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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fred Weinberg, post: 2880981, member: 86437&quot;]Hate to nit-pick, but it&#039;s</p><p>an unstuck planchet, not</p><p>a blank planchet.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>(and it might be a copper-plated over zinc planchet,</p><p>but it&#039;s not clad)</p><p><br /></p><p>Blanks are those metal discs just punched</p><p>out of the planchet strip; no upset rim.</p><p><br /></p><p>Planchets are those same metal discs that</p><p>have gone thru the upsetting mill, which</p><p>gives it the upset&nbsp; Rim (for striking and stacking purposes).</p><p><br /></p><p>When I started collecting errors 60 years ago, we called</p><p>them &#039;blank planchets&#039; for years - till the proper nomenclature</p><p>took hold - since the &#039;70&#039;s, in popular use, they are either</p><p>Type 1 (no upset rim) Blanks, or Type 2 (w/upset rims) Planchets.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this helps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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