lamination error coins

silverpop

well have a few of these mostly nickels

habaraca

only one I have imaged:

silverpop

Broadstruck

1901-O $10 with the largest obverse lamination known on top and a smaller in front of Ms. Liberty's eye.

kryptonitecomics

Very common on Nickels...especially Silver war nickels from what I hear.

Here is a cool quarter I just sold on Ebay..

silverpop

very cool error coins

1tommy

This is my only one, a 1956 quarter and its a Type B. Enjoy

CaptHenway

<< <i>Very common on Nickels...especially Silver war nickels from what I hear.

Here is a cool quarter I just sold on Ebay..





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Be careful! The delamination police might confiscate that!

delinky

BillJones

If you any of you have an accumulation of 1943 Steel cents or 1942-5 Wartime nickels you stand a good chance of finding a piece with a lamination. Laminations are fairly common on those coins, especially the nickels.

ibzman350

Herb

OnWithTheHunt

silverpop

bigole

Dumb rookie question- are laminations good things from a value perspective, or a negative?

Is it considered a cool error, or "damaged"?

I've got a 1918-D Buffalo with a lamination on the reverse, I'd just like to know whether to love it or hate it.

Thanks.

ctf_error_coins

Minor laminations are very common and don't add to the value of the coin and may distract.

Major eye appealing lamination errors do carry a premium.

silverpop

true they add little to the coin but to me they make the coin interesting to own, despite being common they are still a neat error to own

bigole

Thanks, I like it, I guess at the end of the day that's what counts.

I just have to be careful with my Dansco when I pull out the plastic insert, otherwise it "hangs" on the lamination.

CoinZip

LanceNewmanOCC

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lamination, cracks and clashing

ibzman350

Nice 21, I like!!


Herb

LochNESS

<< <i>1901-O $10 with the largest obverse lamination known on top and a smaller in front of Ms. Liberty's eye.

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Now if I had a gold lamination error, I'd be sure to collect any pieces that flaked off / de-laminated

nwcoast

Cool examples.
Here'smy one and only. I've had it ever since I was a little kid.

Harry779

Icollecteverything

I was looking thru some minor errors and noticed that several Lincolns with laminations also seemed to have the woodgrain effect and the grain seems to go in the same direction as the lamination! I remembered this thread and I see that two of the war nickels previously shown here seem to have the same thing going on.
Is the wood grain effect possibly from when they rolled the metal stock there were impurities and/or bubbles in the metal? Maybe this is what causes the wood grain as the metal is compressed?

CaptHenway

The woodgrain effect is caused by metal ingots with small, localized concentrations of alloy (zinc and/or tin in the case of bronze) that cause areas of the bronze to appear brassy being rolled out and elongated. These concentrations are caused by the zinc and/or tin not being properly diffused into the copper base. I believe that this was caused by the mixture not being heated hot enough.

If the alloying materials are really poorly mixed, when they get rolled out they could cause cracks in the metal that express themselves as laminations.

harveypb

Here's a lamination line shaped like a U on the obverse of a 1960 Type B Reverse quarter.

harveypb

I forgot to mention that there are also lamination lines on the reverse of the 1960
Type B Reverse quarter above the R in QUARTER and above the arrowheads running across
the left wing.