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good grief. are those really filled dies or a super weak strike where the dies barely compressed the flan?
funny error slab.
diameter looks too big but it has sharp, formed rims. hmmm.
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I always wonder how these are graded?
By the trace forehead and bridge of the nose or the rims?
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I am a bit surprised that it received a grade. Typically, with bare planchets, die adjustment strikes, edge strikes, etc., there isn't much of a basis on which to grade a coin as far as marks are concerned, because so little of it was struck properly. Almost all business-strike planchets look scruffy.
They are like trying spot a polar bear in a snow storm.
NGC doesn't assign a numerical grade to these, but ANACS and PCGS do.
There are blank planchet collectors who have drunk the kool-aid and will upgrade from a MS61 to MS62.
I am a bit surprised that it received a grade. Typically, with bare planchets, die adjustment strikes, edge strikes, etc., there isn't much of a basis on which to grade a coin as far as marks are concerned, because so little of it was struck properly. Almost all business-strike planchets look scruffy.
They are like trying spot a polar bear in a snow storm.
NGC doesn't assign a numerical grade to these, but ANACS and PCGS do.
There are blank planchet collectors who have drunk the kool-aid and will upgrade from a MS61 to MS62.
Kool-Aid would taste better with sour grapes made into whine, for those who drink that way.
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eoc, will you tell us if the diameter is kosher. i'd like to not lose any more sleep thinking about it.
yes the formula is simple to measure a slab and a lincoln and the slab image and do the basic math but im iz lazy just now.
the tree/house/ladder shadow equation. ie:
1 x
- -
5 9
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A low pressure strike or "trial strike" will not have the developed rims that this piece has.
Can you elaborate on that? I thought rims were acquired during the upsetting process, prior to coins being pressed. Maybe they become more clearly defined during minting?
Then again, planchet cents are not made by the Mint, unlike other coinage. They're outsourced and delivered ready for stamping. So maybe something else is different?
Lance.
That is my understanding also...maybe things have changed?
K
RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'
CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]