At The Coin Show Today

Walked by a dealers table who specialized in errors. I have said before that errors are not really my thing but I saw that he had a wheat cent struck on a dime planchet and it intrigued me. It would have been a silver planchet…. He was busy with other folks so I didn’t have the chance ask him about it….. What is a coin like that valued at roughly?

 

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Here are 3 sold by Jon Sullivan on his website
Sullivan Numismatics, Inc

 

Cool, never heard of that error type before.

 

I rather figured that would have to be a four figure coin.

 

Yeah. I thought also. Hey! You could have put him in a figure four head lock and walked away with it, LOL.

 

Definitely a 4 digit coin.

 

Wrong planchets errors are one of my favorite type of errors. Here are a couple of my wrong planchet errors.

 

Nice!

Here are two from my collection


I acquired both of them from Fred Weinberg

 

Those two 1943s... wonder how many times they got spent by people thinking "oh, another one of those weird new silver pennies"?

I also wonder: which is more common, a 1943 cent struck on a copper cent planchet, or one struck on a silver dime planchet? I'm not sure the struck-on-silver error is any more common than struck-on-copper, but look at the price differential!

 

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Noooooooo!

 

Could have been an unauthorized "experiment" by a mint employee. Maybe thought, "I wonder how different a silver cent would look from a steel cent."

Mike

 

Looking at Heritage archives it seems the 1943-S struck on dime planchet is more common than struck on bronze (but still rare). Perhaps the rarest of all is this one, struck on a Peru 5 Centavo planchet! https://coins.ha.com/itm/errors/194.../a/1191-4946.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515#

Clean out those hoppers, people! OK, it was WWII, folks were distracted.

 

Hmm... wonder how common 1944 cents struck on silver are? Could be the "Poor Man's 1944 Steel Cent". OK, maybe the "Moderately Well-Off Man's..."

 

This is the only off-metal that I own. I'd like to acquire more, but it's just not in the budget right now.

 

https://www.ha.com/c/search/results...rchive&page=204~1&ic=KeywordSearch-A-K-071316
Scanning Heritage archives, "lincoln cent struck on dime planchet" occurred on a wide variety of dates, but there does seem to be a propensity for 1943, and quite a few 1944. I wonder if 1943 is seen more because the silver planchets wouldn't stand out in a bin full of zinc-plated steel.