Mint Error or Mistreated Farthing?

Mint Error or Mistreated Farthing?

Is it a bad flan or just mistreated?

 

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I think you mean planchet and not flan.
Looks like lamination peel to me.
Let's hear from some better judges.

 

looks to be an inferior planchet, which has started to flake.

 

lamination peel

 

I think its die error. The metal can crack and make a patten like this when a small bit of the die has fallen out.

 

So was I wrong in calling it a flan instead of a planchet? I thought the two were interchangeable.


Planchet vs. flan
http://www.cointalk.com/t4306/

 

I also wanna say damaged planchet.

 

Same thing.:thumb:

 

Sort of like the difference between a baby carriage and a pram. They are both rectangular boxes with hoodies on wheels but you find baby carriages in America and prams in England.

 

So what then would be a "lamination peel" in numismatic terms?

 

Looks like a crack.