of metal is necessarily a coin or token.

You are correct on many points, But I have a blank for a zinc Lincoln Cent that does not yet have a 'proto' rim that is created by the upsetting mill. So blanks are out there They are called "Type 1" blanks - if they have the rim, then they are called a Type 2 blank (or more accurately - Planchet)

Interesting thread and blank planchet. Food for thought.



Interesting Dearborn.

This seems like as good a time to pose a couple of questions to anyone "in the know" concerning modern zinc planchets (1982 to present).

-Dearborn, does yours have the copper plating?
-Forming the proto-rim after the copper plating is applied seems like it could affect the thickness of the copper on the proto-rim.

-Is the same process used making the zinc planchets as the old "copper" planchets, but adding the copper plating? (Are you sure? Anyone with any info verifying the modern process, by Artazn LLC/Jarden Zinc, would be immensely appreciated.)

-The mint (ie: Artazn LLC) seems to have eliminated most of the issues with "split plating" on the modern Lincoln cents. Did they have to increase the thickness of the copper plating to accomplish this? Does anyone know how they "eliminated" the split plating?

Just some random thoughts on this Thursday afternoon.

Thanks to anyone with any insight. (Not on why I have random thoughts. )

Thank you Dearborn. Absolutely fantastic to see that. Did you get it from the Greenville Tenn. plant, purchase it, or find it?
Those roller lines are pretty bold. That's odd since it seems like they would still be there after the copper plating process and striking of the coin.

Do you recall how long you've had it. (Just trying to gauge how old it might be.)

Thanks again.
ps. And thanks for going the extra mile to provide the details on the specs for your planchet.