Looks like a planchet lamination.
with a few scratches in the area to
the left .
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Looks like a planchet flaw and well worth the expense of getting it slabbed. Slabbing for a coin like this makes a big difference in value in the marketplace.
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I will support the consensus... planchet flaw... slabbing a gold coin is a good idea for authenticity purposes.. especially these small gold coins....Cheers, RickO
@ricko said:
I will support the consensus... planchet flaw... slabbing a gold coin is a good idea for authenticity purposes.. especially these small gold coins....Cheers, RickO
I know these well enough that I don't bother wasting my money on grading unless it will grade high enough to make sense, it has awesome color (for my toned set), or has an error like this. If I graded every gold coin I had, I would be broke! lol
The W in we and the R in trust show no surface scratch or mar on top of the letters. They present up to and in front of each letter indicating the stamp was on top of the planchete. Send it in, good investment to insure authenticity.
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I'm posting to this thread for information from the error experts.
As has been said above, this is a lamination (error) on a struck coin. This one appears to have been caused by an impurity in the planchet. So technically, it's a lamination that resulted from the flawed planchet. I tend to call anything on a coin that looks like it was on the unstruck planchet BEFORE the coin was struck a planchet flaw.
The terms tend to be used interchangeably, but I agree
that a Planchet Flaw would be on the Planchet before
it was struck, and a lamination would be the result of a
planchet flaw, as you said.
'Planchet Flaw' can encompass more than a lamination -
it could be a small cracked planchet (common, on silver
dollars), or something else that causes the flaw. (imo)
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Looks like a planchet lamination.
with a few scratches in the area to
the left .
The few scratches made me question it. They are light enough I think it has a shot at grading though. Thanks for your input!
I thought it looked like a planchet flaw too.
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I vote planchet flaw.
Looks like a planchet flaw and well worth the expense of getting it slabbed. Slabbing for a coin like this makes a big difference in value in the marketplace.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
I like it !!!
Planchet flaw
Neat.
I will support the consensus... planchet flaw... slabbing a gold coin is a good idea for authenticity purposes.. especially these small gold coins....Cheers, RickO
I know these well enough that I don't bother wasting my money on grading unless it will grade high enough to make sense, it has awesome color (for my toned set), or has an error like this. If I graded every gold coin I had, I would be broke! lol
The W in we and the R in trust show no surface scratch or mar on top of the letters. They present up to and in front of each letter indicating the stamp was on top of the planchete. Send it in, good investment to insure authenticity.
Bob Sr CEO Fieldtechs
I'm posting to this thread for information from the error experts.
As has been said above, this is a lamination (error) on a struck coin. This one appears to have been caused by an impurity in the planchet. So technically, it's a lamination that resulted from the flawed planchet. I tend to call anything on a coin that looks like it was on the unstruck planchet BEFORE the coin was struck a planchet flaw.
Is this the correct usage?
The terms tend to be used interchangeably, but I agree
that a Planchet Flaw would be on the Planchet before
it was struck, and a lamination would be the result of a
planchet flaw, as you said.
'Planchet Flaw' can encompass more than a lamination -
it could be a small cracked planchet (common, on silver
dollars), or something else that causes the flaw. (imo)