I received ( mixed in with my tips at work last night) , an Idaho State coin, which is blank, or unpressed on one side. I don't know much about coins. Is there a value to this coin?
Good morning and welcome to CT. Most of the coins that have blank sides are PMD or post mint damage. The only way to see if this is a true error coin we would have to see pictures. Siggi
Coinmaster1 I can think of two legitimate error types that to the untrained eye would look like one side was blank. first is if two blank planchets are allowed into the press on top of each other (rare but it has happened) then one would have the obverse and the other would have the reverse, though both would be somewhat distorted. The second would be that at some point during a run of capped die errors you reach the point where the image of the reverse on the cap gets flattened and the cap hasn't been worn thin enough to asllow the die image to be transfered through it, causing the coin to be struck with a "blank" image. I guess my point is that the description the OP gave is possible and a decision can't be made without images of the coin in question unless the OP gives more details, including the accurate weight of the coin. Richard
To the OP the reason people here are asking you to weigh it is that a damaged coin will have the metal filed aaway, leaving a light coin. If the coin is full weight there is the chance it is a true mint error.
Thanks for the info, it does feel a little light and has lines which radiate from the center. Oh, well. I appreciate the info.
Don;t give up so easily with out first posting some pictures. Borrow a camera if you have to but post some pictures.
