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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 751526, member: 66&quot;]That still wouldn&#039;t fit.&nbsp; Nickel strip run through the cent blanking press would result in planchets that weigh 4.02 grams.&nbsp; Not if you rolled the nickel strip to cent thickness and then blanked it with cent punches that would do it.&nbsp; But I think we are asking for too many errors happening for that to happen.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Do you have any information on what countries the Scovill mint was making planchets for in 1902?&nbsp; (The US mint wasn&#039;t striking coins for anyone else at the time so it would have had to have been a private contract and one of the planchets got into the deliveries to the mint) And since they weren&#039;t supplying the mint with planchets in 1884 and hadn&#039;t since 1877 that still doesn&#039;t explain the 1884 off metal coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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