With todays technology how does a coin get out of the mint without the reverse or obverse, & how does it effect the value of the coin?
Maybe this site will allow you to describe the type of effects on the coin. They show some ground-down man made coins which we see occasionally and also a few die caps over the years. We would need to see a photo for more exact information. https://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/coins.pl?coin=20187 Jim
Sorry, I read your post as one OR the other side. Neither side would be a blank planchet that are very often available and the article says that mint representatives often give them out to scouts and other organizations as memorabilia. Jim
Haz - could you show us a picture of what you are referring to? There are absolutely ways that a coin could be made with a seemingly blank side, but they are very rare and very valuable. Far more often, when we see "blank" sides, what we are seeing is a coin with the side ground off with a machine after it left the mint. Those are obviously... less valuable.
I guess this is what they call a unistrike or something weird like that , my friend talks so fast I can't keep up with him so excited it's like an auctioneer talking
yup, where's the upset rim on the reverse. not there ... so it somehow was removed. weigh the coin. compare its weight to another one with full designs on both sides.
Only way for a coin to leave the mint with one side blank is to have two planchets enter the coining chamber at the same time. But the blank side will NOT be flat and smooth, and the struck side will be unusually bold from the higher than normal striking pressure .
And to add to my comment of yesterday, with the way the planchets are fed into the current horizontal striking presses a situation such as I described is probably impossible today.