I received this in some change today from Burger King. Is this a broad strike? Sorry the pics are so bad but my camera broke.
PMD all the way. Here's a link to a real one. http://cgi.ebay.com/2007-Uncentered...94?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item35ad926e16
With the missing rim which is formed during the setup process totally gone, it is sanded off. Which your coin is. Someone worked it over and decided to spend it. Just one of the indignities coins must suffer.
I don't really understand. If the coin is in the collar, then it would be neither a broadstrike nor an off center right?
Like I said, a coin struck in the collar is not a broadstrike. But if the planchet is in or partially in the collar and one or both dies strike the planchet off-center the resulting coin would be off-center but not a broadstrike. Modern coins are struck inside a collar. The collar does a number of things: 1) it restrains the metal as the coin is struck 2) it makes the coins uniform in diameter 3) it helps to strike up the raised features of the coin 4) it imparts an edge design on the coin - smooth (cents and nickels), reeded (dimes, quarters, halves, large dollars), lettered (golden dollars) If the coin is struck without the collar the metal will continue spreading out making the coin larger in diameter than normal, distorting the features near the edges, leaving no edge design. These things describe a broadstrike. You have to understand how coins are made to understand how errors occur. If all this sounds foreign to you do some Googling and study up on the minting process.
I do understand the minting process, but I thought that since off-centers are struck outside of the collar, that they would be considered to be broadstrikes as well. So I now understand that when a coin is struck outside of the collar with any of the design missing, it is considered to be off center. When all of the design is present, it is a broadstrike. I will Google it. And TC, your coin is PMD.
