Check out this lamination flaw on this Franklin half.

RedneckHB

Is this common? Is it worth much more than melt?

JamesMurray

Yikes ol'ben's been scalped..thats well cool

frnklnlvr

Very neat!

Since it's circulated it wouldn't have a huge premium but it is worth more than melt. Is that a cud at 4:00 or just another planchet flaw? How's the reverse look?

MrMag

very cool!!!

RedneckHB

<< <i>Very neat!

Since it's circulated it wouldn't have a huge premium but it is worth more than melt. Is that a cud at 4:00 or just another planchet flaw? How's the reverse look? >>



Thats a rim dent--actually a small puncture in the rim. The reverse is normal. Its a Denver mint product.

Windycity

Neat coin!

Justacommeman

That is pretty cool.....MJ

STONE

I have to ask this question: Do you think that the planchet flaw/de-lamination occurred before or after striking took place?

I ask because I am trying to figure out another silver coin with a similar planchet flaw

bushmaster8

That's huge!

PawPaul

very neat .....almost looks like bell lines under his temple !

NewRose

<< <i>Yikes ol'ben's been scalped >>








<< <i>..thats well cool >>

mikeyg

That coin has been out in the sun too long.....ben is peeling

Dropdaflag

Frankenstein!!!

tydye

Neat

WoodenJefferson

<< <i>I have to ask this question: Do you think that the planchet flaw/de-lamination occurred before or after striking took place?

I ask because I am trying to figure out another silver coin with a similar planchet flaw >>



Looking at this lamination, Id have to say that the lamination was attached during the striking of the coin and now has peeled or was torn off the host coin. This is a huge lamination flaw and would carry only a slight premium to an error collector. It would have been better had this not been a circulated coin, but on a neatness scale it is about a 6.5

NotSure

That is neat, very neat. Good thing it's not MS. as our hosts won't holder a peeling lamination (code 83). Can't understand why, though.

Meltdown

You see something new every day here. That is awesome.

AuroraBorealis

That is very cool...Almost looks like the bottom half of the USA...With Texas and Baja... A definite keeper for sure...

AB

stinkinlincoln

Amazing piece, and yes, worth more than melt. Id pay quite abit more than melt for that piece.


And excellent image.

frnklnlvr

Here are a couple Franklins on defective planchets I have from the Bushmaster collection. The first is a 1958 Type 2, one of my favorites. The 1963 looks like it'd be FBL if it weren't for the defect.

coindeuce

That's the rare craniumectomy error.

SkyMan

Here's your brain... here's your brain on drugs...

airplanenut

<< <i>Frankenstein!!! >>

Ben Stein!

kryptonitecomics

I'll bet if that was thrown on Ebay it might bring $50 to $75 bucks even circulated...but I could be wrong

bushmaster8

I would say $20-$30.

If UNC, $300-$500.

crazyhounddog

<< <i>I would say $20-$30.

If UNC, $300-$500. >>



In my book this is a very cool coin, no question. But does stuff like this lamination increase the value? I always thought lamination decreased the value....

Billet7

I think it's awesome!

Robb

<< <i>

<< <i>I would say $20-$30.

If UNC, $300-$500. >>



In my book this is a very cool coin, no question. But does stuff like this lamination increase the value? I always thought lamination decreased the value.... >>



And for yet another opinion, I'd think it would be worth more circulated than uncirculated. You'd think an error like that would have either been pulled by the bank, a collector or just some random person who thought it looked cool well before it had the chance to circulate all that much.