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<p>[QUOTE="orbeus, post: 1725894, member: 53913"]That might be true, if the coin were actually silver plated. However, as I have mentioned, luster and hue are consistent with Cu/Ni and not silver. Personally, I believe that during a brief period in the late 50's, there was a design flaw in the wheat cent dies that made it possible for nickel planchets to get into the press, most likely directly above or below the retaining collar. The resulting strike would have caused the collar to clip out a penny-sized section of the planchet like a cookie cutter. I believe what we are witnessing is a form of broadstrike error that occurred when the thick nickel planchet was pressed to the thickness of a penny and the excess metal "squished" outward when pressed against the retaining collar. I understand that there are most likely several thousand late 50's wheat cents that have been plated and placed into bezels, and, if I'm right about this, maybe only a few dozen of these error coins, so the bezel theory is far more plausable in a vacuum. However, I ask you: is the scenario I have described at least feasable? And if not, perhaps you can offer some type of proof.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="orbeus, post: 1725894, member: 53913"]That might be true, if the coin were actually silver plated. However, as I have mentioned, luster and hue are consistent with Cu/Ni and not silver. Personally, I believe that during a brief period in the late 50's, there was a design flaw in the wheat cent dies that made it possible for nickel planchets to get into the press, most likely directly above or below the retaining collar. The resulting strike would have caused the collar to clip out a penny-sized section of the planchet like a cookie cutter. I believe what we are witnessing is a form of broadstrike error that occurred when the thick nickel planchet was pressed to the thickness of a penny and the excess metal "squished" outward when pressed against the retaining collar. I understand that there are most likely several thousand late 50's wheat cents that have been plated and placed into bezels, and, if I'm right about this, maybe only a few dozen of these error coins, so the bezel theory is far more plausable in a vacuum. However, I ask you: is the scenario I have described at least feasable? And if not, perhaps you can offer some type of proof.[/QUOTE]
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