Any expert advice on this coin? Weighs 1.76 grams, well under the expected 3.11. Error type etc? Thanks.
@coin0709 Here's a War Nickel that I have that split in half. I have both halves and it’s graded so you can compare to yours.
They are quite worn but they are part silver and during the WWII years. Coins were not saved, they circulated.
Not quite what I was saying. I used to think that a split planchet would occur fairly immediately after minting and both halves would be found in a mint bag (for example). This coin (both coins) clearly split many years after mintage. While it surely involves a poor quality planchet it is interesting the effectively the mint error only manifests itself decades after production.
Sometimes a split planchet will be in a mint bag or the same roll. Even though it’s thin a machine only recognizes it as one piece. Very rarely can the same person get both halves as coins circulated and went different ways.
