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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marshall, post: 1066220, member: 21705&quot;]I would like to pose a possibility to you. Consider the possibility of a large cent planchet at 10.89 grams and 29 mm getting mixed up in the half dollar planchet bin PRIOR to receiving the edge lettering. This would simply be an error (wrong planchet), rather than a counterfeit. This coin would have thinned out from a strike on softer metal and when subject to elements causing porosity, would likely be about 9 and a half grams in weight.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now softer metal would normally make me think the initial coining at normally greater pressure than a typical Cent strike would result in a stronger strike, but that is offset by a reduction of metal to fill the dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure if the castaining machines were still in use in 1831 or if they had converted to using collars to make the edge inscriptions on halves. The cents were plain edged by then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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