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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 207149, member: 669&quot;]Well, I disagree with that part of Frank&#039;s comments (and only that part).</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Missing clad&quot; involves a measurable thickness of metal which should have been, but isn&#039;t, physically bonded&nbsp; to the other metal in the coin&#039;s composition through an application of pressure.&nbsp; It results in the coin having a measurably lower weight and thickness than normal, as measured by ordinary scales and calipers.</p><p><br /></p><p>A &quot;plating error&quot;, on the other hand, involves the presence or absence of an extremely thin layer of metal chemically bonded to the main metal of the coin.&nbsp; It results in the coin having a different weight and thickness that can only be measured by highly precise scientific instruments.</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, plating errors can be highly irregular in shape, as hnickel&#039;s coin demonstrates, while cladding errors will either affect the entire coin, or possibly one relatively straight-edged portion if it came from the end of a strip of the &quot;sandwich&quot; where an outside metal didn&#039;t cover the entire length of the strip from which the planchet was cut.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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