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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 158460, member: 669&quot;]LSM&#039;s suggestion makes a lot of sense to me, especially factoring in the weight discrepancy.</p><p><br /></p><p>If a defective planchet received a full strike, each side would get normal pressure and display normal characteristics.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the parts then separated, almost like splitting a piece of slate, one side would have an obverse strike, and the other would have a reverse strike.</p><p><br /></p><p>The appearance of your coin is consistent with that scenario, with the split off portion being entirely within the rims.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since such a split would result from a defect in the planchet, and not from after-mint damage, I would consider the result to be an error coin, not a damaged one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Value?&nbsp; Since it is either a one-of-a-kind, or one of a very few of a kind, there is no way to put a value on it except to auction it at a properly publicized auction attended by error collectors, and see what it brings.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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