Planchet error on a 1973 Kennedy Half Dollar
junior006
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Can anyone help me with this I have not been able to find anything on it.
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junior006
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What are you asking about? I see nothing noteworthy in your pics.
wow. those are some BIG images.
i'll shrink em a bit.
@junior006 ... Welcome aboard. Good pictures. I assume you are questioning the weight, as it appears to be .4g underweight. Have you checked the calibration on your scale? Compare it to other 1973 Kennedy half dollar weights. Cheers, RickO
@ricko yes I weight a lot of half dollars they are always 11.3-11.5. the tolerance for weight is a low of 10.9 and change so its almost .5 of a gram lower than the tolerance. looks like you have been here a while I'm very new to this thanks for your help.
who is this comment above you I've posted two question had he puts the same ending about fakes.
From one of the pictures it appears to have a slightly smaller diameter. Is this correct?
If so, the coin might have been trimmed down and re-rereeded for some reason.
Perhaps it was part of a magic trick set where this coin fit inside something else.
@junior006... The post directly above mine, was put there to make your pictures smaller and easier to view. Cheers, RickO
@CaptHenway yes smaller in diameter its 29mm its also thicker and weighs way less.
It is physically impossible for the US Mint to produce a reeded coin that is smaller than the expected diameter. Yours may have been trimmed down as Capt Henway suggests. However it got to be this way, it didn't happen within the mint.
a bit of a dryer coin?
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
No. It would not have sharp reeding
This coin is a bit of a conundrum! the coin is clearly smaller diameter and the reeding looks really well done!
That's just his signature. It's attached to every post @LanceNewmanOCC makes. Has nothing to do with your coins.
@2windy2fish its driving me crazy how do you trim a coin down just looking at it by its self it looks great but when the bank teller gave it to me and i picked it up i took it straight to a scale.
Most of the underweight halves from this era were struck on quarter stock, (the metal they punched the planchets out of was for quarters) IIRC. I have a few of these.
In this case, though, I think it's just altered.
"It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."
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It is not difficult to trim a coin down. Putting all the reeding on there, I don't know but that appears to be a lot of work.
Not sure if it was cut down or tapped down or a combination of both.
A couple things I notice. While it is thicker, it also appears to be more square on the edges. Also a little rough and the reeds appear to go all the way to the edge whereas the other the reeds stop where the edge bevel is (if that makes sense).
Found a picture of the edge of one also. Then the bottom picture the reeding on the center one appears much sharper than the other two (some wear going on).
The video at the bottom shows how easy it is to machine a coin.
FYI - If you ratio the square of the two diameters (29 and nominal 30.6) you have 841 / 936.36 = .898
It is under weight by 10.4 / 11.34 (nominal) = .917
So about the same %.
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thanks for blowing up this image. it shows some shenanigans going on that pretty much clears this up. imo