Struck through scrap error - how do you think it happened?
jmcu12
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I have had this for a while and it is one of my more favorite errors - how do you think it happened?
Is scrap typically this small? Was the scrap already on the planchet before it was struck or was this scrap loose in the press at the time of minting?
The obverse is slightly MAD as well - not sure what that means, if anything other than that particular die was not oriented correctly at the time of minting.
Is scrap typically this small? Was the scrap already on the planchet before it was struck or was this scrap loose in the press at the time of minting?
The obverse is slightly MAD as well - not sure what that means, if anything other than that particular die was not oriented correctly at the time of minting.
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wood imbedded and steel wire imbedded. How does that get off the floor and onto the
press?
bob
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
Or something could have gotten in to the press and landed on the lower die before the blank came in atop it. A very precise weight would give you an indication as to whether the foreign object was added before or after the blanking, but because of the weight tolerance you could never be sure.
As to the wood chips seen in Morgan dollars, those result from planchets being washed, rinsed and dried in barrels of sawdust. The wood chips are usually seen in New Orleans dollars, and I suspect that the high humidity that N.O. is famous for helps some of the sawdust stick to the planchets.
TD
<< <i>Could very well be a chunk of clad... Pre 1965 Lincoln errors are known with a retained silver strike-in. >>
i concur with BS. That's the first example of struck-in fragment I've seen for that year.