Here is an interesting one a 2006 D with a planchet error, you can still read the lettering on the edges so it's not an after mint gouged coin
Not an error. Notice the LI in liberty and IN GOD WE TRUST. The letters on a struck coin with that type of planchet wouldn't show up. That's how you can tell it wasn't in that condition when struck at the mint My best guess is that somebody melted the zinc (low melting point ) and left some of the copper plating. I did this "experiment" when I was a kid
my thought was since you can still read the lettering, it must have been punched/printed with that error, if it was damaged afterwards, the lettering would not worn or unreadable
That type of coin I can say when working at the bank, that would stop the counting machine. Would lock up so it would not have left the mint.
How would the letters strike up fully if those parts of the planchet were thin and uneven? They wouldn't. So, since the letters are fully struck, the planchet couldn't have been in that condition
I would think if it was melted at any temperature, the lettering would be uneven or even show signs that it is ran but these are very clear
FYI Not everything that looks different, strange or weird is automatically a mint error. That's a Copper plated zinc planchet with some strange post mint damage. Looks cool though. Also. Don't use the word printed in the coin minting process. There is never any ink involved in the making of coins. Ed Padilla
Minting, coining or coinage is the process of manufacturing coins using a kind of stamping, the process used in both hammered coinage and milled coinage.
All errors must be explained by how it occurred during the minting process. Just because you can't explain how the damage occurred, doesn't make it an error So, just how does a coin strike up with full letters on the very thin areas of a planchet? It can't. The dies are flat so how is metal going to flow into the the letters if the planchet isn't in contact with the die? Certainly the hardened tool style of the die doesn't warp to conform to a random planchet? If this can't occur during the minting process, it can't be an error.
