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Has anyone seen something like this before?
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Very cool!
<< <i>Struck on a tapered planchet. Check the weight -- it should be light.
Very cool! >>
What exactly is a tapered planchet? Thanks in advance.
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<< <i>Struck on a tapered planchet. Check the weight -- it should be light.
Very cool! >>
What exactly is a tapered planchet? Thanks in advance. >>
I agree.
A tapered planchet was probably punched from the very beginning or very end of a strip of metal. The strips were tapered to feed into the rolling mills easily, and those tapers should have been trimmed off and thrown back into the melting pot. However, if you punch a blank there, you can get a blank too thin along one edge.
Another possibility is that a strip was damaged in one area and made thinner there, but the beginning/end of strip explanation is most likely.
Nice original piece.
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<< <i>It could be an extreme case of a filled die, where a hunk of foreign material, such as a mint employee's thumb, got lodged in the die as the coin was struck. In that case, the weight of the coin should be normal. >>
That wouldn't affect both sides of the coin, though. I'm in the "tapered planchet" camp as well, though I'm a bit surprised the rim along the taper came up as strongly as it did in the upsetting process. Greanted most of my experience with tapered planchets is on 1950s cents, but I've never seen an unstruck and upset rim at the end of the taper before.
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<< <i>It could be an extreme case of a filled die, where a hunk of foreign material, such as a mint employee's thumb, got lodged in the die as the coin was struck. In that case, the weight of the coin should be normal. >>
Ouch! But not likely. A filled die only affects one side of the coin, usually the bottom die. Since the rim was well formed, it is a planchet error.
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<< <i>If it is a tapered planchet very cool
that is what I am thinking
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