How about this for a Broken Planchet!!
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It's broken all right! Strange how the first "T" still shows through the damage.
Pete
More impressive than my new acquisition.
The first "t" shows because it is struck through debris.
I like it!
That is pretty cool looking, I love stuff like this.
That is actually a defective planchet error, and a nice coin.
Couple of things here - first when you say "damage" I trust you are referring to the condition of the planchet, and not to something that happened to the coin post strike. Everything about the OP's coin can be explained by events that happened within the Mint, with one possible exception below.
There is a good reason you can see the ghosts of the first few letters of STATES, and also why the words IN GOD are fully struck on the obverse despite the planchet being less than full thickness and there being no design struck up immediately opposite. There was a retained lamination above the eagle's wing that came detached after the strike. Once separated from the host coin, it would be called a uniface struck fragment. Depending on when it separated, it might have never left the Mint.
Certainly makes this coin more interesting than your run of the mill ragged clip.
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Looks like someone took a bite out of it! LOL
Cool looking planchet!
Dave
Thanks, Sean, nice write up.
Pete
Whoa!
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Nice!
Sean, very helpful explanation. Thanks!
that would be nice to have in the collection.
Defective planchet which could double as a bottle opener.
Very Nice - I owned his cousin a few years back:
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Very cool! Maybe I should get my graded as well but it is not an MS65!!
Pretty darn cool!
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Here is a more distant cousin. I can't remember if I still own this coin or not but it now resides in NGC plastic graded MS63 I believe. This type of defective planchet is commonly called a "blowhole" error as it goes all the way through the coin.
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I have a very distant cousin of his!
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I'd say its broke for sure very cool!!!
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Here's another cousin that I had owned.
And a second cousin.
I like all of the above posted examples. Thanks for the pixs.
Some very impressive errors shown in this thread. I've never seen anything like them before.
Wow.. that is quite the damaged planchet... Where are these found? I assume either rolls or bags.... Cheers, RickO