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Trial Strike or Thin Planchet -- Pulled from 1954 Cent Roll
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Without a scale is there a way to guess if this is a thin planchet, or trial strike. You comments welcome. Also, is this something error collectors like, or is it just another wheat cent?
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Interesting. Tapered planchet?
Its a cool find and I would keep it. My guess a flawed planchet but I'm no error expert.
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Without a scale you can see if it balances with a normal pre-1982 cent. You can use something like a Popsicle stick with the cents on each end.
Appears so. Probably from the end of a strip.
Very cool find
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Maybe grease if the weight checks out, planchet if under. 30-40$ in a holder although it will cost you that to get it in one
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No question lighter and looking at it more carefully -- its thinner.
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I think that we are waiting on Fred to chime in.
Maybe Fee316 will let us know what it actually is.
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That is an underweight coin, more precisely - struck on a tapered planchet.
This coin could not have been struck through grease. That would leave a full formed design rim. The design rim is nearly absent on this coin. A weak strike would be more probable, but it would have a more even strike, than what is present here.
JBK had it right.
Why so many marks in the weakly struck areas?
Very common for planchets to get banged up a bit tumbling in the annealing ovens and other mint equipment. Most such marks get flattened out during the strike, but with a thin planchet you don't get enough pressure to flatten them out.
In which case it would be deep in the AM and the bottle would have just a swirl left in it and Lincolns face would start transforming into letters and numbers beyond our small minds comprehension.
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Thanks for the comments. I guess tapered planchet is the call here.
President, Racine Numismatic Society 2013-2014; Variety Resource Dimes; See 6/8/12 CDN for my article on Winged Liberty Dimes; Ebay
Good morning – I’m still at home – as mentioned it’s a rolled thin or tapered thin
Planchet. Probably weighs 2.5 g – give or take – a better than average example Imo
Neat find for the 'education folder'....I would not slab it, but definitely keep it with the appropriate notations. Cheers, RickO
Neat find!
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Very nice and RD as well I would have it put in a holder.
Hoard the keys.
Thanks for all the help and comments.
President, Racine Numismatic Society 2013-2014; Variety Resource Dimes; See 6/8/12 CDN for my article on Winged Liberty Dimes; Ebay