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What type of Mint error is this ?

fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
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There is no reeding on the edge, it is smooth like a nickel's edge. The rim is extremely wide.
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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    Is the coin wider than a regular quarter? It kind of looks like a centered broadstrike.
  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It is larger than a normal quarter.
  • OffMetalOffMetal Posts: 1,684 ✭
    It sure looks questionable. If something is broadstruck, shouldn't the size of the inside of the rim be larger?
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  • Coin FinderCoin Finder Posts: 7,432 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Do you have a reverse picture? NO reeding means no collar strike so the coin planchet enters the coining chamber and is struck, flattening out because of the pressure. A normal coin would have a collar in place that imparts reeding to the coin as it is stuck. The metal flows outward, hitting the collar to make reeding. Without a collar the metal just keeps going. Cool coin where did you find it?

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  • BunkerBunker Posts: 3,926 ✭
    I'm not sure what type of mint error that is but I like it. Did you receive it in change?
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  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image
    Here is a reverse picture.



    << <i>Cool coin where did you find it? >>

    It was part of a collection...mostly bufallo nickels, with a few errors mixed in.
  • bonkroodbonkrood Posts: 796 ✭✭✭
    Could that be a Sacagewea planchet?
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  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Could that be a Sacagewea planchet? >>



    Exactly what I was thinking...Mike
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  • Coin FinderCoin Finder Posts: 7,432 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like a type one planchet.

    Tbig
  • ROBERTBROBERTB Posts: 1,016


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    << <i>Could that be a Sacagewea planchet? >>



    Exactly what I was thinking...Mike >>



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  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Could that be a Sacagewea planchet? >>

    It reminds me of those SAC1$ / Statehood quarter mule obverses , but no this coin was minted a year before the SAC1$ and is DEFINETLY Cupronickel.image
  • BBNBBN Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭
    Would the Sac plankets be around in 1998 when this was minted?

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,897 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What BBN said- isn't too early to be on a Sac planchet?

    A Susie planchet, maybe...

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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,750 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think Conder101 probably nailed it. It doesn't look broadstruck because it is centered. The larger
    size and lack of reeding is telltale.
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  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This coin is not gold in color, that is my bad imaging and lighting techiques.image The coin is the same color as a normal quarter. I can also see the copper and nickel layers on the edge.

  • BaronVonBaughBaronVonBaugh Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭✭
    Very nice centered broadstike.
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  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not a bad deal for $10.image
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Could that be a Sacagewea planchet? >>



    There were no SACs in 1998, it could be a SBA planchet
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice out of collar strike? Wrong planchet? On or the other as far as I can see. Most cool.
  • OffMetalOffMetal Posts: 1,684 ✭
    Chances are that it is not struck on a larger planchet. I believe that thebigeng was right about the T-1 Planchet. Maybe Fred will chime in with the correct answer image
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  • rottnrogrottnrog Posts: 683 ✭✭✭


    Centered broadstrike on a type 1 planchet.

  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    There were no SBA planchets in 1998 either, so a dollar planchet is out of the question. Besides the feeding equipment in the quarter press can't handle a planchet larger than quarter size. So the only way to strike a coin on a larger planchet woud be for the pressman to place the planchet between the dies manually and then start the press.

    The next question, and one I should have asked in the first post, is "What does it weigh?" My bet is that the weight will be normal, about 5.67 grams.

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