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 Posted 12/21/2010  5:26 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add nikola to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello to anyone whether he met with this mintage error.
Original coin weight: 5.10g
Weight of this coins: 1.90g
No part of the inscription 2 dinars, but see the print of the crown. Half a millimeter thick.
What would be the value of such coin.



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 Posted 12/21/2010  5:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add svslav to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I don't believe this is a mint error, it was done after, and deliberately. Probably to make a double-obverse trick coin. Somehow this half "fell through the cracks" and didn't make it to the finished product.
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 Posted 12/21/2010  6:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biokemist6 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
This coin is also thinner than normal, correct? As long as there are no gouges or tooling marks around the rim and unstruck side, then you have a post-mint split planchet error.

This error is caused by a weakness in the metal stock used to strike the coin. If only a portion of the surface splits off, it is called a lamination or delamination. Metal stock with a profound internal weakness can literally cause the coin to split in half and that is what you have there. Sometimes, banging around with other coins and getting knocked around a bit after the coin leaves the mint is enough to cause the split. Splits can also have some "assistance" but that will usually leave traces of tooling marks and you cannot split a coin that does not have an internal weakness.

As for value, I have no idea as I am not familiar with the Croatian error market. I can tell you that it definitely has value as an error.
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 Posted 12/21/2010  8:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DCH to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Can you post an in focus pic of the unstruck side?

What's the diameter?
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 Posted 12/21/2010  10:26 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Snazzypit to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
to me it looks like a split planchet after strike and then brockage, as the obverse image is stamped into the reverse.
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 Posted 12/25/2010  3:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nikola to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The coin is originaly formed,the mechanical removal should leave a trace,thickness: original coin 1.5mm this coin 0.5 mm,on the rev is seen recess obv.
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 Posted 12/25/2010  3:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mikediamond to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
This appears to have started out as a split-before-strike planchet that was then struck against another, presumably normal planchet. Value of U.S. cent equivalents are in the $25 - $35 range. The blurred, incuse image on the "blank" face is not a brockage. It is a ghost image of the die-struck design on the opposite face. It's a normal component of the error I've described.
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