Interesting error: Lincoln Cent on foreign planchet

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• fivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 1, 2005 10:29AM

  The foreign planchet is from one of the foriegn coins the US Mint strikes for other countrys.

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• Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭

  December 1, 2005 10:31AM

  The cent planchets are manufactured by an outside supplier. If they are also making planchets for some other country there is the possiblity that one of them can get accidently mixed in with the lincoln cent planchets.

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• dan1ecu Posts: 1,573

  December 1, 2005 10:33AM

  Neat!
  
  Thanks,
  
  Dan

  Dan McInnes
  
  mcinnes@mailclerk.ecok.edu">dmcinnes@mailclerk.ecok.edu

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• seanq Posts: 8,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 1, 2005 11:24AM

  To expand a little on what Conder said (and as usual, he was right on with his comment), 1997 and 1998 asre the most common years for this type of error. The smaller planchets typically weigh in between 1.6 and 1.8 grams, and are slighly smaller in diameter than a normal cent. I've seen them described on TPG inserts as being struck on Singapore or Malaysian 1 Sen planchets, but I don't know anyone who has confirmed that analysis.
  
  It should sell for somewhere in the neighborhood of $300.
  
  
  Sean Reynolds

  Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.
  
  "Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 43,897 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 1, 2005 12:11PM

  I used to have some 1944-dated Belgian coins struck at Philadelphia on leftover US steel cent planchets. (Intentionally, not by error.) They're a nice, inexpensive Darkside/Lightside/WW2 cross-collectible.

  
  
  

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• errormaven Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭

  December 1, 2005 12:43PM

  I would think $200 is more likely. Composition is the same as a cent (copper-plated zinc). Slabbers often misidentify them as copper composition. They come in a more common 1.7g type (seen here) and a rarer 2 gram type intended for a second country. Neither is Malaysian 1 sen, as the latter is copper-plated steel and sticks to a magnet. I haven't checked out the Singapore theory.
  
  --Mike Diamond

  Mike Diamond is an error coin writer and researcher. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those held by any organization I am a member of.

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• Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭

  December 1, 2005 10:13PM

  
  
  << <i>The foreign planchet is from one of the foreign coins the US Mint strikes for other countrys. >>
  
  
  The US mint has only struck one coin for another country since 1984 and that was the 2 Kr for Iceland in 2000 that was used in the Lief Erickson set that year.

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